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Croxsons expands glass expertise into home & beauty sector
By Converter on January 13, 2021To complement its existing core business in supplying glass bottle containers, closures and decoration to international food and beverage brands, leading glass packaging firm, Croxsons, has recently launched a home & beauty division. The move builds on sustained business growth and will see Croxsons provide single-source packaging solutions for brands in this sector, including candles, reed diffusers, perfumes, cosmetics and […] -
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Innovative and recyclable drink cooler made with paperboard
By Converter on December 29, 2020Weilburger Graphics set itself the aim of showcasing a sustainable alternative for food packaging, as a new demo project, and the result was the creation of an innovative and recyclable beverage cooler made from paperboard and employing a completely new waterproof coating. The Germany-based coating, flexo inks and adhesive manufacturer chose strong and lightweight fresh fibre paperboard from Metsä Board, […] -
Boots recycles more one tonne of plastic packaging under new scheme
By Converter on December 15, 2020In September Boots and make-up brand, No.7 launched a new recycling initiative encouraging customers to bring back the empty packaging of hard-to-recycle health, beauty, and wellness products. Since its launch, the scheme has seen 104,235 products deposited using the innovative Scan2Recycle technology, with No7 the top beauty brand that has been recycled. Yorkshire-based recycling company Reworked is taking care of the […] -
Sell-out M&S light-up gin bottles give Wilkins Group a boost
By Converter on December 14, 2020Family-run Wilkins Group has a hit on its hands, as a range of Marks & Spencer snow globe Christmas liqueurs the firm helped develop has proved so popular that M&S has had to limit the number of bottles shoppers can buy. Wilkins developed a new light-up label to help turn the range of M&S gold-leaf-infused Christmas liqueurs into festive snow-globe […] -
Wilkins goes for gold with gin-spired snow globe liqueurs
By Converter on November 24, 2020A family-run Nottingham packaging manufacturer has developed a new light-up label to help turn a range of gold-leaf-infused Christmas liqueurs into festive snow-globe centrepieces. The Colwick-based Wilkins Group, which makes packaging for several of the UK’s best-known supermarkets, spent six months collaborating with Marks & Spencer to refine the design before building the labels for the company’s special ‘Light Snow Globe’ Gin […] -
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Packaging Innovations & Luxury Packaging London postponed
By Converter on November 3, 2020The event will now be held at Olympia London on September 22-23, 2021 . London’s exclusive packaging event Packaging Innovations & Luxury Packaging was set to take place at Olympia December 8-9 this year. However, show organiser, Easyfairs announced today that the event will be postponed until next September. The decision has been made following consultation with the packaging industry […]