Sector must do more to encourage women
THE packaging industry has historically been seen as a male dominated sector – but times are changing.
An organisation called Women in Packaging UK...
Buying by the scoop: the rise of unpackaged grocery shopping
As a business model, selling groceries loose isn’t a new- fangled approach. It’s what market stalls have done for decades. Farm shops, food cooperatives...
Fresh calls for skills gap to be addressed
The plastics and packaging industry is going through a period of growth at the moment with a plethora of M&A activity. However, one of...
Innovation is key to ICE success story
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Since launching in 2001, Interactive Coding Equipment (ICE) has become one of the country’s leading suppliers of digital coding and labelling solutions for products...
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...
A time and a place for luxury
Packaging Innovations London returns to the Design Centre in Islington in September, this time co-located with a new show, Luxury Packaging, intended to provide...
When the going gets Tuf
When you think of shrink wrapping you’re more likely to think of various types of food and clothing packaging than scaffolding and machine parts ...
A healthy turnout expected in Birmingham for Med-Tech Innovation Expo
DEDICATED medical device design and manufacturing technology event, Med-Tech Innovation Expo, is back for 2019 and will be setting up shop in Birmingham for...
Pro2Pac student design challenge winner announced
Pro2Pac 2015 has announced the winner of its Student Packaging Design Challenge.
Joe Hollingworth was judged to be the winner for his ‘Fresh Pack’ design, which...
Is packaging making or breaking your store conversion rates?
By Joe Simons, director and investor at Gap Systems
What is it that secures a sale? Online, many would say that fulfilment is a deal...
