Articles

Glass isn’t always greener: Why we need to relook sustainable packaging design

11 Dec 2025
  • Just Design

By Vanessa Bosman, Group Managing Director at Just Design Over the past decade, society started switching to glass bottles to avoid microplastics. As it turns out, that big sustainable swap comes with 50 times the microplastic payload. According to ...

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From disruption to resilience: Powering Nigeria's future through strategic global partnerships

09 Dec 2025
  • Schneider Electric

By Uche Nnadi, Channel & Distribution Leader, West Africa, Secure Power at Schneider Electric Nigeria and other parts of West Africa are grappling with a critical shortage of skilled professionals in the power sector, particularly in technic...

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Old ideas, new impact: Rethinking innovation

08 Dec 2025
  • Packaging Innovations 2026; Empack 2026

Innovation isn’t always born from the new. Sometimes it emerges quietly, not from invention, but from rediscovery. From the fragments of long-held knowledge, time-tested techniques and ideas that once seemed ordinary, now seen through the sharp...

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Making gravure shine: Utilising BOBST oneECG to create metallised colours

05 Dec 2025
  • BOBST

Adding a luxury look to flexible packaging, BOBST oneECG (Extended Colour Gamut) for gravure includes the ability to print a wide range of metallic colours with a standard ink set. By removing the need for expensive metallic inks, the solution simpli...

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Award win for Ishida’s AI-powered production monitoring software

04 Dec 2025
  • Ishida

Ishida’s revolutionary AI-driven remote production monitoring software, Sentinel 5.0, has been awarded the Innovative Processing System accolade at the 2025 PPMA Total Show Awards, which recognise excellence in the processing and packaging mach...

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Wan Long Printing strengthens partnership with Nilpeter

02 Dec 2025
  • Nilpeter
  • Wan Long Printing

Founded in October 1991 in Nantou, Central Taiwan, Wan Long Printing began with just a single printer and has grown into a powerhouse of production with state-of-the-art flexo, digital and full/SR letterpress machines. The family-owned company, now m...

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Rosas Maschinenbau celebrates 25 years of innovation and family legacy

02 Dec 2025
  • Rosas Maschinenbau

Rosas Maschinenbau, a family-owned German manufacturer of highly specialised machines, proudly celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, marking a quarter-century of mechanical engineering excellence and innovation in the label and packaging, printi...

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Record-breaking line-up of suppliers confirmed for Packaging Innovations & Empack

02 Dec 2025
  • Packaging Innovations & Empack

Event organisers, Easyfairs, confirmed that over 450 exhibitors are set to pack Birmingham’s NEC in February for Packaging Innovations and Empack 2026, the UK’s premier packaging and processing event. The two-day showcase will bring ...

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Mondi strengthens its innovative drive for sustainable eCommerce packaging

02 Dec 2025
  • Mondi

Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, is further reinforcing its commitment to innovation in eCommerce packaging by combining extensive expertise in materials, design and packaging processes with a state-of-the-art testing enviro...

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Koenig & Bauer sets productivity benchmarks in commercial printing with Rapida 106 X

02 Dec 2025
  • Koenig & Bauer

In the highly dynamic environment of industrial commercial printing, the ability to produce and deliver a wide variety of print media in the shortest possible time is crucial to the business success of every company.   With the Rapida 106 X, ...

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Esko cements sustainability leadership with EcoVadis Silver recognition

02 Dec 2025
  • Esko

Esko has cemented its commitment to empowering packaging and label businesses with sustainable technology after it was awarded a prestigious silver medal by ESG compliance platform, EcoVadis.   The recognition highlights the significant progre...

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Digidelta makes sustainable outdoor advertising a reality with BIOND

02 Dec 2025
  • Digidelta

Digidelta, a specialist manufacturer of digital printing, decoration, visual communication and textile materials, has outlined how its revolutionary BIOND range of bio-based films can support companies, marketers and brands seeking a high qualit...

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Asahi Photoproducts launches Esko Quartz-certified AWP™-CLFQ plate

02 Dec 2025
  • Asahi Photoproducts

Asahi Photoproducts announced the official launch of its new AWP™-CLFQ water-wash plate. The certification handover by Esko took place on October 27th during AWP Days 2025 in Japan, officially confirming AWP™-CLFQ as the first solventless...

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Life Sciences brands can bring packaging to market faster, with more accuracy and consistency

02 Dec 2025
  • Esko

Visitors to this year’s CPHI Frankfurt event will be among the first to discover Esko’s latest innovations specifically designed to boost Life Sciences brand packaging quality, efficiency and accuracy. From 28-30 October, the global ...

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BW Packaging integrates divisions into a single organisation

01 Dec 2025
  • BW Packaging

BW Packaging, Barry-Wehmiller’s packaging machinery business, is excited to announce that, effective immediately, the company will operate as a single, unified organisation under the BW Packaging brand, transitioning from its three business uni...

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BOBST NOVAFOLD evolves with powerful new upgrades to drive efficiency and precision

27 Nov 2025
  • BOBST

BOBST has introduced a series of significant upgrades and new options to its NOVAFOLD folder-gluer line, reinforcing the machine’s position as an efficient and reliable solution for today’s packaging converters. With these newly anno...

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Custom apparel pioneer accelerates growth with Kornit Atlas MAX POLY

26 Nov 2025
  • Kornit Digital; Printeez Inc

Kornit Digital LTD., a global pioneer in sustainable, on-demand digital fashion and textile production technologies, announced today that Printeez, Inc. is the latest custom apparel leader to transition production volumes from screen printing to high...

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Chief economists warn of weak growth as economic environment shifts

24 Nov 2025
  • World Economic Forum

The global economy is entering a period of weak growth and systemic disruption, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists’ Outlook. Some 72% of surveyed chief economists expect the global economy to weaken over the n...

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DS Smith increases digitalisation with BOBST Connect insights

21 Nov 2025
  • BOBST; DS Smith

DS Smith has collaborated with BOBST for over five decades, beginning in 1971 with the installation of a BOBST flatbed die-cutter at its packaging facility in Toury, France. This long-standing strategic partnership in the procurement of specialised c...

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Yerecic Label partners with ePS to connect operations and drive efficiency

19 Nov 2025
  • eProductivity Software; Yerecic Label

Yerecic Label, a third-generation, family-owned label converter serving leading food brands, has chosen eProductivity Software (ePS) to unify and modernise operations across its facilities in Pennsylvania and Arizona. The initiative will streamline p...

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