All Comment articles – Page 53
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Global Packaging Automation Market: Need to Shift between Packaging Designs to Drive Adoption
A large number of multinationals with vast funds to invest in R&D practices, a rapid pace of technological advancement, and integration of smart technologies in packaging automation solutions are rendering the packaging automation competitive.
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ArticleFlexible friends: How automation is bolstering flexible packaging growth
Flexibles are elbowing rigid packaging off the shelf. Paul Wilkinson of Pacepacker Services explores the growth in films for food, the challenges, and the many ways in which robotics and intelligent automation can contribute to their success
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ArticleMultichannel Multi-Challenges
E-commerce has disrupted our shopping habits and the supply chains behind them. Tim Sykes reports on some of the challenges this has thrown up and the packaging innovations and strategies being devised to meet them.
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ArticleEurope Needs a Plastics System that Works
The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently addressed the European Parliament on the EU’s circular economy package.
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ArticleIs Your Head in The Cloud?
The fast-paced printing industry is influenced and progressed by technological developments in surrounding domains.
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ArticleEasyfairs Unveils Plans for 2018
James Drake-Brockman, Divisional Director of Packaging Innovations, Empack and Label&Print talks about plans for the event’s return to Birmingham’s NEC on 28 February & 1 March 2018.
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Article‘Colour and Imagery’ the Most Appealing Aspects of Packaging
Colour and imagery are the most attention-grabbing aspects of packaging design, according to research by contract packers WePack, investigating public perception of packing aesthetics in the digital age.
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ArticleMeet Cornelia Fehlner, the New Face of FachPack
In September 2018 FachPack, the European trade fair for packaging, processes and technology, will go into its next round of events. And since October 2017, it has had a new face at the helm, in the shape of Cornelia Fehlner.
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Article‘We’re only at the Beginning of the Personalisation Revolution’
Many consider the Coca-Cola’s ‘Share a Coke’ campaign in 2013 a watershed moment in branding, bringing the versatility of digital print into the mainstream. But when will mass customisation give way to a new era of personalisation?
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ArticleCounterfeit Pharma & the Serialisation Challenge
Counterfeit pharma figures continue to grow due to increasingly complex supply chains, the increased sophistication of counterfeiters, a lack of enforcement capacity, and the expansion of e-commerce, writes Essentra's Rupert Taylor
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ArticleEditorial: We Need to Talk about Packaging
Tim Sykes asks whether, in a world where 'what feels right' often trumps the factual, keeping quiet about the positive impacts of packaging is the bigger risk.
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Article‘Acknowledging we can be part of the solution is first step’
Head & Shoulders is fighting marine waste with a 25% recycled beach plastic bottle. Tim Sykes spoke to brand owner P&G's Lisa Jennings and SUEZ's Jean-Marc Boursier about the project, lessons learned, extensions and broader waste strategies
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ArticleStrong roots support progression
The Xerox digital print live! event held in Hever, UK, on 19th October 2017 demonstrated how digital print can support and accelerate start-ups such as in the extremely competitive chocolate sector within the food industry.
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ArticleThe Power of Silence
Mehmet Gözetlik shook the design world by releasing images of familiar branded goods stripped of the ‘visual noise’. Passionate as ever about rescuing the human psyche from data overload, he talks to Tim Sykes about minimalism in a maximalist market.
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ArticlePlastics: No Barrier to Quality
David Rourke, RPC Corby, talks to Packaging Europe about the balance between convenience, preserving food and minimising waste.
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ArticleCreativity and Sustainability - A Winning Combination
Matthew Miller, business director at James Cropper 3D Products, talks to Packaging Europe about synergies between creativity and sustainability.
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ArticleA tried and tested, future proof material
Fipago represents the global gummed paper tape industry: producers, converters, and raw material and equipment suppliers.
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ArticleDeliberating initial directions on the digital voyage
With an objective of creating an atmosphere conducive to forming a packaging community within the digital printing sphere, Xerox achieved this feat by bringing together 130 international attendees from across the supply chain
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ArticleNanotechnology Foils Opens Up New Packaging Design Vista
Dr Glenn Wood, COO of Fresnels Inc., considers the latest in high impact nanotechnology foils for brand packaging applications.
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ArticleWHAT ARE WE REALLY TRYING TO SOLVE?
Omar Hoek, executive vice president at Ahlstrom-Munksjö, discusses innovation in today's connected world