How packaging frustration is forcing some to seek inspiration

By Sarah Rutland, market development manager at Filtrona Tapes Are you finding yourself exasperated with battling packaging that you just cannot open? Well, you are not...

Packaging fit for the future

By Rob Carle, DS Smith e-commerce team E-COMMERCE is growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and has resulted in huge demand for packaging...
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Importing goods after Brexit – what have we learnt and what’s to come in...

By Jim Hardisty, MD of Goplasticpallets.com AT the start of 2021, the political landscape across Europe changed. It was the start of a new era...

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...

Pandemic accelerates automation plans in injection moulding

Nigel Flowers, MD of Sumitomo Demag UK, explores the impact of the pandemic on automation trends within the injection moulding sector THE pandemic has amplified...

The revolutionary potential of the circular economy

By Sandy Dhesi, commercial manager at Ecoveritas  The #CircularEconomy is in full swing — no longer a niche, fuzzy concept. Everyone is looking into it:...

Covid-19: Developing a food service business continuity plan

As Bunzl has been nominated by the UK Home Office as a ‘critical supplier’, Tri-Star Managing Director Alex Noake looks at the effects of...

The packaging trends shaping the future of pharma

By Erwin Klünder, head of sales  - healthcare & flexibles at Graphic Packaging MANY surveys have shown that consumers want to make more sustainable purchasing...

Takeaway packs that do more than curry favour

By Daniel Schwitzer, director of communications & sustainability, amipak WE’VE all ordered our favourite cuisine from a local restaurant but found it cold when it...
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Navigating the information age: combating misinformation and prioritising transparency

Lifestyle Packaging’s Steve Brownett-Gale discusses combating packaging industry misinformation and prioritising consumer transparency ADVANCEMENTS in technology have made information so readily available it has become...