21-May-2012 - As UK food and drink manufacturers search for ways to reduce packaging and carbon footprints, a new drinks launch in Thailand could point the way ahead.
14-May-2012 - Sugar packager and distributor Napier Brown will create 20 new jobs at its facility in Normanton, West Yorkshire in a move welcomed by shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper.
09-May-2012 - The "first-ever" automated system capable of loading bagged produce into receptacles for transportation aims to help eliminate unnecessary wastage of fruit in factories.
02-May-2012 - A new electronic nose designed to detect ripeness could save millions of pounds each year in preventing the wastage of fruit and vegetables, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
26-Apr-2012 - The newly-formed Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association (AIPIA) is urging the European Commission (EC) to legislate in order to clarify which AIP technologies and materials can be used, and how they can be applied.
21-Mar-2012 - Nestlé UK and Ireland has become the first major confectioner to deliver 100% recyclable packaging for its Easter egg range.
08-Mar-2012 - The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has defended the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) after Campbell’s Soup pledged to phase out its use in all cans due to consumers' safety concerns.
15-Feb-2012 - Apprenticeships are the key to maintaining the competitive advantage of Scottish food and drink firms, according to industry experts.
31-Jan-2012 - Two Norfolk firms have been fined a total of £8,000 after a worker’s hand was crushed in a vegetable packing plant.
01-Jan-2012 - ABB can now offer a complete range of high-efficiency motors for explosive atmospheres since the launch of its IE2 motors in frame sizes 80 to 132.
01-Jan-2012 - The limited reduction in supply chain product and packaging waste in the latest phase of the Courtauld Commitment is due to its relative recent introduction as a target, said the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
01-Jan-2012 - Food packaging will need to adapt to major changes in demographics, social trends and the supply chain in the future. Just what this could mean for the industry emerged in a recent series of seminars.
05-Dec-2011 - The government is failing to do enough to encourage an open debate on the use of nanotechnology and bodies such as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) should step into the breach.
30-Nov-2011 - Food products designed for consumers over the age of 65 is one of the key food trends that will dominate 2012, according to marketing research firm Innova Market Insights.
02-Nov-2011 - Food packaging firm Veriplast UK has left 67 employees with the choice of losing their jobs or relocating to Holland after the firm announced the closure of its factory in County Durham.
20-Oct-2011 - A robotics workshop will take place next month to help UK food and beverage manufacturers catch up with their European competitors.
12-Oct-2011 - Major investment is even more important during tough times than easy ones, according to Steve Adams, Coca-Cola Enterprise’s operations director at Sidcup.
06-Oct-2011 - Hundreds of millions of pounds are being wasted each year because new packaging designs are being dreamt up that won’t feed through packaging machinery.
04-Oct-2011 - Continental European applications of Rexam’s hybrid Fusion aluminium can-bottle in beers, wines and other key categories have, so far, not been matched by UK brand owners. But the pack is already in use in niche areas including energy and beauty drinks.
29-Sep-2011 - Nicola Swann, from Videojet Technologies, has triumphed in the PPMA Show's Ones to Watch awards. The awards recognise promising under 35-year-olds who have made an outstanding contribution to the UK packaging and processing machinery industry.
26-Sep-2011 - Manufacturer Heinz has denied any slowdown in its sales, following news of a drop in demand at a tin can plant in Wales.
01-Aug-2011 - The deep and complicated world of packaging and labelling regulations has been laid out in a new publication.
01-Aug-2011 - For the first time, plastics converter Faerch Plast UK has said it is forming frozen food trays from a high-impact strength grade of crystalline polyethylene terephthalate (CPET) for better performance at low temperatures.
01-Aug-2011 - The key to the future of thermoforming lies in base machine systems with the versatility to create different formats, from skin to shrink-style and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), according to Sealpac UK.
01-Jun-2011 - International take-up of a ‘gourmet’ hot meal vending system is being fuelled by Sealed Air Cryovac’s retortable tray-and-skin vacuum pack, says the company.