Browsing: Packaging
Food packaging has a major impact all the way through the food and beverage industry, from consumer trends and perceptions, retailers’ needs, as well as export and logistics. Discover news, case studies and interviews relating to the food packaging industry in NZ, food packaging manufacturers, machines, plant and factory, products and food packaging trends.
Bottled up: Plant-based milk bottles to land on New Zealand shelves next week
In a New Zealand first, Anchor has announced that it will be trialling new plant-based milk bottles. Continue →
TECHNOLOGY THE KEY TO REDUCING PLASTIC WASTE
Effective recycling is more complicated than many realise – that’s why University of Auckland’s associate professor Johan Verbeek wants to make it easier and cheaper with innovative technology. Continue →
LABELLING OPENS AMERICAN DOORS FOR KIWI SNACK COMPANY
New Zealand business owners Tom Dorman and Luke Cooper are taking on the American market with their healthy snack range, thanks to national product catalogue GS1. Continue →
LABEL THAT FLOATS OFF PLASTIC WINS AWARD
A label that simply ‘floats to the top’ when PET packaging is being recycled has won best in category for Industry Development & Creativity at Pride In Print. Continue →
VPZ: WHEN NATURE PACKS A PUNCH
“Our biogenic packaging solutions combine the highest standards of freshness with respect for the environment and are particularly suited to the food industry.These solutions go by the name of Packnature,” says VPZ. Continue →
The government is investing $3 million in the creation of New Zealand’s first 100 percent recycled plastic food packaging range.
Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage said the grant enables Pact Group to prioritise this project ahead of many others. Continue →
The Sealed Air commitment – packaging with a focus for the future
Sealed Air boasts innovation and sustainability at the heart of its operation. Continue →
Propak Asia 2019 opens 12 June
Known as Asia’s number one packaging and processing exhibition ProPak Asia 2019 will fill the 60,000 square metre location. Continue →
CROXSONS CREATE STANDOUT GLASS BOTTLE FOR NEW ZEALAND CREAMERY
Lewis Road Creamery is a New Zealand based dairy producer, famed for marrying the reinstatement of traditional dairy production, with forward thinking, ethical decision-making. Continue →
LOCAL LABELLING
Apex Labelling has announced both a strategic relationship with Australian company Result Group and the commencement of sales and service supporting Herma labelling heads to the New Zealand market. Continue →
300% Savings Helping Kiwi Companies Say ‘Yes, Nano’
The cynical may sneer at those proclaiming they give ‘110% in effort’. Continue →
Kiwi Fruit Box Inspires Aussie Industry
A cardboard box developed in a Northern Territory shed with inspiration from New Zealand has won its developer an innovation award. Continue →
International packaging community and Anuga FoodTec intensify fight against food waste
NVC (founded in 1953) is the association of companies addressing the activity of packaging throughout the supply chain of packaged products. Continue →
WIMPEX – PACKING FOR SUCCESS
When it comes to powdered food blending and packing in Aotearoa, Christchurch-based Wimpex Ltd is a specialist one-stop-shop for sachets, stick packs, pouch packs, cans, canisters and various options of flexible and rigid packaging. Continue →
Submissions Open for ANZ 2018 PIDA Awards
Entries are now open for the 2018 Packaging & Processing Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA) which are designed to recognise companies and individuals who are making a significant difference in their field in Australia and New Zealand. Continue →
PORT AND PAPER COMBINE
Oji Fibre Solutions and Port of Tauranga have jointly opened a new container warehouse that will provide world-class facilities for paper and timber products including food-product paper bags. Continue →
COFFEE CUP CONUNDRUM
Around 295 million hot and cold cups are used annually in New Zealand, with more than 90% of coffee cup brands either manufactured or sold by The Packaging Forum members, the organisation has been told from findings of a detailed survey. Continue →
PACKAGING – A VITAL INGREDIENT
Food products being exported in today’s market require the packaging to have some form of tamper evidence. Continue →
NEW AUTOMATED PACKAGING SYSTEMS REP IN NEW ZEALAND
Traditional industrial robots have been deployed in manufacturing facilities for decades, but because of practical and economic limitations, manufacturers have only automated approximately 10% of factory tasks, with the other 90% left to humans
Traditional industrial robots have been deployed in manufacturing facilities for decades, but because of practical and economic limitations, manufacturers have only automated approximately 10% of factory tasks, with the other 90% left to humans. Continue →
INNOVATIVE RECYCLING OPTION DEVELOPED BY SEALORD
Sealord has joined recycling specialist TerraCycle to provide consumers with an innovative recycling option for pouch packaging used in its new Tuna Pockets and Tuna Express ranges. Continue →