Category: Packaging
Active Packaging, Smart Packaging or Intelligent Packaging refers to the Packaging of Food and Pharmaceuticals with programmable, smart packaging material. Intelligent Packaging can actively and intelligently alter the inner atmosphere of a package to maintain freshness, prevent corrosion, and at the same time provide information on the quality of the food and its freshness to the consumer.
This article is a personal view of Leslie Carr and Scyphus on the Leicestershire ChocFest
Biodegradable Food Service Disposable Containers are fast becoming the standard. With improving technology and better heat resistant bio-plastic resins, this will become the de facto standard in the near future. Leslie Carr of Scyphus, writes about the Biodegradable Disposable Market, its future and how Scyphus Biodegradable Section is coping with the growing demand.
Being part of the paper board packaging industry, and being into specialised food safe paper board packaging, Scyhpus has keen interest in the trends and Leslie Carr writes on the Paperboard Packaging Industry trends here.
Scyphus being a manufacturer of food and beverage packaging products viz. biodegradable and recyclable paper cups and boxes, food safety, food quality and trends in food quality and safety assurance are issues they keep an eye on. In this article, Lez talks about how UK is adopting organic food, increasingly.
Branded paper cups are a winning marketing strategy, printed coffee cups over plain whites and blacks have proven to be a win-win way of brand promotion, but why?
Scyphus had earlier written on QR Codes on Cups and Augmented Reality experiences extended to paper cups. They have written on how 3.3 Million UK consumers scanned a QR code in the 2nd Quarter of 2012, and this is what you needed to make the user engage, interact and convert into a customer much more easily. But since then technology has moved further ahead and we have Shazam to replace QR.
