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The research business, which announced earlier this week that it was rebranding from its previous name pira international, said that the growth would be driven by emerging markets in asia pacific, latin america, central and eastern europe and the middle east and africa. In the study, &lsquothe future of global pet packaging to 2017&prime, smithers pira predicts that in asia pacific, south america and central and eastern europe, growing incomes and the adoption of pet packs for products previously packed in other materials would drive the markets.

The technology, called &lsquostack & pack,&rsquo could be on the market by 2013. Switzerlandbased sidel unveiled its new technology at the anuga foodtech show in germany. The packaging giant said that a deeperthanusual concave indentation at the base of each bottle enables highly efficient stacking.

The ecostacker plastic drum range has been developed to overcome key ecological, transport, handling and pouring issues that have previously been associated with large containers in order to deliver an unrivalled performance in terms of safety, strength, stability and value. In a statement rpc said that its &lsquosafepour&rsquo antiglug system was unique.

It launched new guidance yesterday 10 may which provides local authorities with practical advice on how best to collect nonbottle rigid plastics in a drive to push up recycling and reduce contamination at reprocessing plants. One key message wrap issued was to keep flexible material separate from rigids. Flexible packaging, for example films and single use carrier bags, is difficult to separate out mechanically and commonly results in lowergrade bales being produced.

Wrap has published a new technical guide that aims to help local authorities increase plastic bottle recycling rates today 30 january, called kerbside collection of plastic bottles guide. In the guide, the organisation notes that most uk material and plastic recovery facilities were designed for input material that is close to 40 pet, 40 hdpe and 20 other. However, it said that feedstock is changing to include a greater proportion of nonbottle rigid plastic packaging.

The consultancy rebranded the range in 2006, and was tasked with redesigning the packs to create greater onshelf standout. It was appointed to the project in early december last year without a pitch. The change in packaging accompanies a wider overhaul of the brand&rsquos products, with some recipes changed and some pack sizes decreased. New individual cereal pots designed by big fish have also been introduced.

The consultancy began working on the project in december last year, having worked with weetabix as its sole packaging agency for about four or five years. The fuel britannia logo is a subversion of the british anthem rule britannia, and aims to highlight weetabix&rsquos slowrelease energy. Jo chekroun, strategic account director at springetts, says &lsquothe brief was about how to communicate the festiveness lying ahead for 2012 in an ownable way.

The inkjet machine was unveiled at print show drupa latches onto the growing demand for short run, fast turnaround labels. The machine is currently a prototype and will also be on show in september at label expo. It&rsquos likely to be commercially available in the first quarter of 2013. Screen also presented the b2 sheetfed truepress jetsx inkjet press, which accommodates thicker substrates including cartonboard. At drupa, the machine featured both uv clear inkbased digital embossing and glitter effects.

Londonbased branding agency path has created new identities for two major cooking sauce brands in the uk ragu and chicken tonight. The relaunches follow the recent purchase of the two brands from unilever by privately held foods group symington&rsquos, based in leeds, uk. Ragu is being repositioned, with new recipes, to highlight its italianamerican heritage, dating back to 1937 in rochester, new york.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate cagr of about 15 to 20 per cent annually, the indian packaged food industry is likely to touch 30 billion by 2015 from the current level of 15 billion including snack foods, readytoeat foods, healthy and functional foods. This was revealed by the associated chambers of commerce and industry of india assocham in an industryspecific analysis.