Food & Drink

Find out the latest food and drink news from the packaging industry

Kettle Chips unveils festive packaging

KETTLE Chips has unveiled the festive packaging that it will be introducing across eight of its core range of sharing packets of crisps from...

Food waste issues – can packaging play a part?

By Mark Shaw, new product development technical manager, Parkside FOOD waste is attracting significant attention around the globe and with good reason. Food waste is...

Costa Coffee releases reusable festive range

COSTA Coffee has unveiled a new range of reusable coffee cups and Christmas decorations that pay homage to their iconic red takeaway cups. The new...

Highland Spring launches its most sustainable eco pack to date

HIGHLAND Spring Group has launched what has been described as its most sustainable eco pack to date. Using Coveris' Duralite R film, which is a...

Asda to scrap plastic fruit bags after 30,000 reusable bags sold each week during...

ASDA has announced it is to remove 101 million pieces of single use plastic from its store each year by switching to reusable fruit...

Iceland launches paperboard packaging for its Pink Lady apples

ICELAND has launched plastic-free packaging for its Pink Lady apples, in what it says is a UK supermarket first. The new paperboard packaging will replace...

Famous brewery benefits from new pallet wrapping solution

YORKSHIRE Packaging Systems (YPS) has announced the business has installed a turntable pallet wrapping machine at the famous Black Sheep Brewery in Masham. The brewery...

Isle of Harris Distillery launches refill service

THE Isle of Harris Gin Distillery has launched a refill service to allow customers the option of reusing their award-winning gin bottle. The initiative has...

New prepacked food labelling legislation to take effect from 1 October

From 1 October 2021 the way in which businesses label food and drink prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) will change.

Graham’s adopts new cardboard-thermoformed plastic solution for yoghurt brand

GRAHAM'S, The Family Dairy, has made its Skyr yoghurt cups more sustainable after teaming up with Greiner Packaging. Greiner has been supplying Graham’s with packaging...