A bespoke jar for Belgian spice brand ISFI: With its unique neck finish, the jar accommodates two different types of cap. This allowed ISFI to avoid having to purchase two sets of neck equipment for the same jar.

A material with clear advantages? Lynn Sidebottom’s guide to glass

Glass seems to have a bright future in packaging. Lynn Sidebottom of Beatson Clark looks at its properties and some of the capabilities to...

Reaping the benefits of seasonal packaging

SANTA Claus; snowmen; the Easter Bunny; pumpkins; bats; witches; ghosts and ghouls are all old favourites when it comes to seasonal branding on packaging....

Medical technology event is in great health

Med-Tech Innovation Expo is the UK and Ireland’s leading showcase for medical design and manufacturing technology - the only event serving the whole of...

Packaging designers of the future to be showcased at Pro2Pac

Pro2Pac 2015 has announced the return of its hugely successful Student Packaging Design Challenge. Pro2Pac is challenging design students from Leeds Beckett University to design...

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...

Flexible carton packs are filled with advantages

SIG Combibloc now offers an additional long life food packaging option with its heat-resistant combisafe carton pack, to flexibly fill food products such as...

London event the ‘perfect platform’ to discover latest developments

PACKAGING Innovations and Luxury Packaging London 2019 return to the Olympia on September 11 and 12 this year.  James Drake-Brockman, divisional director of Easyfairs’...

The evolution of product coding for brand protection

By Steve Tallant, director, market development, at Markem-Imaje THE barcode – a ubiquitous mark on almost all products, in every region of the world. Since...

Packaging tech and the future of food waste

Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, discusses how the latest developments in state-of-the-art product packaging are playing an instrumental role in reducing food waste TO...

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...
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