Seeking a clear view of transparency
Transparent packaging for ready meals must set up and realise consumer expectations or risk failure, according to customer insight agency Engage Research.
A new range...
Innovation in the flow – wrapping up explained
Flow-wrapping equipment has been around for a long time, its core features remaining largely unchanged. But user expectations are always rising, calling for things...
Lighter, thinner, stronger
Customers have never been more environmentally aware meaning film suppliers are under constant pressure to provide the greenest solutions.
THE demands faced by the modern...
Good to ‘Go’ after switch to plastic
A frozen meal manufacturer has swapped metal for plastic in a bid to reduce costs and increase production.
COOK Trading Ltd has switched from metal...
“The tattie’s a living thing”
THIRTY-THREE years after he first founded Agritronix, Alan Peebles still works seven days a week. Priding himself on his reliability, his loyalty and his...
Compostable packaging takes seed in the capital
INSPIRED by a simple cornstarch spoon, Joe Frankel is now the Managing Director of the fourth fastest growing firm in Scotland. The founder of...
Growing Bump
DURING her final year as an industrial design student at Brunel University, Solveiga Pakstaite developed a unique new label design that could now revolutionise...
Neuropackaging: the way into the shopping basket is via the brain
Incorporating modern brain research into packaging design
Packaging is not there just to protect food and beverages from light, air or bacteria.
It also ensures products...
Retro brand is born again
The renaissance of one of Poland’s most memorable fruit juice brands has been inspired by the development of new glass packaging.
AFTER several years in...
Robot palletisers with bags of versatility
Following a recent surge in enquiries from food packers for versatile palletisers, FANUC UK is working with automation specialists Festo and Pacepacker to develop...
