Innovation is key to ICE success story

ADVERTORIAL 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...

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...
crowd of people in NEC

Carbon debate takes centre stage at NEC

ANOTHER successful Packaging Innovations exhibition is in the books. Taking place in late February in Birmingham, just before coronavirus wreaked havoc with trade shows across the UK and beyond, more than 300 exhibitors showed off their latest solutions and innovations at the busy event.
Erema’s Corema system can turn plastic recyclate into a filtered melt which then goes directly to a co-rotating twin-screw extruder

Plastics recycling progress

While the plastics industry traditionally gave little thought to recycling, by 1991 the issue had moved into the spotlight with the emergence of new...
Holographic images can be used to great effect.

War on fakers is the real deal

The black market in counterfeit goods is an ever-present threat. Stephen Clarke takes a closer look. A RECENT survey by Dr Graham Jackson, editor of...
Packaging that talks

Loud and clear

Packaging that ‘talks’ is one of many ground-breaking ideas that could revolutionise the industry. SOLUTIONS that link products and digital product info are becoming ever...
McLaren Directors

Family values at heart of Scots success story

FINDING new ways to do things differently is the mantra which has been at the heart of McLaren Packaging’s approach to business for four...

Leveraging technology to meet premiumisation demand

Josephine Coombe, MD of Nulogy in Europe, identifies how brands and co-packers have reacted to the challenges of the past year and are using...

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...

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...