SA Food Review

Packaging

16 Jul 2018

Rubik’s signs international QSR promotion with McDonald’s

The Smiley Company, master licensee for the Rubik’s Cube, is pleased to announce a deal for Rubik’s to feature in a McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion, which will encourage kids to play smart while enjoying everyone’s favourite food.
16 Jul 2018

‘En-label’ your success

They say don’t judge a book by its cover – but 65 per cent of consumers purchase a product for the first time simply because of its packaging. Every other consumer has chosen a product more frequently because of the packaging.
02 Jul 2018

Are you as smart as retailers?

A recent American survey indicates 90 per cent of retailers will implement buy online, pickup in store by 2021. In addition, South Africa’s ‘click and collect’ capability is growing. Over the last few years, packaging industry professionals have been curious about the future of smart packaging. Whilst barcodes and quick-response (QR) codes were once considered...
13 Jun 2018

Forty years of bag closing excellence

When Buckle Packaging started in 1979, it was with the aim of supplying the agricultural sector with quality end of line packaging machinery. As sole agents for Fischbein – Saxon from the USA and UK, this family run packaging company was able to supply a solution to the bag closing needs of the agricultural industry.
04 Jun 2018

RPC Astrapak acquires the Spec Group

The specialised manufacturer of rigid moulded and thermoformed plastic packaging recently announced its purchase of the Spec Group. This is subject to the finalisation of certain conditions, which will soon be completed.
10 Apr 2018

Talking to … Tim Stewart of ITB Manufacturing

Recently acquired by printing giant Novus Holdings, ITB Manufacturing has grown into a formidable company supplying flexible packaging products. Packaging Review takes a closer look at the person behind ITB Manufacturing’s success, MD Tim Stewart.
28 Mar 2018

South Africa ranks in top 20 trash per capita producers worldwide

Since the nurdle shipping disaster struck the KwaZulu-Natal coastline in October 2017, many South Africans have worked round the clock to clean our beaches getting them ready for the lucrative festive season.
12 Mar 2018

Mondi commits to limiting greenhouse gas emissions

The group has joined the ranks of global climate leaders by signing up to Climate Savers, which is the independent conservation organisation, WWF’s climate leadership programme for businesses. The packaging and paper group commits to reducing its specific production-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 0.25 tonnes CO2e per tonne production by 2050. This commitment and...
26 Feb 2018

Convenient coding with Anser U2 hand-held printer

Coding and marking have come a long way since the concept of a machine-readable barcode was first patented in America in 1949. Innovation in this field has been fuelled by a growing demand for solutions that enable traceability through the entire value chain. It’s also been driven by a demand for coding technology that produces...
12 Feb 2018

Growth in leaps and bounds

A number of representatives of the Global Plastics Alliance (GPA) gathered in Penang, Malaysia from 13 to 15 December 2017 as guests of the Malaysian Plastic Manufacturers Association. The congregation was met with a view on how to accelerate and advance The Declaration of the Global Plastics Associations for Solutions on Marine Litter, which is...