I’ve just installed the iPhone Wordpress app and this is just checking that it works! Wish I had had it yesterday when I was at Total Processing and Packaging at the NEC. Can’t say it was packed, though the Packaging Society stand was very busy. (Martin)
HP today announced that Kingsway Printers, of Humberston, Lincolnshire, has installed an HP Indigo press ws4500 and an AB Graphic Omega Digicon Series 2 finishing unit to create an end-to-end digital label and flexible packaging production capability.Established in 1972, the family-run company is the latest in a number of medium size label converters who have [...]
Well, yeah, but people have been putting fragrances in packaging for at least fifteen years, ever since soap went into flow-wrap. (Martin)
Going beyond the visual is the latest way to make a product stand out on the store shelf, according to packaging professionals at this year’s PCD Congress.
A number of products were showcased at the [...]
The Times has published an exposé of Manchester University’s Sustainable Consumption Institute being funded to the tune of £25 million by Tesco. In SCI’s latest report, they favourably mention Tesco’s green point scheme for reusing carrier bags while ignoring the Irish compulsory bag charge scheme. Now, while I realise that University departments have to develop [...]
New food packaging can double or, in some cases, even triple the shelf life of certain foods for up to 24 months compared with conventional packaging, claims its manufacturer Superfos.
SuperLock packaging is said to achieve the longer shelf-life thanks to very low oxygen transmission rates obtained through a new oxygen barrier. And barrier protection is [...]
Great mention for Design Cognition in the Daily Telegraph. Good to see specialist packaging expertise being recognised (Martin)
For Chris Penfold, chief executive of Design Cognition, such networking could prove to be invaluable. Next month, Nottingham-based Penfold will fly to Los Angeles with several other British healthcare specialists to attend the annual meeting of the American [...]
Don’t understand this story from America at all – 100% polyester lidding films have been available in the UK for 20 years from companies like FFP Packaging Solutions. And I’m not sure 2.5mm works as a film thickness either! There has been a lot of work by FFP and maybe some others in reducing film [...]
But we already knew this, didn’t we!? (Martin)
For a few days each year, the packaging and processing communities come together at PACK EXPO to network, exchange ideas and do business. There’s nothing that replaces face-to-face connections, but there’s another way to foster the business relationships that are the hallmark of PACK EXPO: Social media.“More than [...]
Google is celebrating the barcode and the humble strip of black and white is marking its 30th birthday in the UK.
Barcodes have a quiet ubiquity. They have proliferated to the point where few of us even notice them.
A US invention, they finally made their way to the UK in the late 1970s and in October [...]
The Zip & Valve pouch enables end-consumers to not only prepare their meals faster but also gives the opportunity to season their rice or soups individually the same way as in traditional cooking. Freshly prepared, individually flavoured and healthy meals are ready in only a few minutes time – giving end-consumers precious spare time in [...]
