Container glass manufacturer Quinn Glass has relaunched its specialist bottling division under the new branding ‘Cobevco’. Cobevco will bottle beverages
- Lidl’s five year investment into British food businesses to reach £21 billion Lidl GB is on track to invest a total of £21 billion in the British food industry by the end of FY24, exceeding its original five-year commitment of £15 billion...
- UK Food System Net Zero plan outlines how industry and government can achieve ambitious 2050 emission reduction targets The Institute for Grocery Distribution (IGD) has released the report, A Net Zero Transition Plan for the UK Food System, providing a framework for the food sector to achieve 70% emissions...
- Growing costs present major challenge to Ireland’s foodservice sector – Bord Bia Findings from Bord Bia’s annual Foodservice Market Insights report, show that the Irish ‘out of home’ sector increased by 5.2% in value and overall industry turnover surpassed €9.8 billion across both...
- €500 million sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland to Kerry Co-Operative Creameries Kerry Group plc has entered into an agreement with Kerry Co-Operative Creameries Limited to sell Kerry Dairy Holdings (Ireland) Limited to the co-op for a total expected consideration of €500...
- Belfast-based Cocktail Keg Company secures £1.2 million of investment to grow its business A Belfast company, which creates the world’s only freshly batched cocktails, has attracted £1.2 million in funding to grow its business from the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland (IFNI), managed...
HP Sauce bottles have been given a makeover with limited edition bottles unveiled to raise awareness for the Movember campaign
Tetley is to modernise its decaf tea brand by introducing a resealable pack made from laminated paper The tea
Design agency Pearlfisher and glass packaging manufacturer O-I have developed a new bottle for the first addition to the Cutty
Coca-Cola Enterprises recently welcomed Vince Cable to its manufacturing facility in Wakefield, allowing the UK Business Secretary to witness first-hand
Nestlé has officially opened the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. NIHS research
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has revealed how Britain’s pub closure rate has increased to 18 a week, with
Design agency JDO has linked up with Heineken to create the brand identity for a new extension to its Zlatopramen
Forklift manufacturer and material handling specialist Toyota Material Handling has introduced the new BT Reflex O-series multi-function reach truck designed
Business Secretary Vince Cable has made a visit to Coca-Cola Enterprises’ manufacturing facility in Wakefield According to the drinks giant,
London Electronics makes flexible and easy to use production monitoring systems, designed to help you get the best out of
Yearsley Group, the UK’s largest cold storage and distribution company, has announced it has expanded its investment in Autostore. The
Barloworld Supply Chain Software (Barloworld SCS) celebrated some of its top software users of 2012 including BAT, Carlsberg, DHL, LEGO
The Coca-Cola Company is to make a new system investment of $300 million over the next three years in Vietnam
A small-scale brewery owned by former Formula One driver Jody Scheckter has breached alcohol responsibility rules for using a drawing
Greenpeace has stepped up its campaign against board supplier Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) by claiming that fast food giant
The AccuVeyor® AVD offers Dynamic Accumulation and saves valuable floor space. Its usable length can be expanded to overcome micro-stops
Premier Foods has agreed to sell its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Mizkan of Japan for a cash
A famous food manufacturer uses a Mecmesin peel testing system to reduce wastage from seal adhesive defects and provide their
MULTIVAC has launched a new design of traysealing tool for air-packs which combined with a new infeed system delivers significantly
Cama Group realised this packaging system for the case packing of cans of different dimensions, containing instant powder for coffee/cappuccino.
AMI Consulting, Bristol, 24/10/2012– According to a recently published study by leading industry consultants, Applied Market Information Ltd (AMI Consulting),
TerraCycle has announced that it is celebrating a new milestone after the company’s recycling and fundraising ‘Brigade’ programmes diverted their
MetalMatters, the metal packaging recycling campaign, has launched what it calls its most ambitious campaign to date, in partnership with
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has opened a brand new education centre at Continuum Recycling – its joint venture with Eco Plastics
The ban on cash transactions for scrap metal will end cash for cans schemes, despite lobbying from Aluminium Packaging and
The Packaging sector in Catalonia accounts for a turnover of 4.600 million Euros through the productivity of 550 companies employing
The wine and spirit industry have been using PET bottles for miniatures and flasks for over twenty years, initially the
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, November 1, 2012 Vitablend, the premium provider of nutrition fortification and protection solutions, opened a new state
Frutarom Health, USA, is pleased to announce that starting mid November 2012, its patented HyperPure® technology, developed and used to
With food and pharmaceutical manufacturers looking to extract every ounce of value from their assets, the potential benefits to be
Sato, supplier of integrated Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions based on barcode and RFID technologies, is participating in the
Sato, supplier of integrated Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions based on barcode and RFID technologies, is participating in the
Since its initial implementation in 2011 the Empirica warehouse management system provided by Chess Logistics Technology has supported rapid growth
Burton’s Foods came to Crown Conveyors with a need to divert product to an auto packing station and hand packing
Holistic Margin Management award recognition of Smurfit Kappa’s support over the last 15 years The awards took place at the
The Holmen Group, which includes Iggesund Paperboard, has claimed that it is the only Swedish company to have been selected
Yorkshire based Potter Group Logistics has posted a set of strong financial results for the year ending April 2012. With
Premium adult soft drinks manufacturer Bottlegreen has handed its ‘Enjoy Hot’ cordial product a makeover Bottlegreen first launched its Enjoy
Global brand and creative design consultancy agency The Brand Union has created the new designs for Malibu’s limited edition Snowcoco
Spiroflow Ltd are a leader in the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of bulk materials and ingredients handling and processing
Executives from developer Gazeley and A.G. Barr – the soft drinks manufacturer behind popular drinks IRN-BRU, Rubicon and TIZER –
The REVO TC combines a temperature controller, solid state relay (SSR) thyristor, quick blow fuse protection and current monitoring –
Chocolate bars and wafer biscuits maker OP Chocolate has announced that its investment in a 53LTi thermal transfer printer from
Food packaging machinery specialist Tna has claimed that it has launched the world’s first vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS)
Start-up business Conversion has clinched deals to distribute Highcon’s digital cutting and creasing machine, the Euclid, and the Scodix suite
Mettler-Toledo Safeline has launched an x-ray detection machine that is claimed to operate using less power The X3310 is
CRP Print & Packaging has beefed up its pre-print business by installing a new ink dispensing facility and laboratory.
22nd October 2012: As the largest packaging supplier in the UK, Invopak recognises the industry’s need to take environmental issues
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