technology

Four Peaks Brewing today announced its partnership with CIRT Inc. (Can I Recycle This?), becoming the first beverage company in the country to include CIRT’s digital, location-based recycling tool on all of its packaging. 

The Group introduces two cutting-edge solutions: IMA Sandbox and IMA AlgoMarket, with the aim of further enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services offered to customers.

These initiatives mark a milestone in the multinational's digitalization strategy, underscoring the Group's continuous commitment to adopting and implementing emerging technologies to rethink new ways of supporting partners and customers.

Advancing our mission to make self-care and health information accessible to all, Bayer Consumer Health UK, in partnership with Zappar, has introduced a new Accessible QR code (AQR) on its Canescool Soothing Gel Cream product packaging to help those who are blind or partially sighted.

Canescool is the world’s first women’s intimate health brand to adopt AQR codes on its product packaging and gives the over 200,000* women who are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK improved access to information on its product.

Leading finishing equipment manufacturer, A B Graphic International (ABG), has introduced its 4th-generation Converter platform. The platform incorporates numerous customer-led innovations, all designed to allow converters to produce more with less.  

Able to achieve running speeds of up to 250m/min, the system handles both printed and blank web materials, thereby enhancing productivity and streamlining production cycles. Its flexo technology offers high print quality, registration accuracy and speed.  

In an industry first for UK construction, The Pallet LOOP today announces that each reusable green pallet it produces and puts into the sector will be fitted with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag – a move that is set to generate huge amounts of data about the movement of pallets and associated building materials nationwide as they pass through the supply chain.

Its Wash VOID function is triggered when an attempt is made to remove the label, displaying text that reads ‘TAMPERED’. Removal attempts involving heat will cause parts of the label to turn orange, while attempts involving colder temperatures will cause the label to turn blue.

These adjustments are intended to inform consumers if a pack has been tampered with while also ensuring that the seal is recyclable at end-of-life.