Packaging

'Big presence' for RPC at Packaging Innovations 2012 (02 February 2012)
RPC Containers will have a significant presence at Packaging Innovations 2012, at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham from 29 February-1 March. The RPC stand, F43-45, will feature the latest innovations and technology from six of RPC’s UK sites. More..

MEPs urged to support ‘x% less’ labelling claim (02 February 2012)
Ahead of a vote in the European Parliament, the UK’s food and drink industry has urged members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to support the European Commission’s proposed amendment to allow manufacturers to include ‘x% less’ or ‘no added salt’ claims on their products More..

Pacepacker wins prestigious national EEF manufacturing award for export strategy (01 February 2012)
Essex based manufacturer of packing, pick and place and robot palletising equipment, Pacepacker Services Limited, has been named runner-up in the Outstanding Export Awards category of the national EEF Future Manufacturing Awards 2011 More..

LINPAC Packaging celebrates 8727 accident free days (23 January 2012)
LINPAC Packaging has set itself a new record for its health and safety success by racking up more than 8,700 lost time accident free days in its manufacturing and sales and distribution sites across Europe, South America and China More..

Effective, adaptable can and bottle drying for Heineken (18 January 2012)
The canning and bottling lines at the Heineken plant in Valencia (Spain) now operate more efficiently thanks to the drying systems that they have recently installed More..

Addition to LINPAC Packaging’s Rfresh range (10 January 2012)
Europe’s multi-material packaging manufacturer, LINPAC Packaging, has added to its range of sustainable trays for meat and fish products with the launch of Rfresh MB More..

Linkx 'delivers bespoke depalletisation' (03 January 2012)
With demand for its premium quality jams and preserves growing strongly, Wilkin & Sons of Tiptree in Essex was finding the always-tedious manual depalletisation of empty jars delivered to its factory was now becoming a production bottleneck More..

Manfield Partners buys Mitsui’s European packaged food businesses (20 December 2011)
Manfield Partners, the investment and advisory firm, has acquired two packaged food businesses, MCM Select Foods in the UK and MCM Foods BV in the Netherlands, from Mitsui & Co of Japan More..

Nicholl adds flexible film lidding to range (13 December 2011)
Nicholl Food Packaging continues to widen its product offering following its appointment as the UK and Ireland distributor for Plastopil, a manufacturer of multilayer flexible barrier films and advanced packaging solutions for the food industry More..

Payne tear tape provides easy opening (13 December 2011)
Tear tape from Payne has enabled Precision Packaging Products, a New York company, to create a stylish, tamper-evident yet easy to open clamshell food package More..