All Comment articles – Page 46
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European Bioplastics: Directive on Reduction of Single-use Plastic Products Remains Vague on Sustainable Alternatives
The European Commission presented an ambitious new Directive to tackle marine litter by introducing a number of measures including reduction and restriction of selected single-use plastic products.
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ArticleImplementing Industry 4.0 in Packaging
Dan Rossek, Marketing Manager Omron UK, talks about different ways of integrating Industry 4.0 in packaging lines and the benefits this could bring.
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VDMA: Food processing machines and packaging machines are in high demand
In 2017, the production of food processing and packaging machinery rose by 4.8 percent to a record level of more than 14 billion euros. The prospects for the current year remain positive.
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ArticleExport packaging: travel insurance for global freight transport
Transport packaging is a cornerstone of global trade: Without boxes, pallets or corrugated board, freight transport would come to a standstill.
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ArticleMaking the Case for Plastics Packaging
Gary Buchalter, Innovations Director, RPC bpi protec, warns against demonising plastic packaging and writes about the potential benefits plastics packaging can have to cut food waste.
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ArticleWorking towards a Sustainable Packaging Revolution
The global movement to highlight the enduring environmental and potential health impacts of plastics has kick-started wide-ranging programmes to reduce use and improve recyclability of single-use plastics
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ArticleThe East Coast's Leading Packaging Showcase
EastPack, part of the US East Coast's largest advanced design and manufacturing event taking place on 12-14 June in New York City, is the annual must-attend trade show for discovering the latest packaging innovations and trends.
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ArticleThe internet of boxes – tech’s next big thing?
We've all heard of the Internet of Things, along with the smart TVs, smart fridges and smart phones that make it up. But what about the boxes all these shiny gadgets arrive in? That’s just cardboard right, quite separate to the cool future-tech?
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ArticleTwo days left for Sustainability Awards Submissions
Submissions for the fourth annual Sustainability Awards have been are open for just another two days - closing on 15th May.
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ArticleCo-injection Technology Finds New Market Traction Via Single Serve Capsules
A new report from industry consultants, AMI Consulting published in April 2018, is a comprehensive deep-dive analysis of the global High Barrier Rigid Plastic Packaging.
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ArticleThe Digital Nomad: "Be Like A Start-Up"
Only with fresh eyes is it possible to see a way to get to the future of packaging. Ironically, once you start thinking in this way, you quickly wonder why you don’t do it more often!
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ArticleDesign Thinking: Shifting to Value-Driven
Brands are faced with highly visible evidence that a ‘recyclable’ pack isn't always recycled. Significant efforts are being made to ensure that single-use packaging ends up in a recycling stream rather rather than in our seas – writes Tracy Sutton.
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Half of UK Firms Failing to Prepare Packaging for Growth of E-commerce Deliveries
Around half of UK businesses have done nothing to account for the effect that the explosion in e-commerce deliveries might have on the condition of their products’ packaging, research shows.
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ArticleTop Takeaways from the First European Shopping Bag Summit
Shopping bag converters, suppliers and customers came together in Prague on 19 April for Let’s Paper the World 2018 – the first European shopping bag summit, organised by Mondi Group’s Speciality Kraft Paper segment.
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ArticleThe Moments of Sale in a Digital World
Ronald deVlam, brand leader, sgsco Design, urges brands to take notice of a changing world.
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Article"The Half-Life Will Shorten": Packaging in the age of the Zero Moment of Truth
Creative director in the packaging design department of Y&R BCN, Julie Asschenfeldt talks to Tim Sykes about designing packaging as part of a wider communication with consumers in a world undergoing digital transformation
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ArticleThe Next Generation of Products: Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’
In developed and maturing markets, food and beverage manufacturers are struggling with slowing growth and are therefore seeking new growth opportunities.
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ArticleThe Multi-Faceted Resource Efficiency Challenge
The conference platforms at Anuga FoodTec probed at the deep questions of resource efficiency in a world of growing population and finite resources. Tim Sykes reports.
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ArticleThe Hidden Power of Specifications
Packaging specifications: for some technologists it’s an administrative bane; for others there's a systematic pleasure in outputting the perfect piece of documentation. Richard Beckett of Oriflame makes the case for the value of a good spec.
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ArticleInnovation addressing competing challenges in the pharma packaging market
Pharmaceuticals companies are experiencing a wave of competing challenges as part of what PwC refers to as the New Health Economy.