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 carly@bellpublishing.com.
- Technavio predicts the global advanced packaging market will exceed $31 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of almost 8%, due to a rise in consumer awareness, demand for fresh food and increasing consumption of processed food.
- Essentra introduced its new service – The Design Hub – at Packaging Innovations, held last month in the UK.
- Sick believes it has set a technology milestone in sensing capability for food and drink process and packaging automation.
- DataLase’s new inline digital printing technology enables brand owners, co-packers and converters to generate high quality graphics while minimising costs and boosting supply chain efficiencies.
- Ulma Packaging is now offering the UK market a high tech version of its Atlanta range of horizontal flow wrapping machines.
- Global Closure Systems (GCS) was the preferred choice to cap Danone Waters’ new one litre bottles of Volvic natural mineral water.
- Greiner Packaging has supplied Estonian dairy company Valio Eesti with 100ml and 300ml low weight HDPE bottles for probiotic kefir and yogurt drinks.
