Rethinking Materials

26 Jul 2024 --- Ishida’s multihead weighing technology is supporting Swiss pasta manufacturer Pasta Premium with growing sales and a move to paper bags, with three new Ishida weighers for... Read More

26 Jul 2024 --- This week in industry news, Saica Group acquired a subsidiary of Schumacher Packaging and Sappi Europe improved its flexible packaging papers division. Meanwhile, UK train operating... Read More

25 Jul 2024 --- Diageo’s spirit tourism experience Johnnie Walker Princes Street is launching Johnnie Walker x Scott Naismith, a generative AI powered experience that allows guests to... Read More

24 Jul 2024 --- The packaging industry competes with many other sectors for metal supplies, leaving the industry with potential supply bottlenecks brought on by mounting geopolitical instability... Read More

24 Jul 2024 --- DS Smith has invested more than €50 million (US$54 million) in its packaging facilities in Portugal throughout the last three years. The investments in Portugal include... Read More

22 Jul 2024 --- Earlier this month, Robert Taylor, sustainability director at UPM Raflatac spoke at a Pentawards Meet in London about challenges with sustainable packaging design. We discuss these challenges, including the impacts of the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and its impact on the UK’s industry with Taylor.

17 Jul 2024 --- We speak to Riccardo Castagnetti, the executive director for strategic marketing at Sealed Air’s Food Vertical division, following the company’s annual Packforum event. Held in Passirana di Rho, Milan, Italy, the event showcased Sealed Air’s latest developments and trends. Castagnetti tells about the show’s main highlights. 

20 Jun 2024 --- Johann Kaiser, CEO at Yangi, shares insights on the supplier’s expanded dry-formed food packaging portfolio. Cellera, Yangi’s dry-forming manufacturing technology, is currently up and running in its new 3,000 square meter “state-of-the-art” production facility in Varberg, Sweden.

19 Jun 2024 --- We speak to Paul Foulkes-Arellano, circularity consultant at Circuthon Consulting, about his recent book, “Materials and Sustainability: Building a Circular Future.” He describes how his research began, the book’s findings and what the packaging industry can learn. 

17 Jun 2024 --- Quadpack talks to Personal Care Insights at Cosmetic Business in Munich, Germany, about its desire to deliver new, innovative and versatile dispensing solutions to clients. Category specialist Alejandra Isern explains why skin care packaging is Quadpack’s core business and showcases the company’s range of makeup packaging components.