The IPSA Gold Pack Awards are a prestigious biennial event showcasing the best of SA's packaging industry. The 2017 winners were announced at a banquet in Gauteng on November 22, with Mpact’s Plastics division taking several top honours for a food package.
Carton packaging for dairy, juice, and food is the healthy, sustainable option that meets the modern lifestyle needs of busy people, asserts Tetra Pak.
Austrian plastic packaging group, Alpla, has agreed to acquire South Africa's Boxmore Packaging, a leading PET player, for an undisclosed sum.
Flexible packaging has quickly become a popular choice among consumers and consumer goods producers due to its cost efficiency and convenience. However, lack of sustainability and low premium appeal are hindering its growth.
Unilever has developed ‘a groundbreaking new technology’ that will enable the food industry to recycle used multi-layer sachets.
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Today’s consumers are a demanding bunch and shelf impact is no longer enough to win them over. Tetra Pak has outlined five macro-trends that are having an impact on consumer behaviour and their interaction with brands and products.
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Can you judge a burger by its wrapper? Well it's no surprise that fast food isn't the best thing to eat for your health. Now, researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found another reason to try to keep your Mac attacks at bay.
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US canned vegetable and fruit producer, McCall Farms, has become the first to use a clear, plastic retort can for a line of slow-cooked vegetables, adding excitement to a stagnant category.
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BPA, or bisphenol A, is a controversy-mired industrial chemical used to make plastics and resins which are often used in containers that store food and beverages. So, should you worry if its used in your food cans? For complex decisions such as whether to use...
Introducing the world's first sealed paper packaging - enabling production of dust-tight packaging for dry products such as sugar, grains, flour or powders using sustainable mono-material paper, and no polymer components.
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An innovative product on show at the Propak Africa expo in March was Polystar’s bulk baler bags, offered as a viable alternative to wooden pallets.
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There is an exciting new packaging agency collaboration in town. For the first time in South Africa, brand owners have access to a high-calibre packaging and brand design skills combined with the renowned expertise of one of the country’s most highly-regarded packaging technologists and project...
Looking to 2016, Mintel has announced six key trends set to impact global packaging markets over the next year, including implications for both consumers and brands. Here's a synopsis, but you can download the whole report for FREE!
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This is the fast food chain like you've never seen it before...
Shopping for online for shoes, furniture or electronics is easy, but when it comes to perishable food, the distribution and packaging issues take on new complexity. Now a Swedish start-up has devised a solution for this in the iFoodbag, a paper-based bag that will keep...
The IPSA Gold Pack Awards is the biennial showcase for the South African packaging industry and from its inception in 1973 it has grown into an event of considerable importance and prestige. The 2015 awards were recently presented in Jo'burg...
South Africa's ZZ2, a world leader in tomato production, has come up with an innovative new way to package some of its many tomato variants.
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The power of teamwork to transform ideas into products that say ‘buy me’, is truly evidenced by the collaboration of Didget Printing, its sister company Trempak and long-time client, Jab Dried Fruit, on a project for Pick n Pay.
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One of Norway's biggest food groups, Orkla, has signed a licensing agreement with LiquiGlide to use its slippery coating for mayonnaise products in the Nordics, Germany, Benelux and the Baltics.
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Stafford's has redesigned its packaging to integrate its heritage with modern design - and the end result is striking.
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