Packaging And Design

New Food Alliance Aims To Make Plastic Packaging More Sustainable

Nine of Ireland’s leading agricultural processing and food businesses have come together to form the Plastics Action Alliance in order to make the pl...

Rio Tinto, Nespresso Join Forces To Make Coffee Pods Greener

Nespresso, part of food giant Nestle, aims to use sustainable aluminium in all of its coffee pods by 2020 under a deal with mining major Rio Tinto announce...

Musgrave Sign Low Carbon Pledge To Reduce Carbon Emissions By 2030

Musgrave has announced that it was one of 40 companies that have signed the Low Carbon Pledge made by the Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) network...

Irish Shoppers Believe Retailers Should Do More To Reduce Plastic Packaging: Nielsen

91% of respondents believe retailers should do more to reduce the amount of packaging used on grocery products a Nielsen survey finds New research from...

Smurfit Kappa Group Announces Agreement With FHB and Avala Ada

Smurfit Kappa Group plc has announced the agreement to acquire Fabrika Hartije d.o.o. Beograd (‘FHB’) paper mill and Avala Ada d.o.o. Beograd (...

Revenue At Smurfit Kappa Rises 7% For First Nine Months Of 2018

Packaging giant Smurfit Kappa revealed today (Wednesday, 31 October) that its underlying revenue grew over 7% year-on-year in the first nine months of &nbs...

Food Drink Ireland Hosts Industry Briefing On Future Of Packaging

Food Drink Ireland (FDI) today hosted an industry briefing on the future of plastic packaging and reaffirmed its commitment to the circular economy of pack...

EU Says Plastics Recycling Pledges Fall Short

More action will be needed for the European Union to boost the market for recycled plastics after pledges from companies fell short, EU executive said...