Film & Foil

Foil for Snappy, the York-based community initiative renowned for collecting aluminium packaging to raise money for charity, has announced its best-ever year for packaging volumes. During 2020, the programme collected 5,482kg of…

Alu-Lids, a leading provider of aluminium lids for the largest cosmetic companies in Poland, purchased a fully-automated MPS EFA 430 flexo press to increase production, turnaround time, and quality control. Also purchased was the MPS…

AG Barr - maker of the iconic IRN-BRU - is accelerating its journey towards carbon neutrality and has announced that all of its soft drinks consumer multipacks will be wrapped in 100% recycled shrink wrap by the end of 2021. This move…

Sepha, the Northern-Ireland based specialist in pharmaceutical packaging and machinery, has launched a contract packaging service to meet rising demand for small batch production. Aimed at the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and medical…

Antalis UK has announced the effectiveness of its transparent antimicrobial film, Coala Coversafe, against SARS-CoV 2, the virus responsible for Covid-19. The company reports the film is 96% effective one hour after Pylote antimicrobial…

Machinery manufacturer ULMA Packaging (ULMA) and compostable packaging supplier TIPA have partnered to improve efficiency for running compostable films on advanced packaging machinery. The collaboration will optimise ULMA box motion and…

A sophisticated design and advanced finishing techniques were used to make Iggesund Paperboard’s 2020 season’s greetings card, designed by the Marianne Guély Studio in Paris. The card’s message, however, is a simple one reflecting nature…

The new concept has had impressive results; saving an additional 36 tons of plastic per year, and will be rolled out to the rest of Feneberg's self-service meat products. Feneberg Lebensmittel GmbH, a successful retail chain from Southern…

British fine fragrance brand Memoize London has selected products from the Antalis Creative Papers range to create luxury packaging for its two latest perfumes. With the support of Katherine Wilson, Creative Papers product support manager…

The third quarter of 2020 saw some welcome recovery in deliveries of aluminium foil, which experienced growth of 1.7% in the period. This was caused, to a large extent, by a stronger export performance, with sales outside Europe increasing…