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Co-creation: when vision meets precision in every sheet

By Stephanie Walker, head of technical at James Cropper CREATIVITY is often thought of as the product of a single, gifted person. Think of the...

Five ways to boost e-commerce packaging performance

By Jo Bradley, business development manager for packaging solutions at Quadient THE Centre for Retail Research expects e-commerce sales in Western Europe (UK, Germany, France,...
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The gift instinct: why luxury packaging is hardwired into human emotion

By Paul Hamilton, head of sales & marketing at Hunter Luxury WHEN the Voyager spacecraft were sent on a mission to explore alien worlds billions...

Packaging’s data evolution: from simple wrapper to sophisticated data carrier

The concept of product packaging has evolved from humble beginnings as a plain, loose wrapper, to a sophisticated, branded and data-marked means of providing...

Walking wisely into a new era of packaging compliance

By Andrew McCaffery, chief strategy officer at Ecoveritas There’s a proverb that states: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to...

Creating a ‘green by default’ agenda for packaging

Naomi Stewart from Packaging Innovations & Empack organiser Easyfairs, explains why the promise of a ‘sustainable future’ creates many questions that can only be...

Slashing waste with induction heat seals

According to the latest Food Waste Roadmap Report from WRAP, achieving the shared ‘Courtauld 2030 and UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3’ targets to...
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Go hail plastics!

Jim Hardisty, managing director of Goplasticpallets.com, explains why we need to stop demonising plastics but rather celebrate those who are innovating with this material, just...

Top 10 reasons for visiting Foodex 2023

THERE'S less than a week to go before the doors open for Foodex Manufacturing Solutions 2023, which returns to the NEC, Birmingham from April...

Combating rising costs in carton applications

By Neil Gruettner, business development manager, vision inspection, Mettler-Toledo Carton applications are the backbone of diverse industries, from the comforting aroma of freshly baked biscuits...