Plastics

European packaging firm Coveris has developed a new shrink film for multi-pack products that is fully recyclable and is composed of more than 50% post-consumer recyclate.

These are changing times for pulp and paper makers. While mill and machinery closures across Europe and the UK have resulted in shrinking capacity, particularly for graphical paper grades, this has...

CorrBoard Bioenergy (CB Bio) has invested £5.5m in building a sustainable energy generation facility fuelled by organic waste to power the manufacture of corrugated sheet board.

In the past couple of years, plastic has increasingly found itself at the heart of any conversation about sustainability.

Staeger Clear Packaging is now able to manufacture its recycled PET from post-consumer waste fully sourced in the UK.

Wrights Plastics has taken on a new Canon Océ Arizona 6170 XTS flatbed to increase productivity.

Swanline Paper & Board has committed itself to becoming an entirely plastic-free business by the start of 2020, while saving money for its clients.

ABC Imaging has taken environmental matters into its own hands with the launch of its new Printers Against Plastic initiative.

As an industry that uses plastics on a daily basis, what do UK print and packaging businesses really feel when they hear the material being berated?

What Nitecrest needed was a more flexible friend in a printroom that produces 5 million credit, gift, loyalty and membership cards every day. The firm spends big on technology because it cannot afford...