All Comment articles – Page 50
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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
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ArticleEU Releases Holistic Strategy for Plastics in Circular Economy
Amid a flurry of popularly driven single-bullet announcements on plastic waste and packaging, the EU's new strategy is a typically deliberative and balanced approach, setting out to define how plastics fit the broader circular economy agenda.
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ArticleFirst Major Retailer Goes Plastic-Free
The UK’s leading frozen food specialist announced that it aims to eliminate plastic packaging by 2023. Iceland’s head of packaging Ian Schofield spoke to Tim Sykes about the implications.
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ArticleInside Coca-Cola’s Sustainability Strategy
Tim Sykes discusses packaging and Coca-Cola's European Sustainability Action Plan with Joe Franses and Ulrike Sapiro, and discovers that alternative feedstocks, refill systems and returnables are all on the table.
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ArticleMixed reception to UK Government Plan
Specialists in the packaging, sustainability and recycling world have responded with qualified welcome for the 25-year sustainability plan unveiled by Theresa May
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ArticleHow Health and Wellness is Driving Sales Growth in the Food and Beauty Markets
Consumers are increasingly taking charge of their own wellbeing and have become experts on their own health and beauty needs, choosing products that suit their lifestyles.
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ArticleWhat the UK's 25 year plan means for packaging & sustainability
May's beleaguered government won praise for 'getting serious about plastic waste'. What are the connotations for industry - and is the direction of travel conducive to holistic sustainability goals?
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ArticleHappy New Opportunity!
Our new columnist Richard Askam (aka the Digital Nomad) woke up on 1st January feeling curiously good…