All Comment articles – Page 42
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ArticleWine Label Facestock Choices and their Customization Options
When selecting materials for a wine label, choosing the right facestock leads to a strongly conveyed brand vision, optimum performance in its intended environment and allows for eye-catching customization options.
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Optimised sorting of plastics (video)
A new film from the VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz depicts an optimised sorting method depicts an improved sorting and processing method for valuable plastics, bringing the plastics life cycle full circle
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ArticleIT’S GOOD TO TALK
Re-invention isn’t easy but of course sometimes it’s a necessity (as the saying nearly goes) - writes Richard Askam, the Digital Nomad
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ArticleSmall Changes to Streamline Packaging Processes
Andy Pretious, UK sales and marketing manager at Automated Packaging Systems, reveals how small changes to the packaging operation can help companies to tailor their offering to meet increases in demand during key periods.
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ArticleBeyond the label
Labelling innovation can generate momentum for change across the supply chain. Libby White profiles innovations that have impressed, providing differentiation, achieving sustainability goals and optimising performance in challenging conditions.
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ArticleA trillion reasons why recycling is getting easier
NFC offers a great solution to improve recycling. A low-cost inlay could be added to packaging allowing the consumer, with a simple tap of their smartphone, to access information about the packaging, according to Gillian Ewers of PragmatIC
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ArticleThe biggest food contaminant risk
Phil Brown, Managing Director at Fortress Technology Europe discusses Metal, the biggest and most likely contaminant risk within food processing and packing plants today.
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ArticleFinding a solution to the packaging waste challenge
Reinhard Steup, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Management, HAVI Europe discusses how foodservice businesses should be using advanced analytics and trend forecasting to lower packaging waste levels in the industry.
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ArticleSustainable Humans
SUP bans lead to social and local discrimination - argues Sustainable Packaging Summit keynote speaker, Jocelyne Ehret of www.therightpackaging.com
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ArticlePrivate Label Comes of Age
Olly Abotorabi, Senior Regional Insights Manager at IRI, explores what lies behind the success of private labels across Europe.
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ArticleSorting the Plastic Recycling Problem
The number of polymers in packaging means raising recycling rates in a single collection stream demands better identification / sorting of plastics. Increasing interest and investment focuses on two technologies: UV tracers and digital watermarking
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ArticleAccepting the E-commerce Challenge
Sealed Air presented a range of solutions at Fachpack, helping companies address the operational challenges they face in a constantly changing marketplace.
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ArticleMAP, CAP or Vac-pack?
Charlie Ahern, general manager at aluminum packaging supplier Advanta, explores the different options of food preservation and their drawbacks and benefits.
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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.