All Comment articles – Page 37
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ArticleThe Challenge of Creating a "Net Positive" Supply System
Rolf Stangl, chief executive at SIG Combibloc, explores the role packaging companies can play to build zero carbon and circular economy solutions.
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ArticleSize matters
Pete Hayes, Co-founder and Director, PB Creative design agency discusses how to give a small pack a big punch.
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ArticleWhy traceability in food production is also a profit opportunity
Traceability in the food supply chain can do more than safeguard against potential disasters, particularly at the processing stage. Geoff Furniss, Head of BBC Technologies within TOMRA, explains how.
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ArticleExploring Sustainable Omnichannel Strategies
Luca Cerani, Sealed Air VP of Marketing and Portfolio, EMEA talks to Packaging Europe about sustainability solutions and ways to tackle the omnichannel challenge.
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ArticlePackaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London Set to Return for Tenth Year
As Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London 2019 prepares to return to the Olympia on 11 & 12 September, James Drake-Brockman, Divisional Director of Easyfairs’ Packaging Portfolio, discusses plans for the show.
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ArticleReplacing Plastic: Food for Thought
Russell Watson, a product inspection specialist with Mettler-Toledo, explores the wider implications of plastics packaging replacement.
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ArticleThe white stuff
Consumer appetite for milk looks set to remain steady in Europe over the coming years, but reliable and secure containers will have to play a critical role for the dairy sector’s continued success.
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ArticleDiscussing Challenges and Solution across the Plastics Value Chain
The EU has set a series of very ambitious, and at the same time necessary, targets by 2030. All plastic packaging on the EU market must be reusable or cost-effectively recycled.
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ArticleThe Post Plastic Waste Era
Hugh Ross, CEO of Petainer explores refillable bottles (RefPET) as a stepping stone towards a zero-wate economy.
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ArticleMultiple Routes toward Sustainability
PepsiCo VP (and Sustainability Awards judge) Chris Daly spoke to Tim Sykes about the environmental challenges for packaged goods and the need to follow a multi-dimensional, long-term roadmap to meet them.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... The world’s changing – is industry listening?
Haulwen Nicholas (founder of the Packaging Oracle) argues that the current leadership of the packaging world need to make space for a new generation
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ArticleGermany’s new Packaging Act: Manufacturers need to become proactive
Gunda Rachut, Chair of Germany’s Central Packaging Registry (ZSVR), explains why the “new” Packaging Act is not really all that new and should not bring any real surprises. In this interview she explains why.
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ArticleInnovations in smart packaging indicators: Life made easy
Smart packaging innovations are going to disrupt a lot of traditional packaging techniques. Packaging that incorporates advanced technologies to provide enhanced functionality compared to conventional packaging can be considered smart.
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ArticleWorking towards solving the circular economy challenge
SYSTEMIQ is a B corporation created in 2016 to drive achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement by transforming markets and business models in three key economic systems: land use, materials and energy.
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ArticleFuture proofing the pharma supply chain
Rich Quelch, Global Head of Marketing, Origin discusses the implications of an inefficient suppy chain.
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ArticleDemand for corrugated: could growing reach of China create European waste mountains?
In what looks like an unintended consequence, China’s recent ban on importing rubbish for recycling looks set to have an impact on the European corrugated waste market.
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ArticleFour growth opportunities for packaging in Europe
To find new revenue in a saturated market, Europe’s packaging firms will need to innovate and diversify their product portfolios. Smithers Pira’s analysis identifies the following four growth opportunities for the next five years and beyond
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ArticleOn the Need for a Fundamental E-Think
Smurfit Kappa’s Gérard van den Boogaard discusses the mind-boggling array of variables presented by e-commerce, overturning almost all of the suppositions that have served logistics and tertiary packaging well until now.
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ArticleCEFLEX: Transformative Collaboration in Flexibles
For 2 years CEFLEX worked quietly on mapping a flexibles circular economy. Now it's ready to share its detailed vision and direction of travel. Tim Sykes was privileged as the first journalist to attend its general meeting – and left deeply impressed
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ArticleThe digitalisation of food palletising
The technological and social revolutions of the past few decades have completely reshaped industry. The food packaging and palletising industry is no exception.