12-Jan-2006 - As the focus for international packaging machinery manufacture shifts to eastern Europe and the Far East, UK engineering companies are finding it harder to compete...
12-Jan-2006 - Icelandic Glacial may not yet be a household name, but this new arrival in the bottled water sector won a double victory at a recent...
12-Jan-2006 - Pushed one way by ever-tighter budgets and another by the need to innovate, brands and their packaging suppliers are increasingly looking to academia to plug...
05-Dec-2005 - Trials by Nestlé Foodservices of a strip, which indicates how long a catering pack has been open, could pave the way for integration into sensitive...
05-Dec-2005 - Producers of high quality ready meals for catering are being undermined by low-gauge foil trays from the Far East, some of which are being sold...
05-Dec-2005 - Dry soup producer Batchelors has found to its cost that multi-layered segmentation of its broad Cup a Soup brand, and the way this was reflected...
05-Dec-2005 - The same type of barrier pot used by Princes Foods in its range of microwaveable fish-based snacks, sealed with a conventional metal ring-pull end, will...
04-Nov-2005 - Blending the new and the old, McVitie's has launched a festive tin for its Baked to Perfection biscuits sub-brand, including specially-created Victorian-style graphics.After six years...
04-Nov-2005 - Shaped cans have hit the mainstream with the launch of two Premier Foods brands in waisted-in and cauldron-shaped profiles.Shaping technologies for steel and aluminium have...
04-Nov-2005 - With retailer technical teams being pared down, as well as those in food and packaging manufacturers, a new consultancy service is now available for users...
04-Nov-2005 - As converters and brands look for improved costs and availability in biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), key material suppliers are under increasing pressure to invest in...
06-Oct-2005 - With the old-style board tube boasting plastic stoppers, Smarties could have gone either way – but Nestlé has opted for an all-cartonboard dispensing pack.The hexagonal-profile...
06-Oct-2005 - The determination of brands to exploit different sales channels is driving growth in contract packing where, as one new acquisition shows, foodservice suppliers are especially...
06-Oct-2005 - A new range of packs for Waitrose demonstrates how tailored lidding films can interact with particular foods and pack types to lengthen shelf-life uniformly, without...
06-Oct-2005 - Despite public and local authority concern about city-centre drinking and alcohol-related violence, brewers aim to keep beer in plastics as a niche alternative to glass...
06-Sep-2005 - US reclosability specialist Zip-Pak has acquired the resealable zipper and reseal bag business of UK-based Supreme Plastics.The acquisition, which will include Supreme's production plant in...
06-Sep-2005 - Pressure for shelf-ready packaging (SRP) has contributed to a thorough redesign of Premier Foods' jars and merchandising units for its Branston range.Previously supplied in case-loads...
06-Sep-2005 - Wraparound board sleeves are winning new converts in ready meals, as well as the already familiar dairy sector, thanks in part to new technology from...
06-Sep-2005 - A new range of retailer-specific cream pots from Arla Foods has fuelled disagreements over the relative cost and quality of different decoration techniques for thermoforming.The...
10-Aug-2005 - The combination of a quality-printed board sleeve and corrugated inner is providing soup brands with strong graphics, and the consumer with product visibility and insulation.BCP...
10-Aug-2005 - The need to combine higher output with the quality and flexibility required by its retail customers has led meat processor Wignall Foods to invest in...
10-Aug-2005 - As the recycling community celebrates an all-time record for UK waste recovery, a major compliance scheme has called for local authorities to be given material-specific...
10-Aug-2005 - In less time than it takes a biodegradable bag to break down, an uneasy truce between exponents of different 'degradable' technologies has fallen apart, with...
30-Jun-2005 - A custom-designed polyethylene terethphalate (PET) container from Graham Packaging Plastics is helping Premier Foods' Branston brand to achieve a lively on-shelf effect with its new...
30-Jun-2005 - The use of six and seven-colour sets in packaging print -- an approach which is rapidly gaining ground in the UK -- could be halted...