Packaging

A “plain packaging” policy on food and beverage brands could result in a potential loss of $293bn (£219bn) for the beverage industry globally, new research has warned.

Offset Print & Packaging is poised to take on five people left out of work following the collapse of Stones Ashford.

Rapidity has printed packaging for the joint winner of BBC One reality show The Apprentice.

Needham Coding has launched a new range of drop-on-demand inkjet printers targeted at secondary packaging applications.

Independent cartonboard and graphical board stockist Warren has added Mayr-Melnhof’s Accurate Freeze GR Kit 9-11 to its range of folding boxboard products.

Former Müller head of packaging Haulwen Nicholas has launched a new consultancy to help packaging firms with environmental viability.

DS Smith has posted revenue growth of 19% but a 1% fall in pre-tax profit in its half-year results.

Magnet Harlequin has launched a new integrated offering that pulls together its own services with those of its sister creative agencies, to deliver cost and efficiency savings for clients.

Flint Group and Sun Chemical have separately announced price rises for packaging inks and coatings, effective from 1 January 2018.

Flexible packaging manufacturer Skymark has invested £750,000 in its first laser slitter, a new Universal X6lp.