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Packaging
Formats, films, labels and end-of-line: packaging as a decision about shelf life, sustainability and what retailers will accept.
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Cheddar rises 9% in a month and still trails the milk price
Mild Cheddar rose 9% in September, taking a litre made into Cheddar and whey to 39.08 pence and putting cheese back above butter and powder at the factory gate, but the October milk price rises were announced weeks before that figure was published, and AHDB says Cheddar prices remain too low to cover them.
29 September 2026
The invoice arrives this autumn. Nobody can tell you what it says.
The most expensive packaging decision available to a mid-sized processor this year is not a material decision at all: packaging with missing recyclability data is rated red, so 100 tonnes rated red by default rather than by design costs £13,000 more than the same tonnage rated green — larger than the gap between a realistic pack mix and a perfect one.
22 September 2026
The three numbers in your packaging budget are last year's
Year-two EPR resets the rate and starts charging on recyclability, so the number worth working out this month is not tonnage times rate but the red, amber and green split — and how much of the red is red only because an assessment was never submitted.
21 September 2026
Optimising dairy packaging for high-volume periods
Centralising packing-line control through one master terminal and adding vision inspection cuts costly manual data errors when high demand strains dairy production lines.
2 September 2025
WZ Packaging: leading the way in sustainable dairy packaging with the Enviro Ultra-Laminates range
WZ Packaging's Enviro Ultra-Laminates range shows dairy packaging can reduce material and improve recyclability without sacrificing barrier protection.
1 July 2025
Solving the wonky cheese label problem
Inspiron Systems' Cheese Centralizer aims to position irregular cheese packs accurately before labelling, cutting the relabelling that can affect up to 30% of packs.
6 February 2025
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