Peebles bottling firm gears up for expansion
PROVIDER of bottling and packaging solutions Evolution BPS is set to further expand its team this year by taking on its first engineering apprentice.
The...
Finding flat flakes in foods
LAST year Fortress Technology unveiled a metal detector that inspects low profile, high value foods vertically and horizontally concurrently to achieve the 'highest sensitivity...
The innovation within: lessons from 180 years of papermaking
Gareth Fisher, sales director at James Cropper Paper & Packaging, discusses lessons learned from the firm’s 180 years of papermaking
THERE’S no substitute for experience.
It’s...
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...
Plastic pallet advances open up opportunities for drinks sector
PLASTIC beverage pallets can help companies reduce both costs and breakages.
That’s the view of Goplasticpallets.com, who said that with the drinks industry busier than...
Automatic for the people?
Robots are often blamed for forcing humans onto the dole queue but new evidence suggests automation in sectors like food and drink may be...
EU: should we stay or should we go?
Millions of Britons will cast their vote on June 23 on the UK’s membership of the European Union. Packaging Scotland’s Gary Moug finds out...
Paris exhibition set to be a work of art
ADF&PCD and PLD Paris 2020 is set to bring together three distinct yet complementary events.Â
PCD, which initially launched in 2001, is dedicated to the...
Removing the sticking point
The desire to increase speed and accuracy is at the heart of every labelling project.
LABEL printing and verification is increasingly high-tech and the onus...
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...
