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...
Are you FMD-ready?
Pharmaceutical manufacturers must now comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) which is aimed at reducing the number of falsified medicines infiltrating the European...
Real recycling – why governments must rise to the circularity challenge in the 2020s...
By Marcel Arsand, Ball sustainability manager and chairman of The Can Makers
IN THE DECADE ahead forward-thinking cities like New York are set to put a...
From creativity to reality: the technical expertise underpinning paper packaging renaissance
By Genevieve Scullion, senior technical specialist at James Cropper Paper & Packaging
PAPER has been a vessel of creativity for thousands of years. Poems, plays,...
Don’t underestimate the green power of plastic
By Paula Birch, global sales director, Parkside
FLEXIBLE plastic packaging delivers significant sustainability benefits. Aside from protecting and preserving goods, it also requires significantly fewer...
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...
Time to get into peak condition
Peak season will soon be upon us, but how will e-commerce businesses cope when labour is hard to find? Now is the time to...
The future of packaging is not more packaging
By Matt Boyle, sales director, food & retail, Europe, Metsä Board
IF there is one thing I hear repeatedly in conversations with food and retail...
Avoid the void
By Jo Bradley, business development manager for automated packing solutions at Neopost Shipping
BOXES, beads and bubble wrap provide hours of innocent enjoyment for kittens,...
Evolving tradition: preserving colour for six generations
By Mark Cropper, chairman of James Cropper
FOR as long as humans have existed, we’ve been using colour to express ourselves.
Social interactions have evolved, whole...
