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Reuse Fast Track initiative launched for reusable e-commerce packaging

With a target of 250,000 reusable packages and 20 pioneering brands, DS Smith is supporting the Reuse Fast Track initiative in collaboration with Re-Zip, and the Raja Group. The programme aims to develop a reusable fibre based packaging solution with French e-commerce manufacturers and suppliers. Reuse Fast Track, which is scheduled to run for a year, is anticipated to demonstrate that packaging can be reused with tangible benefits for sustainability targets, commercial prof

Jun 242 min read

Fora gin captures the spirit of Andorra

The Label Makers has helped Andorra's first craft gin brand create an award winning identity that captures the essence of the Pyrenean principality through premium embellishments, sustainable design solutions and print expertise. Launched in December 2025 by co-founders and co-master distillers Soraya Spiers and John Vrilakas, Fora was created to showcase Andorra's character. Its flagship product, Fora Terroir, reflects the country's landscape and heritage through a blend o

Jun 232 min read

Burgopak designs packaging for skin cancer diagnosis device

Burgopak has been selected to design and manufacture new packaging for Map My Mole’s image capture kit. The kit includes a clinical dermoscope, which is a magnifying lens attachment for smartphones. The lens allows users to capture medical quality images of their moles at home, which are then assessed by a consultant dermatologist. The brief from Map My Mole was to design a pack that provides coherence to the content – a clear arrangement of the lens, sachets and instructio

Jun 222 min read

bluemarlin shapes the future of moderate drinking with new Cisk Session brand

Brand design agency bluemarlin has unveiled the brand strategy and packaging identity for Cisk Session, a new lower alcohol addition to the Cisk portfolio that has been created to meet the evolving expectations of today’s more mindful drinker. The launch builds on bluemarlin’s longstanding partnership with Maltese brewer Simonds Farsons Cisk, having already developed the wider portfolio architecture, including Cisk 0.0% and Cisk Excel. With Cisk Session, the agency was ta

Jun 192 min read

Tuna in a carton: industry first packaging

Leading Spanish seafood producer Jealsa is using the industry’s first carton packaging for shelf stable tuna. Packaged in Tetra Recart, this innovation launched in Sweden last month with retailer Axfood in 200 ml Mini format, will now be available to food producers and brands worldwide A paper based alternative to traditional cans, Tetra Recart offers food producers a new way to differentiate in one of the seafood industry’s most established categories. The global shelf s

Jun 183 min read

Budding new collaboration for tree gifts

Geefeenboompje.nl collaborated with DS Smith to demonstrate the power of design and innovation in packaging for trees as gifts. Sustainable and robust fibre based corrugated cardboard packaging enhances Geefeenboompje.nl’s range of e-commerce tree gift products, and the optimised packaging is focused on both the internal packing process and functional performance of the design. The result is a clever concept where technical improvement, logistical optimisation, and visual

Jun 172 min read

Not to be missed...

London Packaging Week 16 to 17 September Excel London London Packaging Week is the home of packaging innovation and design – where the industry comes together to uncover the hidden decisions, unseen innovation, and untold stories shaping the future of packaging. Bringing together more than 5700 packaging professionals from the luxury, beauty, drinks, FMCG, and design communities, the event connects brands, designers, suppliers, innovators, and creators all under one roof. F

Jun 161 min read

Aluminium packaging producers must sell consumers on material’s sustainability

As societal and regulatory momentum towards promoting sustainability and the creation of effective circular economies continues to grow, the aluminium packaging industry has some distinct advantages, not least the effectively infinite recyclability of aluminium itself. However, a significant number of consumers globally do not see aluminium/metal packaging as highly sustainable, highlighting the need for packaging producers to promote the material’s sustainability, says Globa

Jun 164 min read

It is never just a label, it is what you make of it

MM Packaging explains. A label used to be easy to define. It identified a product, carried essential information, and helped a brand stand out on shelf. It was important but often treated as a finishing detail. The word ‘label’ itself has become a byword for incorrect assumptions and misleading categorisation. It is time to challenge the label of labels, because that overly simplistic view no longer reflects the vital role they play in modern packaging. Today, a label c

Jun 154 min read

Mondi supports transition laminate flooring packaging from plastic to paper

Mondi has collaborated with Swiss Krono to replace plastic based packaging for the company’s laminate flooring products with paper. The partnership demonstrates how the company’s kraft paper grades can meet demanding industrial packaging requirements traditionally served by plastic. Swiss Krono, a global manufacturer of wood based materials for interior design and construction, has introduced Eco/Vantage Kraft Pro and Ad/Vantage StretchWrap paper grades in its German operat

Jun 122 min read

Inside FMCG packaging’s real engine room

Mark Browne, European packaging development leader at PZ Cussons, explores the real world pressures shaping FMCG packaging innovation and will take to the stage at London Packaging Week 2026 in London. In FMCG personal care packaging, innovation is rarely limited by a shortage of ideas, but it can be limited by the barriers it must clear on the arduous pathway to market. Packaging change can appear deceptively straightforward. A new innovative format, a lighter weight pac

Jun 118 min read

James Cropper brings colour off the page at Edition Spéciale by Luxe Pack

James Cropper will bring its colour expertise to this year’s Edition Spéciale by Luxe Pack, taking place on 17 to 18 June at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, inviting visitors to explore how colour can become one of a brand’s most powerful assets. Drawing on more than 180 years of papermaking heritage and decades of colour matching expertise, the company will explore how colour captures identity, stirs emotion, and makes a brand instantly and unmistakeably recognisable. Th

Jun 102 min read

Dry by design: ProAmpac and Ozzi tackle moisture at the source

ProAmpac has announced the successful commercialisation of ProActive Intelligence Moisture Protect MP-1000, a breakthrough active packaging technology developed in collaboration with Ozzi, a brand specialising in stick pack formats for sensitive powdered products. Moisture Protect MP-1000 is a patent pending film technology designed to address one of the most persistent challenges in food, health, and wellness products: moisture driven degradation. The Moisture Protect seri

Jun 92 min read

Falconer delivers premium cartonboard solution for One Cask at a Time

Falconer Print & Packaging has developed a premium cartonboard pack for independent whisky bottler One Cask at a Time, combining luxury presentation, production efficiency and sustainability for the Scotch whisky market. Designed for One Cask at a Time’s generic carton format, the pack was created to deliver the shelf presence and tactile appeal typically associated with rigid presentation boxes, while retaining the commercial and environmental benefits of cartonboard. Th

Jun 82 min read

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Unboxing creativity

Mondi’s Pergraphica is a beautiful portfolio of premium uncoated fine papers designed for the exacting needs of creative

professionals in both commercial and packaging design and print.

Since its launch, numerous designers, printers and publishers have made the switch to Pergraphica design papers – and are delighted by the results.

Known as ‘Paper for Perfectionists’, Pergraphica fulfils the most demanding requirements for elegant printed documents while meeting top sustainability standards. The portfolio provides excellent printability on a choice of textures, shades and weights.