Parkside celebrates outstanding safety and quality achievements at Asian site
Flexible packaging specialist Parkside is celebrating its latest safety and quality milestone, following a successful BRC audit at its Asian manufacturing site, scoring AA*. Further strengthening its commitment to excellence, the site has also achieved ISO 9001 certification with zero observations or non-conformities – a rare accomplishment that highlights the strength and consistency of Parkside’s […]
Parkside hits sustainable sweet spot with compostable pack for Datekin Sukkari date launch
Sustainable flexible packaging leader Parkside has partnered with premium snack producer Lama to develop a certified home compostable flexible pack for Datekin Sukkari dates. The compostable packaging, which is guaranteed to break down in 26 weeks in domestic compost heaps and within 12 weeks in an industrial composting facility, creates a sustainable wrapper for Datekin’s […]
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
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’s paper packaging strikes Gold at The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards 2024
Parkside is celebrating after its innovative paper flow wrap solution developed for luxury chocolate brand Cox & Co’s ‘Farm to Bar Cacao’ earned Gold award recognition in the ‘Paper Pack of the Year’ category at The Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2024. The award recognises the collaboration between Parkside and Cox & Co to […]
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
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
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.
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 […]