The job of packaging doesn’t end when the consumer makes their purchase.
The job of packaging doesn’t end when the consumer makes their purchase.
Food labels are price sensitive due to the share of volume they represent in the market and short lifetimes. Hence a lot of paper based materials are used and they have a specific requirement to be food safe. No brand owner wants to take the risk of a product re-call which does not only represent a high cost but also damages the brand identity.
It’s 2022, so why are brands still using plastic? That’s the question that Robert Lockyer, Founder and Chief Client Officer of luxury global packaging provider, Delta Global is asking, particularly to luxury fashion brands.
A recent US study found evidence of harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a variety of food packaging products. SGS looks at calls for a ban and regulations being enforced around the world to regulate these harmful ‘forever chemicals’.
LED UV inks are one of the fastest growing trends in the printing industry, fuelled by the increasing demand for sustainable products and a recent reminder that energy costs have returned as a pressure on business. LED UV inks are a popular sustainable option because they are 100% free of the solvents and VOCs (volatile organic compounds) that are linked to so many environmental and health problems.
European plastics industry braces for increased instability, higher prices, and lower growth
The pivotal point of all packaging industry innovation is sustainability. All stakeholders from across the whole of the packaging supply chain understand that the only way to future-proof our industry is to embrace integrating responsibility at every stage.
"Compact, reliable, connected, upgradable, green. Those would be my priorities in any technology these days". Article by Stelios Manousakis, Digital Technology Director at BOBST.
Growing demand for release liner across an increasingly broad application base has resulted in new and expanded in-depth coverage for AWA Alexander Watson Associates’ newly-published AWA Global Release Market Liner Annual Review 2022.
Article 1: Substrate shortages
Selling food products can be a tough task depending on location, business model, and several other factors. Two important things to consider are packaging and the protection of food products.