Parkside lights up local community with Trinity Mission donation

Parkside has begun the year on a positive note after it revealed its staff had raised £500 to support Trinity Mission, a local charity that supports vulnerable individuals in the Castleford, West Yorkshire area. The team took part in a number of fundraising activities over the Christmas period, including dress down Fridays, a Christmas quiz, […]

Parkside takes fresh approach to fruit packaging with lidding film innovation

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Parkside has revealed it is doubling down on its support for fresh produce, meat, and dairy businesses with a wave of exciting lidding film innovations. The award-winning flexible packaging expert has expanded its portfolio of lidding film solutions, giving food brands, packers, and processors more options than ever to tailor their packaging to suit specific […]

Parkside ends year on a high with Sustainable Packaging News Award win

Parkside is celebrating a winning end to 2024 after its Popflex™ innovation took home the Recyclable Packaging Innovation award at the Sustainable Packaging News Awards. The prestigious end-of-year award was given to Popflex as it offers a novel monopolymer solution to the lidding film recycling challenge. A PET film, Popflex film can be weld-sealed to […]

Packaging’s sustainable future has to include plastic

Packaging’s sustainable future has to include plastic Packaging sustainability is a broad and very complex topic. As such, it is understandable that it is often boiled down into much simpler discussions around single-use plastics and recycling. In fact, a Deloitte survey[1] found that, when consumers were asked what sustainable actions they have taken in the […]

Asian nutraceutical consumers demand flexibility – in their lifestyles and their packaging

Nutraceuticals in Asia

Asian nutraceutical consumers demand flexibility – in their lifestyles and their packaging  Consumers in Asia have a long history of using supplements, functional foods, and botanicals that they believe support their health and wellbeing. While the efficacy of some of these traditional methods is up for debate, this legacy makes it unsurprising that many Asian […]

Asia’s Packaging Revolution: Top Trends Shaping the Industry

Packaging Trends in Asia

Asia’s Packaging Revolution: Top Trends Shaping the Industry  Today’s Asian packaging market is a hotbed of change. From shifting consumer behaviours to tightening legislation, the landscape looks very different than it did just five years ago.  Our Asian site, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, gives us a first-hand experience of working at the heart of […]

5 uses for monopolymer packaging films you might not have considered.

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5 uses for monopolymer packaging films you might not have considered.    Soft plastic recycling is undergoing a slow, tumultuous rollout. Domestic flexible plastic recycling is set to be introduced before 2028, and the gradual introduction of front-of-store recycling collection points in supermarkets combined with the large-scale acceptance of PP alongside PET as a recyclable […]

Parkside points the way towards a flexible future with circularity-focused open day.

A group of people who attended the Parkside Open Day

Parkside points the way towards a flexible future with circularity-focused open day  Parkside marked the beginning of Recycle Week by hosting an insight-packed open day focused on inspiring the future of circular flexible packaging. The event, titled ‘Welcome to a Flexible Future’, saw Parkside open the doors of its Normanton HQ to thought leaders from […]