All Comment articles – Page 44
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ArticleCoding Salty Snacks: the Challenges
James Wolff, Global Marketing Manager at Videojet Technologies, looks at current trends in the salty snacks market and the benefits of planning coding and marking operations in partnership with a specialist supplier.
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ArticlePackaging Matters: Consumer Expectations Drive Global Trends
Steven Cox, Creative Services Director at Daymon, talks to Packaging Europe about how brands can use packaging to boost their sales and their image. A customer walks down the aisle. Something green catches her eye on the third shelf. At that moment,
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ArticleECMA Business Seminar 2018: 'The Packaging Dilemma - A Time for Action'
The members of ECMA travelled to Schiphol Airport for the annual Business Seminar. This year’s seminar focused on the opportunities for cartons created by the discussion around plastics.
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ArticleAnalysing Innovation
Ahead of DowDuPont's 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel, shares his perspectives on the competition and packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes
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ArticleThe case for industrial packaging sustainability
Within the packaging industry, sustainability is often focused on the “consumer” side, a market that is set to grow year on year by 3.5% reaching a total value of $997 billion by 2020.
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ArticleAre GS1-128 barcodes on course to be the preferred standard?
A white paper released today from Markem-Imaje describes the drivers behind a building momentum in North America and Europe for the adoption of GS1-128 barcodes as the ubiquitous standard within retail and foodservice packaging.
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ArticleAxion: a ‘Taxing’ Question for Single-use Plastics Recycling
The controversial proposed tax on single-use plastic packaging has raised questions over how to best recover and recycle this material. Taxes or deposit return schemes – how can we use economics to incentivise more recycling?
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ArticleCould MES improve your packaging processes?
James O’Brien, global MES business lead at Zenith Technologies shares his experiences on how MES can and will bring efficacious changes to packaging processes and examines whether its benefits outweigh any implementation challenges.
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ArticleRe-discovering Packaging as a Strategic Element at Hispack
Javier Riera-Marsá, the president of the Hispack Organising Committee, analyses the situation of the Spanish packaging industry and reveals some recent trends that will be visible from May 8-11.
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Coding Natural Packaging
Viktor Puzakov, Global Marketing Manager at Videojet Technologies, looks at how beverage consumers are leaning more and more towards natural and organic products.
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ArticleHigh Performance Lubricants for Corrugators
At Anuga FoodTec, ExxonMobil introduced Mobil SHC™ Grease 462 PF, an advanced NSF H1 registered high temperature synthetic lubricant for the food and beverage and packaging sectors.
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ArticleFood Safety: Keeping Damaging Influences Out
Packaging is indispensable to ensure the shelf life of food products. It protects the product from damaging influences and prevents the development of microbes that are harmful to health.
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ArticleCost-effective Vacuum Technology in Food Packaging
In the first part of a series of articles, Uli Merkle, head of marketing services at Busch Dienste GmbH in Germany, explores the benefits of vacuum technology in the food packaging industry.
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ArticleHow to Capitalise on the Street Food Movement
Colpac shares some tips on how packaging can help make the most of the growing street food movement.
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ArticleWill It Make the Boat Go Faster?
The Digital Nomad encourages us to have a look at the small marginal gains that can add up to make a significant difference. There's never a bad time to make positive changes but make sure those changes are right for our business and clients
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ArticleProtecting the Product
John Wolf, Sealed Air Vice President of Strategic Fulfilment Solutions, talks about the important role air can play to keep products safe during transit.
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ArticleSUPRAVIS GROUP ADDRESSES THE SUSTAINABILITY DEBATE
As the debate about plastics rages on, packaging producer Supravis weighs in with a big-picture overview of the environmental challenges facing the industry today and the important role of multilayer films in addressing them.
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Article‘A Long Journey Ahead’
Amid a recent flurry of headlines around plastic packaging waste, Antalis has welcomed the transition towards sustainable, compostable packaging.
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ArticleFesto White Paper Offers Practical Tips for Industry 4.0 Implementation
Companies are beginning to appreciate and embrace the concept of industrial digitalisation and the potential it offers to improve production efficiencies, reduce cost and be more responsive to customer demands.
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Full Traceability Increases Product Protection
Thanks to extensive measures taken to ensure their quality and hygiene, paper sacks offer optimum product protection for the packaging of powdered products like flour, starch, baking mixes or powdered milk.