With immediate effect, the international folding boxboard database of the FFI e.V. (FFI) is open for data entry by carton manufacturers. (FFI) is now open for data entry by cartonboard manufacturers. Carton manufacturers are thus invited to enter data on their products into the database. The database will be activated for users after a data entry phase of about five weeks.

Market trends. New products, design and technology. These topics will be explored on 27 April 2021 in a live web event organized by SACMI in collaboration with Aptar and McKinsey
Sustainability, safety, e-commerce. Three vital pillars of the post-COVID “next normal” in packaging that SACMI will explore together with packaging multinational Aptar.

Pro Carton Young Designers Award celebrates the sustainable packaging solutions of the future

Entries are now open for Europe's leading annual packaging competition for young designers. Pro Carton is calling on students to put their carton design skills to work in the coming months for the chance to win the Pro Carton Young Designers Award - an award that allows anyone interested in a career in the thriving packaging industry to demonstrate their potential.

INX International Ink Co., the market leader for metal decorating inks and color management technologies, is calling attention to an approaching deadline. All beverage brand owners and marketers, breweries, can makers, design agencies and others have until April 30 to submit entries for the second annual Colored by INX Can Design Contest.

Leader in sustainable paper-based packaging solutions, Graphic Packaging International ('Graphic Packaging') is set to host a free, informative webinar that will examine the transition from plastic to paperboard for multipacks.

Curtain up for the German Packaging Award 2021! Companies, organisations and individuals have until 15 May to submit their innovations and best solutions to Europe’s most prestigious showcase for packaging. The competition, organised by the German Packaging Institute (dvi), covers 10 categories and is held under the patronage of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. It covers all industries and materials, and is open to submissions from Germany and abroad.

Meanwhile, the web expresses its opinion with the Mediterranean packaging “ITsocase” receiving the most votes from the community of enthusiasts and sector workers, with 815 "likes".

From refined boxes of tea to perfume packaging and high-fashion shopper bags; from labels that are veritable works of art for artisan beers, fine wines, spirits and gourmet preserves, to premium illustrated catalogues, calendars, art books and branded company accessories. This is the world of Fedrigoni materials, used by the 17 finalists for their designs, who are now gearing up for the final challenge before the Fedrigoni Top Award ceremony in Paris, in June 2021.

Focus on MEA’s agrofood & plastprintpack sector on 31 May to 02 June

After the great success of Virtual agrofood & plastprintpack Africa in November 2020, the German trade show specialist fairtrade Messe is launching another digital format with the Virtual for all Middle East Africa from 31 May to 02 June 2021. The organisers' aim with this event is to contribute to deepening global relations with the Middle East and Africa in the agrofood & plastprintpack sector.

The Ghent Workgroup is involved in the creation of best practices and standards for many graphic arts workflows. Specifically for the packaging market segment, Ghent Workgroup has received feedback that the production of complex packaging pieces might still require additional communication in order for those pieces to be produced correctly.

INX International Ink Co. is now accepting entries for the second annual Colored by INX Can Design Contest through April 30. The event is open to brand owners, design agencies, marketers and others who utilized the INX Color Catalog to produce a single commercial can design between January 1 and December 31, 2020.

Hand up how many have ever chosen a product in a store based on its packaging? I confess that I have! As you fly past the shelves, your choice from the dozens of similar options is strangely made easier if one product stands out from the crowd with its attractive packaging.

President Aldo Peretti calls on the government to recognize the strategic role of packaging

The increase in commodities consumption and home deliveries will allow the machinery and technolo-gies manufacturers for packaging production to end the year with lower-than-expected losses, specifi-cally on foreign markets, strategic for the whole industry.