Andy Thomas-Emans, strategic director at Informa Markets Labels & Packaging Group

Folding cartons come to Labelexpo Europe

From this year Labelexpo Europe will be expanded to include folding carton technology. Andy Thomas-Emans, strategic director at Informa Markets Labels & Packaging Group,...
James Cropper's paper mill

The innovation within: lessons from 180 years of papermaking

Gareth Fisher, sales director at James Cropper Paper & Packaging, discusses lessons learned from the firm’s 180 years of papermaking THERE’S no substitute for experience. It’s...
Winfried Muehling

Listen to the consumer to beat ‘plastic pollution’

By Winfried Muehling, marketing & communications director, Pro Carton WORLD Environment Day, on 5th June 2023, is a worldwide campaign calling for global solutions to combat...
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...

Thinking out the box: unpacking the potential of smart packaging

Here, Dale Pittock, sales director of pharmacy consumables provider Valley Northern, explores the latest developments in the smart packaging market. Imagine if a packet of...

Food fraud: taking action to preserve public trust

By Mike Seed, IRMS sales and product manager, Elementar UK THE Covid-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for the food industry. From reduced consumer demand...

Why values are important to Scottish packaging companies

By Louise Findlay-Wilson, MD of Energy PR When I first worked with packaging companies some 30 years ago, I was struck by the huge focus...

Compostability and barrier performance: a match made in packaging heaven

By Mark Shaw, new product development technical manager at Parkside A significant shift in consumer environmental awareness is driving continuous innovation in the high barrier...

Digital age heralds new era of packaging innovation

By Clodagh Hurrell, head of business EMEA at XDS Brand WHILE packaging has been around for hundreds of years, it has evolved and changed to...
Richard Daley

The truth about plastic and chemical recycling

THE Blue Planet II effect may well have become shorthand for growing public desire to tackle plastic pollution of the natural environment, but as one of the most versatile materials at our disposal continues to be demonised, there is a real risk of blinding ourselves to the opportunities that already exist which can help to solve the problem.