All Comment articles – Page 40
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ArticlePreparing PIs for Post EU-FMD Success
Ian Haynes, Director of Excellis Europe explains how the company’s unique approach to enabling collaboration between Parallel Importers is helping simplify the transition to serialisation post EU-FMD.
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ArticleEnvisioning a Better Planet
As the world wrestles with the relationship of packaging to the environment, Smurfit Kappa has been rethinking its own engagement with sustainability. Arco Berkenbosch speaks about the challenges and SK's new, radically outward-facing approach
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ArticleShould we be Using Plastic at All?
Noel Morrin, Executive Vice President Sustainability at Stora Enso, makes a bold statement: Anything made from fossil-fuel today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
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ArticleMultilingual Digital Labelling and Smart Packaging in an Increasingly Global Marketplace
Imagine walking into a duty-free store at an airport in a different country to buy something, and instead of struggling with an array of translation apps or using sign language with the storekeeper, all you do is scan a label with your smartphone
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ArticleFlexible, Single-platform Packaging Solution Delivers Format Agility and Delicate Handling of Craft-made Italian Cakes
Livetech selected Rockwell Automation solutions to build a secondary packaging line for Galbusera-Tre Marie, an Italian brand with a long history in the bakery industry and with a commitment to preserving the craft-made quality of its cakes.
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ArticleSaving Brands' Cultural Heritage
Global designers unite to draw attention to, and create debate around, the issues of health warnings and marketing restrictions on packaging, and whether there are more effective solutions to change consumer behaviour.
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ArticleMillennial Purchasing in the Beverage Industry
Viktor Puzakov, Global Marketing Manager at Videojet Technologies, looks at what shapes the beverage purchasing decisions of millennials and its relation to coding and marking.
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ArticleThe Recyclate Initiative - a Best Practice Example at FachPack
Immo Sander, Head of Packaging Development at Werner & Mertz, highlights the Recycling Initiative's sustainable packaging solutions at Fachpack.
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ArticleThe efficiency challenge
Eric Hiser, VP technical at ISTA explains how packaging testing is evolving to replicate ever-changing supply chain hazards.
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Article"Consumers Want at Least 50% Recycled Content in their Bottles"
New research by Veolia reveals that the vast majority of people - 93%, think plastic bottles should contain recycled content and most are also willing to pay an average of 2.5p more for it.
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ArticleA Bold design communicates with the consumer
Carlos Román, Bold’s Creative Copywriter, talks us through the concept that won Bold a Platinum Pentaward this year, with its fresh approach to shelf appeal.
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ArticleA new dimension of digital printing
Velox Ltd.'s proprietary DTS-Inkjet technology, based on uniquely formulated inks and dedicated deposition architecture, introduces an entirely new approach to digital printing.
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ArticleThe Business Case for Green Packaging: 6 points on sustainability, the circular economy & plastic waste
Ahead of FachPack one of Germany's leading packaging voices, Dr Thomas Reiner (chair of the dvi, CEO of Berndt+ Partner and 2018 Sustainability Awards judge), speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the environmental challenges facing the industry
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ArticleFocus on Sustainability as Packaging Considerations Evolve over the Last 30 Years
An independent industry survey has revealed that advances in manufacturing has had the biggest influence on packaging over the last 30 years, but sustainability will be key to future trends.
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ArticleMovement for packaging artists
Starting from the dosing and packaging or filling of the product up to the palletizing of large packaging units, modern packaging lines integrate multiple work stations, whose specific tasks are fulfilled in a modular manner by separate machines.
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ArticleThe Problem of Shipping Empty Space
Over a third (34%) of global retail business leaders admit that the packages they ship worldwide are at least double the size of the actual product inside, a global study by DS Smith has revealed.
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ArticleAxion debates targets for recycled content in food packaging need care
Setting minimum targets for recycled content in food packaging may sound like a good idea, but could lead to overall less efficient use of resources if material types and their applications are not carefully considered, cautions Richard McKinlay
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Article24 Finalists Compete for the Top Sustainable Packaging Accolades
Packaging Europe has announced the top four submissions in each of the six categories of the Sustainability Awards 2018, as judged by the seventeen-strong, independent jury representing the breadth of the European packaging value chain.
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ArticleRetaining brand image in eco-friendly packaging
Amid increased consumer demand for more streamlined and sustainable packaging, manufacturers face the challenge of creating solutions that retain brand recognition while producing less waste.
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ArticleWarriors for Good
Anthem Benelux takes a look at a selection of brands who it deems worthy of hero status as warriors for good.