Setting a new benchmark

GARÇON Wines is looking to “revolutionise” home delivery with a new bottle capable of fitting through a letterbox. The packaging designer and wine wholesaler has...

Compostable polymers challenge plastics debate

What are we doing about plastic wrapped consumer goods? With the use of polypropylene films under attack, sales and marketing director Tony McDonald of...
Shrink (left) and stretch (right) hooders, in this case the OMSAT53 and IS43 respectively (both from Gordian Strapping)

Stretch and shrink hooding: Approaches compared

Stretch hooding and shrink hooding are used to package palletised products of all kinds, from building materials to food and beverages. Gordian Strapping offers...

Endoline helps puts Ballygarvey on the map

Following the installation of their most high spec, flexible systems to date Endoline Machinery has assisted a UK egg producer in operating one of...
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Orange crush on the rocks?

Could new technology help fruit producers solve a long-standing conundrum? THE packing of netted citrus fruits into trays, crates and cartons is particularly prone to...

Mixed bag: debate rages over 5p bag charge

As shoppers in Scotland get to grips with the 5p charge on carrier bags, we ask two men on opposing sides of the debate...

Hidden ways to reduce your liability for the Plastics Tax

Bernard Sellars, MD of Lindum Packaging, explains the efficiencies that can reduce your liability by cutting ‘hidden plastic’ WITH so many consumers believing plastic is...

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...

Innovation at the heart of UK’s biggest packaging event

THE UK’s leading packaging show, Packaging Innovations, running alongside Label&Print and Empack, will be opening its doors in less than a week, on 25 & 26 February...
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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