Packaging

VCG Group chief executive leaves company

VCG Group chief executive Mick Tooley has left the design and retail packaging specialist after 25 years of service.

Middleton targets packaging and large-format growth and sells recycling division

West-Midlands based merchant and convertor Middleton Paper has made a multimillion-pound investment in kit and stock as it focuses its growth plans on the packaging and large-format sector after...

CS Labels makes Canon investment for proofing

Digital label printer CS Labels has invested in a Canon imagePrograf iPF 6450 large-format printer to enable it to provide colour-accurate proofs.

Visitors up 10% at Packaging Innovations London

Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London reported a record turn-out with visitor numbers up 10% year-on-year to 3,930.

New bespoke digital packaging firm opens in South Wales

Welsh chocolate manufacturer Michton has opened a new digitally printed packaging subsidiary called Personalised Printed Products.

Chapelton to offer Smurfit Kappa's Catcher Board MB12

Speciality and cartonboard supplier Chapelton Board will distribute Smurfit Kappa’s new packaging product, the Catcher Board MB12, into the UK packaging sector.

Copypoll secures brace of UK firsts

Copypoll Print and Packaging has scored a double UK first, ordering two new packaging finishing lines from Brausse.

SPGPrints launches low-migration UV-inkjet inks

Screen and digital print equipment manufacturer SPGPrints has launched a range of low-migration UV inkjet inks to comply with food safety regulations and meet growing demand for digitally printed food...

Chapelton Board and Warren to distribute IP Alaska Plus paper in the UK

US paper giant International Paper (IP) has announced that its new GC2 lightweight coated board product Alaska Plus will be stocked and distributed in the UK by Chapelton Board and Warren.

Packaging Innovations product launch details announced

Further information about the product launches, exhibitors and speakers that will feature at the Packaging Innovations London 2014 and Luxury Packaging London events have been revealed.

AB Group Packaging and PEFC encourage paper bag use

AB Group Packaging and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) are encouraging brand owners, retailers and consumers to use more paper bags as an alternative to plastic.

Coveris buys second UK packaging firm in three months

Acquisitive packaging group Coveris has bought its second UK firm in three months with a deal for £20m turnover Learoyd Packaging.