Category: Packaging
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Oat Cult has secured backing for online breakfast growth plans. The £220k round will support subscriptions, Amazon sales, new flavours, and packaging improvements for its live-culture overnight oats.
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Flexible plastic packaging is now entering a tougher compliance phase. Recycled-content rules and England’s 2027 film collection deadline are forcing manufacturers to revisit material structures, recycling routes, and pack design.
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adapa has extended PaperFlow for recyclable paper food flowpacks today. The material targets snacks, confectionery, cereals, biscuits, and instant coffee.
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Retailers are pressing Brussels for smoother PPWR transition arrangements now. Food packaging teams face stock, documentation, and compliance decisions before August.
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Compass is expanding Cauli’s reusable packaging across foodservice operations nationally. The system uses digital IDs and reverse-vending infrastructure to keep assets circulating.
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Blue Ocean Closures has extended fibre packaging into dispensing formats. Its Paper-Plug range pushes cellulose-based closures further into practical food and drink packaging substitution.
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Gousto is consulting on closing its Lincolnshire Clay Lake site. Production would consolidate around the company’s high-tech Warrington facility.
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Flavourfresh has moved premium tomatoes into paper-based punnets with Paranova. The FibreFresh launch follows investment in Boix forming technology.
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Ishida Europe has appointed Takayo Motegi as its managing director. The change comes as food packing lines become more connected.
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MULTIVAC will host a German meat processing summit this October. It brings automation, packaging, digitalisation, and protein production into one programme.