Round-Up: Packaging

Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. Next week’s round-up will focus on processing news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].

• Global Closure Systems (GCS) has developed a bi-injected flip top cap with a tamper evident device for Italian food manufacturer Ponti.
• Food retailer Waitrose is changing the packaging for its own label passata range, from glass jars to carton packs.
• Metal cans achieved the highest volume growth of any packaging material in the packaged water category, according to Canadean’s latest soft drinks research.
• Glass packaging manufacturer Beatson Clark has created a new bottle for Halewood International’s after dinner drink Irish Meadow.
• Glass container manufacturer Ardagh has welcomed the outcomes of the European Commission’s ‘ambitious’ Circular Economy Package.