Amipak has installed a £200k Brausse folding and glueing machine from ipack solutions, to meet demand for its growing range of carton packaging for its food-to-go and out-of-home sectors.
AIPIA, the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association has announced it is postponing its China Summit, due to be held in Shanghai in April, due to concerns about Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China and many other regions.
Sirane threw the spotlight on its eco-friendly Earth Packaging when presenter and environmental campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall interviewed MD Simon Balderson at the company’s headquarters in Telford, UK, this month.
DS Smith has opened a Box Manufacturing Plant in Lebanon, Indiana, creating 170 jobs, to meet a growing demand for more sustainable packaging and a reduction of shipping costs across the US.
Jamie Mitchell, key account director of Brammer Buck & Hickman, a leading supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul products and services, discusses the pros and cons of implementing an MRO consolidator and what value the onsite service has for...
Sappi Europe has launched recyclable multifunctional packaging for nut and fruit bars, which will be on display at Interpack tradeshow in Dussledorf, Germany in May.
Tetra Pak has partnered with Mirakl to launch a food and beverage Virtual Marketplace, claiming it makes it easier to purchase products and will ‘change how buyers and sellers operate’.
Nestlé will invest up to CHF 2bn to create a wider market for food-grade recycled plastics and will reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third as part of efforts to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.
The world’s first cookies baked in microgravity by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been sent to Earth to be analysed by scientists.
Unilever has launched a recyclable polypropylene (PP) mono-material in Turkey for Knorr dry soup powder, produced at Mondi’s Turkish flexible packaging plant in Kalenobel.
Brighter Foods, which makes a million bars a day for clients in the slimming, sport, organic, Free From and other niche categories, has partnered with Loma Systems to install an X5C X-ray inspection machine.
Stora Enso is merging its container board business in the Packaging Solutions division with the Consumer Board division to create a Packaging Materials division, effective January 2020.
Dubbed a ‘mega-trend’ in 2010, heighted consumer awareness in gut-health continues to significantly influence product development and reformulation, says Katrien Lambeens, product manager at Beneo.
Constantia Flexibles has opened Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad, the world’s first plant designed to produce more sustainable and recyclable flexible packaging in India, focusing on its environmentally-friendly packaging EcoLam.
Equipment manufacturers are investing ‘huge sums in R&D’ to enable bakers boost operational efficiency and develop application-specific products to meet exacting consumer demands, according to Global Market Insights.
A group of European scientists have successfully made gluten free bread using a technique called Ohmic heating (OH), in which the bread itself is a conductor for electricity.
The Battle Creek, Michigan-headquartered cereal giant is surging forward with its aim to fully convert to reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging around the world by 2025.
The global ingredients supplier has opened its $1.5m Bakery Innovation Centre – designed to inspire innovation in the bakery sector – at its headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, US.
Single-use foodservice packaging is increasingly being defined by the sustainability agenda, creating opportunities for innovative materials and formats that can match the performance of existing pack designs with a lower carbon footprint.
Today’s industry buzzwords are clean label, automation and sanitary design, but the biggest challenge for the global bakery equipment industry is its workforce.
The American Bakers Association (ABA) was among 13 trade groups that asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use discretion in its initial enforcement of updated labeling rules – set for January 1, 2020.
Innovia Films and German snack manufacturer Wildcorn have collaborated to develop a fully recyclable and sustainable pack for Wildcorn’s organic popcorn range.
Active packaging, intelligent packaging and smart packaging are often used interchangeably to denote packaging that’s been designed to cope with a more demanding landscape. But, strictly speaking, UK researchers claim each has its own unique base of technologies,...
Total Corbion PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) has undergone a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCA) - printed in the Journal of Polymers and the Environment - confirming its low carbon footprint.
Researchers at the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) US, have developed a spray-on ink that can change colors, designs, and patterns when zapped with different wavelengths...
‘There is a trend for plastic packaging acquisitions despite all the bad rap for plastic, and that’s despite companies such as DS Smith turning towards Amazon,’ claims Nick Mockett, head of packaging M&A, Moorgate Capital.
ABB Distribution Solutions has redesigned its low-voltage switchgear to launch NeoGear across Europe in 2020, following trials in Switzerland and China.
The bakery category continues to be a top driver of consumer grocery store trips, however, the industry is increasingly feeling the pressure of costly government overreach, while trying to build and retain the talent pool of skilled workers.
The $30m Near Zero-Emission Freight Facility Project will swap diesel for zero- and near-zero emission freight at its 500k-square-foot facility in Modesto.
The equipment supplier spent more than two years developing an online portal for customers to have 24/7 access to 3D renderings of system parts and service support information.
The almond processor held an opening ceremony for the expansion of its now-52,000-square-foot facility in September, which houses an integrated line for processing whole nuts and dry roasting.
The baking ingredients company has leveraged its food science expertise to complement its parent company’s commercial reach. We spoke to both companies at the International Baking Industry Expo (IBIE) about what’s trending in bakery, and it reaches beyond...
Marjolein Regelink, international regulatory advisor at food labelling compliance expert Ashbury Labelling, looks at the challenges of labeling snack products like vegan chocolate.
Mondi, BASF and COROOS, a European company in the preservation of fruits, vegetables and pulses have produced a stand-up pouch that is safe for food contact, partly made with raw material, derived from chemically recycled plastic.
‘Your guess is as good as mine on Brexit’, said Joseph Muscat, the Prime Minster of Malta, at the opening of the ECMA Congress 2019 last week (September 19-20), ‘But what is obvious, is during the next few days there needs to be a meaningful engagement’.
