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With over 80 years of history, DS Smith is one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services, covering the entire packaging supply cycle. The group, located in 37 countries, has been in Spain since 2015. We spoke to its general manager for Spain and Portugal, Ignacio Montfort. You have been managing director of DS Smith Iberia since 2019, possibly a period that you…

Ear Flap has been manufacturing packaging machinery, especially automatic and semi-automatic pallet wrappers, for more than 20 years. With a presence in more than 50 countries, at Hispack it will present its new automatic forming and packing system, the BPP150, which it has been working on for the last year and which it has developed thanks to an R&D&I centre that is a pioneer in end-of-line machinery projects.   Hispack…

We spoke to several professionals in the sector to get their views on an increasingly integrated and interconnected process. Each product and sector has specific features according to the process, but they all retain several similarities. Considering packaging throughout the entire value chain, from the conditioning and packaging process, to logistics, presentation and delivery is essential. In this regard, the director of Repaq Packaging Consulting, Montse Castillo, states that “the impact…

The need to adapt to a new context during the pandemic and its aftermath has led to structural changes in most sectors. However, for any business, expanding abroad has always been, is and will be an opportunity to grow and improve its turnover. This also applies to the Spanish packaging industry, which has long looked abroad to diversify its risks and become stronger and less dependent on domestic demand.

The pandemic has accelerated the digitalisation of many sectors, including packaging, which has focused its interest into technologies that improve security and traceability in supply chains. Here, the connected packaging gains relevance by offering solutions that guarantee the authenticity and information on the journey that each product has made. Similarly, Covid-19 has increased consumers’ concern regarding both general hygiene and food hygiene which provides an opportunity to promote the technologies…

Although the language of colour is by no means universal, it is nonetheless crucial in making an impact and communicating visually, and thus create a brand identity and draw the consumer’s attention, appealing to their emotions and awakening their senses. Khiel’s Luminosity. Laia Fusté’s project for the Cosmetics Packaging workshop. Academic year 2013-2014. Good packaging aims to connect with the consumer in under 8 seconds, the time some studies estimate…

The immediate future presents some challenges for packaging which will be essential, both in physical stores as well as in the e-commerce channel. We analyse the strength of packaging in the food sector and the changes and trends in the face of an increasingly safety conscious and demanding consumer. Purchasing and consumption habits have changed since the Covid outbreak and everything points to the fact that some of…

The “new normal” is a term we’ve become accustomed to in recent weeks following the outbreak of COVID-19 in our lives. This prevailing reality is also having a direct impact on the entire value chain of the packaging, processing and logistics sector, which is demonstrating that its strength is, now more than ever before, unarguable. Below we list ten trends set to affect packaging in the post-Covid era. Health and…

What has the response been like in terms of supply and logistics? Which weaknesses have surfaced? What are the challenges facing us in the post-Covid era? We’ll attempt to answer these and other questions with Ramón García, Director of Innovation and Projects at the CEL (Spanish Logistics Centre), and Pedro Gil, Director of Transport for the Día Group. Unexpectedly, within a matter of days, the industry has witnessed three scenarios,…

With the slogan #LaFuerzadelPackaging, Hispack highlights the value of the contributions of the packaging industry, as well as the effort and work of companies and professionals in this industry to deal with the pandemic. At the same time, Hispack advocates and forecasts that packaging will be a strategic industry when it comes to relaunching the economic activity of all the productive and commercial industries in the new normal that will…