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Coding with a conscience

Steve Ryan, UK sales manager at Rotech Machines, explains how coding can become a source of advantage in an age of heightened environmental awareness With...

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...
Mettler-Toledo X2 Series - X12

Perfection ready: the inspection tech keeping ready meals safer, compliant and delicious

By Miriam Krechlok, segment marketing manager, Mettler-Toledo Ready meals today offer more than just convenience. From dehydrated noodles to sauced pasta dishes and frozen lasagne,...

Outsourcing comes of age

Emma Verkaik, membership & marketing director of the BCMPA, the Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment & Logistics, predicts the already growing role that...
Tom Bouchier

UK manufacturing can climb even higher with automation

By Tom Bouchier, managing director, FANUC UK Data just released by Make UK reveals that UK manufacturing has overtaken France to claim eighth place in...

CBD manufacturers have a responsibility to label products correctly

By Steve Brownett Gale of Lifestyle Packaging The results of a study recently revealed 92% of CBD products contain less than advertised, with just 8%...

How robots are set to shape the future of food manufacturing

By Paul Carter, sales manager system automation – robotics, FANUC UK FOR decades, robots have been helping to increase production efficiency, improve quality and consistency,...

Making FMCG manufacturing more sustainable through intelligent energy management

By Patricia Torres, industry marketing manager food and commodities solutions, OMRON Industrial Automation Europe Some factory managers take the view that ‘if it ain’t broke,...

Changing consumer shopping habits is no excuse to overlook packaging sustainability

Wouter van Tol, head of government, community affairs and sustainability at DS Smith, tells Packaging Scotland how firms can maintain packaging sustainability aspirations while...

The future of food packaging

From your favourite childhood sweets to your perfect bottle of wine, food and beverage packaging can be as evocative as the food itself. But...