Supermarket giant Tesco is to scrap best before dates on its fruit and vegetables in a bid to fight food waste.

The global corrugated packaging market is set to grow to almost $383bn (£270bn) by 2023, with e-commerce providing a prime area of future opportunities.

Nestlé has announced its ambition to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.  Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimise the impact of packaging on the environment.

Smurfit Kappa is installing the new HP PageWide C500 digital press – HP’s most technologically advanced digital press for corrugated application. The press will be installed in Smurfit Kappa’s Interwell plant in Austria, and is designed for greater customisation and flexibility of corrugated printing, the new industrial-scale press will be the first commercial HP single pass press in Europe. The press will be installed in April and will support Smurfit Kappa’s extensive customer base in the FMCG sector. With a fully integrated stack-to-stack workflow, the press combines digital simplicity with off-set replaceable print quality on both coated and uncoated paper.…

Leading food company Alliance Group has dispatched its first major shipment of product in vacuum skin tray packaging to Hong Kong following a successful trial.

Unilever has announced a partnership to pioneer a new technology which converts PET waste back into virgin grade material for use in food packaging.

Iceland Foods has launched two new major product ranges for the ready meals market packed in Stora Enso paperboard trays.  With its 900 stores, Iceland Foods accounts for 30% of frozen ready meal sales in the UK, and the business is growing.

Jan 31, 2018  -  Saudi Arabian packaging company Noor Carton is reporting successful production using its two Rapida 106 coater presses. KB Rapida Saudi.  The company erected its new plant in 2015, and a six-colour Rapida 106 with coater and extended delivery has been in production since then.

Jan 20, 2018  -  Tetra Pak has pledged to support the European Commission’s Plastics Strategy, announced this week as part of the EU Action Plan for a Circular Economy.  The carton giant said it will work with industry partners to ensure that by 2030, recycling solutions are in place for all components of beverage cartons so they can be fully recycled across Europe.

Jan 18, 2018  -  More Tongan fresh produce will be exported to international markets with the opening of new pack houses in Tonga.  This should make a big difference to farmers who will be able to sell their crops and other products for export to New Zealand, said Edgar Cocker, CEO of Tonga’s Ministry Commerce, Trade, Innovation and Labour.

Jan 10, 2018  -  DS Smith’s UK packaging division has partnered with The Amazing Chocolate Workshop once again to develop and test new e-commerce packaging.  The mission of the Amazing Chocolate Workshop is to ‘take the boundaries of chocolate to a whole new level’ – creating a world of mesmerising, mind-boggling and quirky chocolate creations. Its chocolate products are hand-made to look exactly like everyday objects such as tools, cameras, kitchen utensils and other paraphernalia.