Hoorah for East Midlands Packaging Businesses! I chair the East Midlands Packaging Society and we visited Mercury last year. Very interesting too. (Martin)
Mercury Packaging was recently shortlisted for a Food Processing Award. One of five finalists in the Packaging Solutions category, the leading UK flexible packaging specialist was nominated for the variety of high quality, [...]
Big winners include groundbreakers such as Exal’s coil-to-can technology, Coke’s PlantBottle, the compostable SunChips bag, and Entropy Solutions’ Greenbox.DuPont announced the winners of its 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation during a unique, global Webcast on May 25—the DuPont Packaging Exchange—that featured live perspectives from both competition judges and winners. This year, the DuPont Awards [...]
Great news for Amberley, who have been pushing new ideas, particularly in digital labels, for some time. I have to say though that there are too many companies who are happy to let their suppliers control their image by sending out press releases on their behalf – HP is a great company, but WHY didn’t [...]
Delighted to have been able to go along to the UK Packaging Awards last night, presented by Packaging News. They are always good nights, and I quite like getting dressed up in my monkey suit and schmoozing the great and the good of the industry. I can also tie my own bow tie, which means [...]
A Focus on Fellowship – IOM3 aims to recognise senior materials professionals world–wide PDF Print E-mail Posted by Jade Po Kellard on 30 October 2009 at 06:00Senior materials professionals globally are being invited to gain high-status professional recognition from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining IOM3. Experienced and qualified people can join the Institute [...]
Anne’s a real asset to the industry, and congratulations both to her and to Chris Penfold for having the good sense to recruit her! (Martin)
Design Cognition, packaging consultants & designers based in Nottingham, are proud to announce that Technical Director Anne Dallison has been awarded Fellowship of The Packaging Society, part of The Institute [...]
Well done Benson! An East Midlands company and Andrew Benson is a nice bloke, he comes along to the odd IOP: The Packaging Society event and it’s always nice to see hime there. (Martin)
Benson Group’s winning streak continued this week when it was named Customer Sevice Company of the Year at the Sunday Times Profit [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Plastic milk pouches, recycled-content bottles and compostable baked good trays are some of the packaging recognized by the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.
DuPont announced the winners through a virtual event that let attendees chat with speakers and each other, visit virtual exhibit halls and watch videos about the winners. The company [...]
Student Starpack is a great competition, the pack designers of the future getting the chance to really show what they can do (Martin)
A novel and imaginative milk pack stole the show at Student Starpack 2009, winning Supreme Gold and a Gold Star for Roman Klementsov, of Finland?s Lahti Institute of Design. The second year student [...]
Sheffield-based Smartstak, a division of the supply chain innovator Loadhog Limited, has won a 2009 Queen’s Award for innovation for its revolutionary glass bottle transportation and storage system.
via Queen’s Award goes to Smartstak – Packaging International.
