Packaging

Packaging, and plastic packaging in particular, has never had a higher profile, although for all the wrong reasons.

Packaging and POS trade supplier Swanline Print Group has pledged its support for female packaging professionals by announcing its sponsorship of Women in Packaging UK (WIP UK) throughout 2018.

Xaar hopes to make “at least one” acquisition this year and the business has maintained its ambitions to boost sales by more than £100m in order to achieve its 2020 growth target.

Delga Press will be the first UK firm to run an HP Indigo 12000 HD for dedicated packaging applications when it installs the machine at the start of April.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has pledged to look at ways to combat the late payment culture impacting SMEs as part of his Spring Statement.

Kay Street, co-founder and former company secretary of Jaymar Packaging, has died at the age of 71.

Macfarlane Group saw a £16.2m boost in turnover over 2017, with its packaging distribution division leading the charge in sales growth.

HP has unveiled a new Indigo digital press and outlined a raft of other updates to its machinery and consumables portfolios.

Packaging has barely been out of the news recently for various – usually plastic-related – reasons, but in the background there is an ongoing campaign for the introduction of more ‘plain packaging’...

The first Landa Nanographic digital press to be installed in Europe is on its way to beta site Edelmann in Germany.