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That’s how flying avocado Founder and Creative Director Ian Montgomery puts it. To get this out of the way, the name Guacamole Airplane is a play off on Ed Ruscha painting. The studio’s latest supplier guide is said to be “one of the industry’s most robust databases” on a range of sustainable materials and the companies that offer them.

Kellogg began rolling out packaging with NaviLens accessibility features in the United Kingdom in 2022. Initially printed on Special K boxes, the company transitioned all other UK cereal brands to the new packaging throughout the year.

House of Pops, everyone’s favourite healthy treat on a stick, is marking this festive season with a special delivery box from Santa – created by Dubai-based designer Mika.

Mika also turned his hand to a matching greeting card to accompany the special gift box.

CEO Mazen Kanaan says: “We met Mika via Instagram, where he tagged us in a post of a painting he made using House of Pops sticks – and we loved it! So, we reached out to him for a special seasonal packaging collab, and we hope our loyal customers love his take on Christmas as much as we do.”

With the council now able to collect aluminium foil at the kerbside, the initiative aims to raise awareness of the importance of recycling – especially at Christmas, when packaging volumes increase.

Challenging children to create a festive A4 poster design incorporating used (but washed) aluminium foil, eager entrants can sign up to participate through their school. The winning design will take home a £50 cash prize, while their school will receive £500 in vouchers to spend on sustainable supplies and activities.

A Scottish sustainable packaging pioneer has clinched the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 awards' UK Transformational Leader title.

Glasgow-based David MacDonald, owner of Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging, won the national award at the ceremony in Manchester.

A panel of entrepreneurial peers judged him the best of more than 30 semi-finalists and 19 finalists.

NanoMatriX helps textile manufacturers and apparel brands fight counterfeiting and improve customer engagement in the fiercely global textile scenario. NanoMatriX suite of solutions allows textile manufacturers to have full control over the supply chain, protect brands, enhance recall capability, and traceability.

In the Inaugural session Senior officers of the Ministry, PHDCCI, IPMMI, IIP, DGFT,  foreign delegates/speakers from Sri Lanka, UK, Germany, Bangladesh, Italy, Ghana, Nepal, Bhutan, Kenya, Spain, Australia, Myanmar and industry representatives participated in various technical sessions as key speakers. The event is being attended by more than 200 MSMEs.

The new tall, rounded, seamless package is designed to create tangible differentiation in the market for the new benefit-led Minute Maid range – Honey Infused and Vita Punch variants. The package also comes with WingCap 30, one-step opening with DIMC technology, that ensures a perfect grip and great pouring experience. In addition to the package itself, Tetra Pak has also provided the processing and filling equipment for the range, making it an end-to-end partnership. The unique advantage of Tetra Pak’s filling machine is the easy switchover between 500-ml and 1000-ml volumes.

Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses is a fourth-generation family cheesemaker based in rural Lancashire. Butlers handmake British hard, blue and soft cheeses with milk from its own herd of cows and goats. Butlers launched an online cheese store in 2020 to provide a one-stop shop for cheese eating and gifting, delivering nationwide, direct from the dairy to your front door.

The challenge set for BoxWay Packaging was to design a new outer box that allowed for inside and outside printing to share messaging with customers that would both inform and build anticipation.

Everyday thermocol and bubble wraps, in which your favourite crockery or fragile items come packaged in, are non-bio-degradable, and remain in the environment – indestructible – for years, clogging drains and ocean.

Finding an eco-friendly alternative to such materials, two girl students from Hyderabad have made packages from mushrooms. Yes, mushrooms!