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The Digital Difference: How Digital Finishing is Becoming Increasingly Agile in the Packaging Sector

The Covid-19 Pandemic has seen a huge rise in ecommerce, and not just for consumers. Converters and brands are also coming to terms with new ways of doing business, not least through creating dedicated web-to-pack websites. These platforms offer packaging products that help companies, including small to medium businesses, to quickly obtain branded packaging materials that are uniquely customized to their needs. In this article, Simon Lewis, VP of Marketing at Highcon explores this trend further.

Seamless integration of software, machine and human are a must

Software is sexy! It can determine whether a company has that one small decisive advantage over the competition. No company can do without this one inconspicuous and invisible component in the production process. By Sabine Slaughter

Spoilt for choice: different technologies for different applications

Labelling and marking are an important part of the overall product and packaging workflow. A wide range of rules and regulations must be observed to ensure standardised areas and imprints so that the end customer can easily find the information, among other things, about the package contents, shelf life and more. By Sabine Slaughter

What Does the Future Hold for Packaging?

By Jesper Gustavsson, Business Development & Founding Partner of V-Shapes

If 2020 and 2021 taught us anything, it is how unpredictable the future is. That being said, there are certain trends in the packaging industry that we expect to see accelerate over the coming year.

Clariant Personal Care expanding digital capabilities to provide more data in real time

The personal care market is experiencing incredible change including digitalization, new textures and novel formats and Clariant is offering customers more agility and the ability to respond rapidly to their needs.

Paper Is an Effective – and Cost-Effective – Cold Chain Packing Solution

By Anne de Rouw, Business Development Manager Cold Chain at Ranpak

During the pandemic, use of e-commerce spiked, including online purchasing of food products that require thermal protection during the shipping process. In most cases, products are delivered within 24 hours, and traditionally, many of these products have been shipped using expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes and other non-sustainable traditional cold chain solutions. While these boxes are lightweight and provide good thermal protection, they do have disadvantages.