Brand protection: Ramping up your food safety strategy

Consumer perceptions and a high profile product recall can make or break a food brand. The damage, if left unchecked, can come back and haunt...
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New innovation keeps customers connected

PRODUCT packaging accessed using mobile phones may sound like a strange concept, but one Internet of Things (IoT) firm insists such connected packaging is the future.

Can-do attitude for iced coffee specialist

AN iced coffee brand that racked up over one million views after posting a tongue-in-cheek rap song online is set to transition its packaging...

The rum makers with ambition in their arsenal

A group of friends who have travelled the world together – from America to Tartan Army football trips – have revealed ambitious plans of...
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New technology and top content on show at TCT

More than 10,000 professionals are expected to attend this year’s TCT Show, the design-to-manufacturing event

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...

Raising a glass to stylish designs

GLASS packaging specialist Croxsons has been supplying a broad base of clients with primary packaging and closures for nearly 150 years.  Eden Mill is Scotland’s...

Don’t ignore the materials that are already available

Tony Hitchin of Pro Carton – the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers – tells Packaging Scotland why choosing environmentally-friendly packaging materials does...
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Time for a spring clean?

Tired and worn-out machinery can become the stuff of nightmares ROBOT sales have increased by a dramatic 68% over the last year, according to...

Ergonomics in food packaging

ABOUT as useful as a chocolate teapot. We’ve all heard the phrase — probably from a disgruntled spouse when we’re being a little uncooperative....