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.
21-May-2012 - An intelligent food label that tells consumers how long they have to eat a product after it has been opened could solve one of grocery’s great conundrums.
18-May-2012 - Consumer group Which? has called for ‘traffic light’ labelling to be used as an industry standard to improve nutritional information for consumers.
16-May-2012 - Whitehall plans for a single front-of-pack nutritional labelling scheme could be torpedoed by the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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.
11-May-2012 - Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has officially opened a £15M joint-venture recycling facility that will create 30 jobs and ensure the firm achieves its end-of-year target for recycled plastic.
07-May-2012 - With the government demanding a doubling in container-to-container glass recycling over the next five years, brand owners and retailers are under pressure to fund more consumer communication and collection schemes at local level.
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.
01-May-2012 - Nobody wants to eat a bruised apple, so the key to success for a tray-less apple pack is to handle them with the utmost care and that's a challenging task on a flow wrapping machine.
01-May-2012 - Packaging Automation (PA) is claiming a "world first" and major technology breakthrough in its all-electric heat sealing range.
01-May-2012 - Retail trials using Sirane's Sira-Flex Resolve have reported four additional days' shelf-life with potatoes and significant results with other fruit and vegetables.
01-May-2012 - Food giant Nestlé is starting to see environmental benefits from its new Nescafé refill packs just months after their launch.
01-May-2012 - Margins are tight for ready meal makers, leaving packaging system suppliers with the unenviable task of providing functional, versatile and sustainable solutions at the right price.
01-May-2012 - Beverage brands eager to have their cake and eat it are increasing their use of full-length, limited- edition shrink sleeves alongside established branding on more traditional, labelled bottles.
01-May-2012 - Sir,Your story on the use of microwave pasteurisation at S&R Foods (Food Manufacture, May 2011) said products placed near the walls of retorts tend to be overcooked to ensure those nearer the centre are cooked. This is simply not the case with retorts, even if the technology between equipment is different.
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.
16-Apr-2012 - As ministers consider a significant increase in the recycling target for plastics, the role of additives in compromising the single most successful stream of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) is becoming clearer.
11-Apr-2012 - Plastic packaging around fresh meat could become a thing of the past if new research into the use of edible anti-microbial coatings proves successful.
01-Apr-2012 - Two coders from Linx Printing Technologies are now available globally (except for the US).
01-Apr-2012 - Freshness and convenience were top of the menu when Swiss bakery Jowa set out to supply the Migros supermarket chain with Italian recipe pizzas for its popular Anna's Best line.
01-Apr-2012 - Italian packaging machinery firm PFM has announced a new variant of its Falcon flow-wrapper, which enables nests of pasta such as tagliatelle, vermicelli and similarly fragile products to be wrapped on edge in a slimline film pack, ready for display
01-Apr-2012 - A range of protein trays has been developed by Linpac Packaging in time for the barbecue season that will help consumers further reduce food waste this summer.
01-Apr-2012 - Visions of automaton servants to cater for every need are a far cry from the present state of robotics. Despite this, the use of robots in automated primary packaging systems present significant benefits to manufacturers in terms of hygiene, throughput rates and avoiding unnecessary damage to products. But due to concerns over price and justification, take up has been slower than some experts predicted.
01-Apr-2012 - Portion packs appear to be winning over converters and brandowners in the armoury being deployed against domestic food waste.
21-Mar-2012 - Nestlé UK and Ireland has become the first major confectioner to deliver 100% recyclable packaging for its Easter egg range.