All Comment articles – Page 50
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ArticleAre biodegradable plastics better for the environment?
Plastics are indispensable in many areas of our modern lives, yet questions over the material’s sustainability are rarely out of the headlines these days.
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ArticleExploring the Norwegian Model
Tracy Sutton, renowned consultant in circular economy packaging design and founder of Root, reports on her recent field trip to study Norway’s waste management systems.
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ArticleDispelling the Myths of MIneral Oil Migration
The subject of mineral oil migration has received a lot of media coverage over the last few years and is a complicated topic, as there are many different opinions, tests and data for a packaging technologist to consider.
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ArticlePackaging Design Enables Complex Rx to Cx Switch
GSK shares behind the scenes of a major project with Packaging Europe, the largest venture in GSK CH for 2014-15 which saw a switch from Rx to Cx for the nasal spray product Flonase.
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ArticleMaximising Warehouse Space to Meet Growing Demand
Stuart Fish, team leader for void fill and protective packaging solutions at Automated Packaging Systems, outlines the benefits of different packaging options in order to efficiently meet growing demand from consumers.
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ArticleWhat’s causing a shift from traditional materials to flexible packaging types?
Smithers Pira identifies the key reasons why flexible packaging is continuing to increase in popularity with consumers and brand owners.
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ArticleHolistic Approach Needed to Solve Coffee Cup Recycling Problem
Paul Foot, a partner and patent attorney at intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers, explores innovation in the context of the proposed 'latte levy'.
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ArticleInsights from a Serialisation Project Manager
Crest Solutions partners with pharma companies across Europe to deliver and support solutions for serialisation and aggregation. The project manager from a recent collaboration in Ireland shares key practical takeaways from the experience
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ArticleSerialisation Implementation: The Final Countdown
In the European Union, serialisation of pharmaceutical products will be mandatory beginning February, 2019.
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Article‘Meanwhile the flexibles industry is quietly working on solutions’
As popular media focuses unprecedented attention on the issue of plastic waste, stakeholders across industry have continued working to integrate polymers into the circular economy model. Exclusive interview with CEFLEX’s Graham Houlder
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ArticleStanding-Up to Market Pressures
Stand-up pouches are one of the fastest growing pack types. In 2014 Schönwald estimated that in 2018 in Europe almost 45 billion stand-up pouches would be used… This mark was exceeded in 2017
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ArticlePharma trends to look for in 2018
Marsha Frydrychowski, director of marketing services at Resource Label Group picks out six trends pharmaceutical packagers in the USA need look out for in 2018.
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ArticleSerialisation as Driver of Digital Transformation
The costs of serialisation put focus on ROI. Tim Sykes spoke to Molteni's Tiziano Petrucciani about the company’s collaboration with Rockwell Automation, using serialisation as a springboard for modernisation of its manufacturing processes
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ArticleAchieving on-shelf differentiation in advance
Smurfit Kappa's Arco Berkenbosch explores the science behind shelf impact with Tim Sykes and shares insights from a recent whitepaper ‘Marketing on the shelf - exactly how in control are you?’
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Article3D printing in packaging – beyond prototyping
Elisabeth Skoda finds out how the possibilities for 3D printing have expanded in the packaging industry in recent years beyond prototyping towards final products from professor Neil Hopkinson, director of 3D printing at Xaar
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ArticleLEVERAGING SERIALISATION
Steve Wood, CEO of Covectra Inc, sets out his vision of an industry that harnesses serialisation to deliver better supply chain efficiency and patient outcomes.
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ArticleWhen is plastic 'avoidable'?
Rose Brooke, editor of our sister magazine EPPM, raises important questions about the UK government's plan to stamp out all 'avoidable plastics' in 25 years.
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ArticleThe Coming Year in Packaging: Predictions for 2018
Packaging Europe canvassed opinion on the trends and technologies that will characterise CPG and retail packaging over the coming year. A diverse group of industry authorities passed around our crystal ball. Here's what they foresaw.
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ArticleIndustry responds to EU Plastics Strategy
On the backdrop of blanket calls for elimination of plastics, major packaging industry stakeholders have reacted positively to the European Commission’s holistic strategy, released yesterday, for integration of polymers into the Circular Economy.
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ArticlePackaging in Europe at Epicentre of Bioplastics Explosion
Packaging Europe’s Tim Sykes was among the 330 delegates seeking to map the future of a sector that looks to have an increasingly prominent role in packaging