The hidden link between food safety and waste reduction
Food safety and waste reduction are becoming closely aligned as food manufacturers embrace traceability, connected packaging, and 2D codes powered by GS1 to protect...
Neural networks: the artificial additive that is missing in vegetable processing
By Paul Wilson, MD, Scorpion Vision Ltd
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arrived in the fresh produce industry and the results are astounding: waste associated with...
PFAS-free: challenges and clarity ahead of deadline
With the countdown to the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation underway, packaging professionals across the UK and beyond are taking a closer look...
Sustainable challenges for closures
Darren Dodd, service and marketing director at Selig, discusses how the environmental agenda is bringing into question how beverage companies use packaging seals in...
Automation adapts to sustainable packaging
By Patricia Torres, industry marketing manager food and commodities, OMRON Europe
Have you ever ordered a small item online, and then felt incensed when it...
Plastic shows it can be a force for good
Plastic has made an important contribution to the fight against the coronavirus but to continue to make the best of its many benefits will...
Logistics companies thinking outside the box on automation
With margins under pressure and labour in short supply, forward-thinking logistics service providers are taking a new, radical approach to winning business using flexible...
DS Smith vows to keep innovating in 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, Ashwin Moorthy, head of design & innovation at DS Smith, tells Packaging Scotland about the key trends, challenges...
PPWR marks a new chapter for circular packaging in Europe
As the first measures of the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) take effect from August 12, Horst Bittermann, director general of Pro...
Think your contract packing or manufacturing operations are digitalised? Perhaps it’s time to think...
Josephine Coombe, Managing Director of Nulogy in Europe, highlights how many contract packers rely on inflexible legacy systems and processes that are unable to deliver the wider opportunities that true digitalisation delivers.
