Category: Packaging
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JBM Packaging has opened new contract-packing capacity in southwest Ohio. The 52,500-square-foot Lebanon facility adds filling, kitting, warehousing, and packaging capability while releasing space at the company’s existing headquarters for further paper-packaging equipment.
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Tesco has recalled coleslaw after an allergen labelling error emerged. Some packs may contain a different potato-salad product containing mustard, creating a risk because the allergen is not declared on the exterior label.
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deltaH has moved its self-cooling beverage can towards commercial launch. Brains Brewery’s Bayside Welsh Lager will provide a branded application of the system, which uses a contained endothermic reaction to cool the drink without conventional refrigeration.
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Go-Pak has launched embossed festive hot cups for Christmas 2026. The double-wall range combines three mixed colourways with a tactile surface, reducing the need for separate sleeves or bespoke seasonal print runs.
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Belgium is testing digital watermarks across flexible food packaging nationally. The HolyGrail 2030 trial aims to create a sortable food-contact polypropylene stream for future recycling.
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Researchers propose chemical grouping to address food packaging safety gaps. The method identifies 38 priority groups and provides screening tools for packaging developers managing substitutions and incomplete hazard data.
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Germany has updated its national method for measuring packaging recyclability. The 2026 standard quantifies recoverable material by weight and gives pack developers a practical benchmark as PPWR implementation advances.
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Amcor will showcase UniPak Luma at Stockholm’s Empack packaging exhibition. The polypropylene platform extends its lightweight rigid range across dairy, chilled, ambient-filled, and dry-food applications.
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BW Converting expands Pour & Lok across resealable food packaging. The pre-applied closure can run through conventional form-fill-seal equipment and targets pourable products including cereals, snacks, nuts, seeds, and selected frozen foods.
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Vetropack has completed another major phase of St-Prex decommissioning work. Furnace 21 is dismantled, 8,000 tonnes of material have left the site, and reusable equipment is being transferred across the group.