Major UK retailer becomes founding member of packaging recycling scheme

RECYCLING technology specialist Polytag has announced retailer M&S as a founding member of its Polytag Ecotrace Programme, an initiative designed to optimise the tracing...

Bottler pays price for forklift fiasco

A BOTTLING firm has had to fork out more than £20,000 after a worker was filmed being lifted on the prongs of a forklift...
Macfarlane Group

Macfarlane trading ‘broadly in line’ with market expectations

PROTECTIVE packaging specialist Macfarlane Group has posted interim financial results for the first six months of 2024, which revealed an 8% dip in revenue...
OMRON TM25S

OMRON adds to S-Series collaborative robot family

OMRON has expanded its S-Series collaborative robot family with the launch of the OMRON TM25S. The solution is said to combine greater payload capacity, extended...
LOOP pallets

Scottish firms offered financial incentive for returned pallets

CONSTRUCTION, housebuilding, and builders’ merchants across Scotland can claim a share of more than £1.5 million by returning bright green LOOP pallets for reuse. That’s...
Electric articulated lorry

Macfarlane increases revenue by 11% in ‘difficult year’ for group

PROTECTIVE packaging specialist Macfarlane Group has reported an 11% rise in revenue to £300.8 million in its preliminary financial results for 2025. Operating profit is...
Toby Bridges, centre, with members of the NBT team, Joel Hodgson and Luke Feilden.

North east firm targets growth

NBT GROUP is on target to double its turnover by 2015 with an new growth strategy and image for its new generation of customers. Established...
University of Strathclyde cans turned into art

Used cans at University of Strathclyde recycled into artwork

USED drinks cans at the University of Strathclyde have been repurposed into a piece of art as part of a project to encourage people...

‘Value for all’ is key to deposit return in Scotland

THE Scottish public is to have its say on a deposit return scheme (DRS) after the Scottish Government recently officially opened a public consultation...

New Ishida range takes checkweighers to ‘the next level’

ISHIDA Europe has announced it is launching a new range of checkweighers tipped to take the machines to 'the next level'. The Ishida DACS-GN platform...