13 Aug Plastic backlash or paper pushback?
Fast food brands and convenience meal retailers in SA are wrestling with the realities of rising costs and shrinking margins – and packaging decisions are often caught in the crossfire.
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07 Dec South Africans eager for less packaging, better recycling
A new global Ipsos survey finds 80% of "connected" people around the world believe manufacturers should be obliged to help with the recycling and re-use of the packaging they produce. This sentiment is shared by 86% of South Africans who have access to the Internet.
28 Mar Mintel’s top global packaging trends for 2019 and beyond
Mintel, the world’s leading market intelligence agency, has announced four trends impacting the global packaging industry in 2019 and beyond.
27 Jan Demand for active and intelligent packaging set to boom
Demand for active and intelligent packaging is expected to outstrip total packaging demand growth, according to a new study from Freedonia Group. Active and intelligent packaging demand is forecast to expand 8% annually to $3.5 billion in 2017 in the US alone, the research predicts....
02 Aug Spectacular success of stand-up pouches
Stand-up pouches are an ever popular choice for brand owners looking for innovative ways to market their products. This article takes a look at this burgeoning sector of the flexible packaging market....
09 May Why the FDA hasn’t banned potentially toxic BPA (yet)
His name was Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim and his contemporaries called him Paracelsus, but history knows him by this title: the Father of Toxicology. Paracelsus was a 16th century Swiss physician who profoundly influenced our understanding of how chemicals...
26 Mar What’s cooking: trends in food
"What’s Cooking? Trends in Food" is a brilliant FREE downloadable presentation by JWTIntelligence on the key trends driving food, from both FMCG and culinary perspectives. It surveys what’s changing when it comes to how we find, cook and eat food, how we think about what...
15 Mar Global demand for aseptic packaging to approach $36-billion by 2015
World demand for aseptic packaging is projected to grow 9.1 percent per year to $35.8 billion in 2015. Advances will be driven by the increasing number of applications and the cost and convenience benefits associated with aseptic packaging (especially in terms of ambient storage...
15 Jul SA to ban bisphenol A in baby bottles
This news escaped FSA's radar at the time...
29 Jun Seven packaging predictions for a resource-strapped future
How will packaging be affected by a future marked by explosive population growth and insufficient resources? At an American symposium recently, SPS 2011, or Sustainable Packaging Symposium, Tony Kingsbury, executive-in-residence, Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley, and an executive with Dow Chemical, shared...