SA Food Review

Packaging

23 Nov 2020

INTELLECT Vision Glue-On Labels ensure the integrity of labelled bottles

FILTEC’s INTELLECT Vision Glue-On Label solution for bottles ensures that only well-presented, correctly labelled bottles are shipped, helping promote sales and repeat business, while reducing customer complaints. The Vision Glue-On Label solution inspects paper, plastic and ceramic labels that cover the neck and body areas of each bottle following the labeller. Unique technology Accurate registration...
16 Nov 2020

A recycling line for used beverage cartons

Stora Enso and Tetra Pak have come together to explore the possibility of creating a new recycling line to significantly increase the recycling of used beverage cartons in Central and Eastern Europe. The partners are initiating a feasibility study to assess the viability of building a large-scale recycling line for Used Beverage Cartons (UBC) at...
26 Oct 2020

Webinar explores opportunities in packaging in the new normal

Specialised Exhibitions collaborates with New Media on a highly successful Propak Cape packaging industry webinar. Having been postponed from October 2020 to June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Propak Cape will celebrate its 21st anniversary next year. Although disappointed that the 2020 Propak Cape exhibition had to be rescheduled, Specialised Exhibitions – in collaboration...
26 Oct 2020

Omron launches HD-1500 mobile robot with immense payload capacity

Industry-leading HD-1500 from Omron expands the possibilities for autonomous material transport.  Omron has announced the launch of the HD-1500, the strongest and latest addition to the company’s series of mobile robots. The new HD-1500 boasts a heavy payload capacity of up to 1 500kg. It is ideal for modern factories, where autonomous material handling solutions need to manage more...
22 Oct 2020

Krones and O-I Glass sign collaboration agreement to elevate glass

O-I Glass and Germany’s Krones signed a strategic collaboration agreement that aims to elevate glass by innovating together and to jointly create solutions for the growing glass market. “For O-I, glass is the preferred packaging solution in a world that increasingly values health, premium products and the environment. Not only does it maintain the integrity...
09 Oct 2020

Shouldn’t all packaging be intelligent?

BY: Dale Tomlinson, CEO The Hardy Boys Looking back, great packaging, that which separates the persuasive from the predictable, packaging that has long since successfully transitioned from container to communicator…. is intelligent packaging. All packaging should at its most fundamental be inseparable from a brands DNA. As the ultimate ‘always on’ consumer dialogue packaging should...
01 Oct 2020

KHS launches eco-friendly can packaging system

The KHS Group has added another environmentally-friendly system to its portfolio. With its tried-and-tested Innopack Kisters tray packers the systems supplier now enables cans of food and beverage to be wrapped in paper. Replace shrink film The new technology can replace shrink film or wrap-around carton packaging for transportation or sale on packs of 12...
30 Sep 2020

Rotolabel S&N Labels rebrands to S&N Labels

Rotolabel S&N Labels will be rebranding to S&N Labels on 1 October 2020 to focus on its core offering and to grow market share. S&N Labels will remain part of the Labelling Division of The Bidvest Group.  This follows the acquisition of the S&N Labels by the Bidvest Group in September 2017 and the integration...
28 Sep 2020

South Africa must use safer packaging for traditional beer

BY: Raymond Dube – Nampak Liquid Cartons managing director  Traditional sorghum beer is woven into the rich history of South Africa but in the current context how can producers use appropriate packaging to ensure the beer that is sold is hygienic and safe to drink?  Since lockdown was implemented at the end of March 2020, South Africans from all...
18 Sep 2020

HERMA wins German Packaging Award 2020

The German Packaging Institute has awarded the specialist for self-adhesive technology HERMA the German Packaging Award 2020 in the “Sustainability” category. The PE label, developed in collaboration with schäfer-etiketten and Polifilm, is made entirely from post-consumer recycled material from PE packaging generated from the collection of recyclable materials. It is possibly the first of its...

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