Jo Bradley

Smoothing the curve for peak performance

E-commerce fulfilment is prone to frequent and often dramatic spikes in demand, and this causes retailers significant challenges in the packing area. How can...

Plastic Packaging Tax is coming: how ready are you?

The Plastic Packaging Tax is due to come into force in April 2022. Here, Jason Poxon, Antalis’ packaging technologist manager, explores what the new...
Technologist ensures quality in puff pastry bun manufacturing process

Solving frozen food inspection challenges with x-ray technology

By Adam Green, market manager, Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray FROZEN food production lines move fast, with ready meals, bags of vegetables or rows of patties passing...

Pandemic accelerates automation plans in injection moulding

By Nigel Flowers, managing director Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK The pandemic has amplified the focus on productivity and forced injection moulding decision makers to reconsider...

Why digitalisation is crucial to contract packing

PROMOTIONAL FEATURE Josephine Coombe, Managing Director of Nulogy in Europe, champions the importance of digitalisation for contract packing, manufacturing and logistics firms, to bolster operational...

Taking your carton packaging from tired to inspired

By Stephen Shortland, managing director at New Vision Packaging Limited Chances are, when you read the word 'cartonboard', your first thoughts conjure up images of...

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...

The medication lifecycle

Once medication is packaged, a wealth of regulations become applicable, including NICE guidelines and General Pharmaceutical Council standards of conduct. Here, Dale Pittock, sales...

Unpacking sustainability

Hugh Lightbody, chief officer of the Business Gateway National Unit, explains that help is available for businesses looking to invest in more sustainable packaging...

GS1-128 barcodes – setting the standard now and into the future

Greg Kasprzak, senior product marketing manager for drop-on-demand printing lines at Markem-Imaje, explains how barcode evolution and deployment is adapting to modern market demands BARCODES...