Paula’s Choice has been disrupting the beauty industry for years, boasting smart, results driven formulas and transparency throughout the brand to ensure that customers are well informed about their choices. For the past few years, Paula’s Choice has been trading with Smurfit Kappa Benelux, with excellent results. In February 2021, the company partnered with third party logistics provider Walker’s Logistics, which helped it to navigate UK sales – both from the Paula’s Choice

Sato has partnered with Xerafy to bring pioneering metal skin radio frequency identification (RFID) labels to the automotive, manufacturing and healthcare global markets through its range of RFID enabled printers. The Xerafy Metal Skin RFID labels, which provide real time traceability and asset management visibility, are easy to print from a Sato RFID enabled printer – such as the CT4-LX and CLNX Plus series – and flexible due to their ability to be used both on and off metal

Chivas Brothers is the Scotch whisky business of Pernod Ricard and has an award winning portfolio of some of the world’s best known and revered single malt and blended Scotch whiskies. It is a long standing partner of Smurfit Kappa Composites, and the two companies have collaborated for many years on innovative packaging that enhances the brands and its sustainability credentials. This latest project demonstrates how a strategic partnership approach delivers ongoing value thr

Sharpak has unveiled a new premium look hybrid pack for sushi, designed with multiple benefits for food to go brands, retailers, consumers and importantly, the environment. The Luxifood pack comprises an rPET lid and new novel cartonboard base that ensures all moisture is retained and doesn’t leak or seep from the pack in store or transit. Ideal for both grocery and food to go retail destinations, Luxifood has been manufactured completely in-house and incorporates numerous fe

Smurfit Kappa Food Contact Packaging provides some advice... Consumers are becoming more sustainable: a YouGov survey concluded that a huge 69% of respondents thought that companies should be required by law to create environmentally friendly packaging – even if it meant them paying more for the goods. Meanwhile, the same survey found that 46% of people actually feel guilty about the amount of plastic they currently buy. And while on the whole the nation has focused on plasti

To avoid being caught out by the Plastic Packaging Tax, due to come into force in April 2022, Antalis Packaging offers its insight on how to get ready. Over the last few months, Antalis Packaging has been making preparations to help its customers minimise the impact of the tax. Here, Antalis’ packaging technologist manager, Jason Poxon, explores what the new tax might mean for businesses and shares some of the steps to take to ensure you are not caught out. No one likes payin

A new lifecycle analysis report has highlighted the outstanding environmental credentials of cartonboard packaging when compared against fossil based alternatives. ‘Cartonboard Life Cycle – Comparing the carbon footprint of carton packaging against alternative solutions’, goes into the granular detail of the cradle to grave environmental performance of cartonboard in frozen food, ready meal, fast food and small electricals packaging, compared to other commonly used packaging

This summer, Robinsons, Lipton Ice Tea and drench 500 ml bottles are moving to 100% recycled plastic (rPET). The 500 ml on the go bottles are the first to use recycled plastic from a new rPET manufacturing facility in North Yorkshire. The facility, built by Esterform Packaging Limited following Britvic’s £5 million investment support in 2019, is powered by 100% renewable energy and provides Britvic with a secure supply of quality food grade rPET in the UK. Mark Tyne, Esterfor

Determined to deliver a sophisticated take on make at home recipe boxes, e-commerce brand Wild Radish pours a love of good food into everything it does. Launched during the Covid lockdowns, the boxes are designed to bring a touch of luxury to the market, slowing down and emphasising the joy of cooking, not just eating. Of course, from an e-commerce packaging perspective, that presents a problem. A more everyday brand can take a few dents in its boxes, or ingredients thrown to

pladis, the global snack company behind some of the UK’s most loved and iconic brands, has been on a mission to substantially reduce its environmental impact by updating the packaging of various products to more ecological alternatives. This is part of the company’s sustainability agenda, which reflects its commitment to making all its packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. Most recently, pladis has made steps forward to move toward more paper based solutions

Hashtag Organics says that trade finisher ACA will definitely be given the contract for the next new product it launches in its CBD (cannabis extract, a safe non-narcotic) spa treatments range. Emma O’Neil, managing director, said: ‘Our branding and our packaging has to be very high end to match our product. When we moved our CBD products from the pharmaceutical sector into the spa and high street bar markets we decided we needed outside professional design and we placed the

The first lockdown in March 2020 was certainly a surprise – and a hurdle – for Niche Cocktails, which had just launched a canned cocktail business. The original goal had been to sell in the trade space, marketing to pubs and hotels so its drinks could be sold in bars. Stay at home orders obviously put this on hold. Not to be deterred, the founders decided to pivot the business, shifting their attention to the D2C consumer space – especially as drinking at home was on the rise

Esko has announced the launch of a free downloadable e-book, ‘Trends in the Beverage Packaging Industry: Ingredients for Success’, which outlines key industry trends and the tools brands can adopt to capitalise on them for commercial success. The global market for alcoholic beverages amounted to over $1.49 trillion in 2020 and is expected to grow to $2.2 trillion by 2025, according to Statista. Changing consumer habits during the pandemic have led to a plethora of new behavio

Rochperle Grease Resistant boards are now available throughout the UK from Premier Paper. Rochperle Grease Resistant (GR) is a range of KIT 8 rated plastic free barrier boards that have a high white front and a tactile, cream reverse. The board’s grease resistance and reinforced sizing treatment make it the ideal choice of product when producing food packaging for products such as bakery goods. The Rochperle GR range is stocked in-depth and available across the UK, off the sh

Community Playthings create quality wooden toys and furniture for nurseries and primary schools. They required quality presentation boxes to house their beautiful wooden toys and spoke with Denmore Press about what could be achieved. Denmore used a wood inspired material to reflect their brand and built a hinged lid over a paperboard box with a magnetic closure using Winter & Co's Napura Khepara Walnut, a thermoreactive board that looks like wood. They even gave the logo an e

Luxurious and stylish presentation boxes from Pollard Boxes are providing the perfect complement for a new range of premium candles and diffusers from renowned florist Timothy Dunn, helping to create a complete experience for the consumer. The Artist Collection from Timothy Dunn London comprises 11 luxury home fragrances that demonstrate synaesthesia, a neurological trait which joins or merges senses that are not normally connected. In this case the senses of scent and colour

CKB Carrier is the latest addition to Premier Paper’s extensive portfolio of graphic and carton board products. Produced by Stora Enso at the Imatra mill in Finland using 100% pure virgin fibre from responsibly managed forests, CKB Carrier is a strong, robust and sturdy unbleached multi-layered kraft board most commonly used in the production of food packaging, drinks packaging, bottle holders and more. Dave Arnold, Premier’s sales director for graphical and packaging boards,

A luxury presentation pack for contemporary whisky Creag Isle, designed by Pollard Boxes, combines high impact on-shelf presentation with an effective ‘opening experience’. The box’s solid frame construction features vacuum formings at the top and base into which the bottle is held securely. The box is complemented by a slipcase which slides open to reveal the bottle, creating greater interaction with the brand and a sense of excitement and anticipation for the recipient. At

Innovia Films is launching a new film in its Propafilm range of transparent speciality packaging films. CHS offers improved thermal resistance and shrinkage properties compared to conventional polypropylene films. It has been designed to substitute traditional outer web films in laminates for applications such as pouches and lidding in various food markets. Paul Watters, product development manager packaging, Innovia Films, said: ‘With CHS, we have developed a BOPP film with

Durham Box has produced distinctive new gift and shipping packaging for Knaresborough based craft beer micro brewery, Turning Point Brew Co. The vibrant selection gift pack, comprising either 4 x 440 ml cans, or 4 x 330 ml cans, was created to showcase innovative beers from the brewer’s core range, including the iconic Disco King, an American pale ale and three popular Custard sweet ales in various unique flavours. Formed in 2017, Turning Point Brew Co’s founders have seen a