Award winners show their wares

6 September 2011



Packaging Innovations London 2011 is set to play host to an array of award-winning packaging suppliers from 6-7 October at the Business Design Centre, Islington


Packaging Innovations London 2011 has attracted a group of elite exhibitors. By all accounts, it will be ‘the place to be for any brand manager, designer, creative and forward thinker who is scouting for the very latest in packaging innovations, as some of the world’s very best companies descend on the UK capital to launch their latest products and services’.

Opening its doors on 6-7 October at the Business Design Centre in Islington, the show will be divided into five main areas: the Design Village, Luxury Packaging, Print for Packaging, Contract Pack, and EcoPack. With more than 150 top companies from across the globe already confirmed to exhibit, it is expected to be a huge success and ‘a real highlight for both London and the packaging industry’.

Award winning exhibitors

One of the companies displaying its latest packaging innovations at the show will be Miller Graphics Corniche (stand J10). It is still celebrating after packaging produced using its LiNX technology picked up a Gold at the recent European Flexographic Industry Association print awards. Hailed as a ‘groundbreaking’ technology, it enables photographic quality print. Weetabix, Peters Foods, Gardman Horticulture, Whitby Seafoods and Cémoi Confectionery are reportedly LiNX users.

Another award-winning company exhibiting is Windsor, UK-based agency Touch Design (stands GB1 and GB2). Touch Design has designed the identity, positioning, graphics and structural packaging for Bridgeheads’ new cheese, Chunky Cheese, which won in the Best Branded Packaging category at the recent International Cheese Awards, beating more than 3,700 entrants from 26 countries.

Guy Harrison, Touch Design’s chairman, says: “We set out to capitalise on the growth of the adult lunchbox market and on-the-go snacking. Most snacking cheeses currently on the market are aimed at children, or tend to be brand extensions of block cheeses rather than real snack cheeses.”

The wrapper of each cheese can be ripped open so that it can be eaten as a hand-held snack on the go, with high impact, bold colourways, in a gourmet bistro style, yet it retains strong ‘appetite appeal’ for its adult audience. The new packs begin to roll out from September.

Flying the green flag will be Innovia Films (stand VG17), global manufacturer of BOPP and cellulose films used in the packaging and labels industries, which was recently honoured with an Environmental Leadership Award at the 2011 Chemical Industry Association (CIA) Awards.

Wayne Horsley, environmental manager at Innovia’s Wigton, UK, site, comments: “It was an honour for Innovia Films to receive this prestigious award. This is an acknowledgement and celebration of the hard work by all colleagues on our Wigton cellulose plant in recent years and demonstrates our on-going commitment as a company to minimising our environmental impact.”

Innovia will be exhibiting in the EcoPack section of the show, and will be showcasing its latest developments in cellulose films, including NatureFlex, a bio-film made from over 90% renewable resources (wood pulp).

New product and service launches

Elsewhere at the show, Chesapeake Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Packaging (stand A1a), a global supplier of pharmaceutical packaging and related services, will be showcasing its new pack for GSK’s Aquafresh White & Shine oral care product with a striking holographic print effect. This eye-catching effect - Glint - helps to create the impression of movement and adds a 3D quality to the pack.

John Moore, key account manager at Chesapeake, explains: “Glint provides an eyecatching effect that helps to emphasise the product’s qualities. Glint helps to differentiate the product and provides a pearlescent finish that has to be seen to be believed. It adds a real feeling of movement, which helps to ensure that a product gets noticed on the supermarket’s shelf.”

Leading hotmelt adhesives manufacturer Beardow Adams (stand B6) is set to showcase its new BAMFutura 51 adhesive. The product combines ‘unrivalled versatility with outstanding performance’, states the company.

Nick Beardow, sales and marketing director at Beardow Adams, explains: “BAMFutura 51 is unlike any other packaging adhesive currently available. First, it has been developed to bond strongly to a wide range of packaging materials, from PP, PET and varnish-coated board to metallised polyester. Therefore, where manufacturers may have previously used several different adhesives, they can now replace these with BAMFutura 51, freeing up storage space while saving time and money.”

Experts from Beardow Adams will be on the stand to discuss BAMFutura 51 and the company’s other hotmelt adhesives that are suitable for a wide range of packaging applications. Visit stand B6 to find out more.

Another exhibitor, MMR Research Worldwide (stand GB22) has bolstered its packaging research credentials to clients in the food, drink, personal care and household goods sectors by hiring one of the industry’s leading packaging research experts, Stergios Bititsios. Bititsios has worked with many leading FMCG brands and packaging innovators in a variety of product sectors, such as AirWick, Nurofen, Finish and Heinz.

“This is an exciting and natural strategic move for MMR Research Worldwide,” says Mat Lintern, MMR’s managing director. “MMR is respected for delivering consumer insight in a meaningful way to the heart of the R&D process for product and brand development, providing data that can be translated into actionable design guidelines. With Stergios on board, we can deepen that support by helping to create packaging that influences consumer choice and enhances the consumption experience.”

Visitors to the show will also meet Creative Direction (on the Duccio Concepts stand GB5) which has just launched the new packaging for Furniss Biscuits.

Walki Group (stand GB32), producer of technical laminates and protective packaging materials, will be showcasing its Walki-Lid for the dairy sector.

Rexam High Barrier Food Containers (stand C5) is bringing a range of plastics microwaveable containers for long shelf life, ambient, convenience foods. Some packs can be heat-sealed while others can be double-seamed with an easy-open or easy-peel metal end and run on existing can filling lines, at conventional speeds and efficiencies, with limited investment.

Clinical Print Finishers, of Leicester, UK, (stand A2) has a new range of small-format print finishing services. The firm’s operations director Alan Pickles says: “Exhibiting allows us to have an influence on our customer’s decision making for their future projects. They are able to see the added value that specialised miniature finishing can offer with far greater clarity then they would with a brochure or a phone call.”

All the way from Finland comes Stora Enso (stand C8) for the UK launch of Cupforma Natura - a board that offers drinking cup manufacturers a ‘more economical and ecological’ alternative.

And why launch a product when you can use the show as a springboard for a whole new business, as Collcap Packaging (stand F3) will be doing? Customers will be able to purchase the exact quantity they need through No-moq.com (no minimum order quantity) of Kilner jars and jam jars, tubes and bottles, Japanese-designed pots and tubs, and more.

To see all these and many more attractions at Packaging Innovations London 2011, visitors can register online to receive their free, fast track entry badge.


New packaging for Furniss Biscuits by Creative Direction Creative Kilner jars available from Collcap Colcap High barrier food containers to be introduced by Rexam Rexam

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