The PPWR has been in force in all EU Member States since 12 August 2026. For brands of food supplements, this raises specific questions: about materials, about recyclability and about who the actual manufacturer of the packaging is. Mareno Lubkemann from Microz explains how brand owners, manufacturers and packaging suppliers can work this out together.
An increase in single-person households, tighter budgets and the growing popularity of own-brand products are driving up demand for smaller pack sizes. Henk van Geest of Multipackers explains why even large manufacturers are outsourcing their packaging work, and how his company is meeting that growth with automated packing lines and cobots.
The greatest gains in production are rarely to be found in a single machine, but in the connections between them. This is why companies are increasingly looking at the process as a whole rather than at individual pieces of equipment.
Off-the-shelf machines sometimes fall short when it comes to dosing and filling. Spimabo Machinebouw has been building bespoke solutions for the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries since 1994.
