Happy Earth Day!
From all of us at Garthwest, Happy Earth Day to everyone. Together, let’s team up to protect our environment.
A Cardboard Alternative
Our marketing executive, Patrick, discusses the work we’ve been doing to come up with cardboard alternatives to protect our environment. Let’s go green and stay blue together.
The Innovation Lab, 2018
Hosted at the NEC in Birmingham on 28th Feb and 1st March, Packaging Innovation UK 2018 held an impressive exhibition demonstrating cutting-edge technologies and materials that will have large impacts on the packaging industry in the upcoming years. Garthwest both applied and won a position in the Innovation Lab segment allowing us the opportunities to demonstrate our pioneering technology – Vertx.
The Public Prefers Paper Packaging!
In light of the recent news stories, we’ve seen plenty of headlines discussing plastic packaging and its negative effect on our environment. Industry body, Two sides, and Toluna, an international research agency, conducted a snap poll which resulted in showing a significant amount of people preferred paper packaging over plastic packaging.
Plastic Markets Under Threat
In a world where plastic is found almost everywhere, it appears that action is finally being taken to ensure that it no longer wreaks havoc on our planet. The United Nations are in the planning stages of a zero-tolerance plan with regard to plastic pollution of the oceans.
Plastic to Cardboard – The Green Initiative
As you may be aware, the final episode of Blue Planet 2 recently aired. It was a pivotal moment for the series as it showed the effects of pollution on our ecosystems. Terrible scenes of plastics in our oceans showed the horrifying impact on our wildlife. Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any sign of imminent change.
Performance Paper Grades for a Sustainable Future
At Garthwest, we always strive to be at the forefront of advancements within the packaging industry. We recently demonstrated this through assisting a major FMCG client with designing and implementing performance packaging.
Keep Calm and Embrace Digital Printing – It’s Here to Stay!
In a business climate that is constantly changing, it isn’t always easy to make decisions about large investments in your organisation. Within the printing industry, considering the rapid rate of change in technology, businesses are continually under pressure to ensure their digital printing investments are future-proof.
Plastic, the Environment and Human Health – How to Get Ahead of the Plastic-Free Game!
The passion for making our planet greener is an outstanding development of our modern world. Simple matters such as not leaving our TVs on standby, switching off lights in our homes, turning off the water intermittently while we brush our teeth, and recycling are just a few common examples that we have all grown accustomed to do in order to sustain our environment. But what if we can do more?
5 Things Your Shelf-Ready Packaging Must Do!
Shelf and Retail ready packaging has been a major revolution in getting products from A to B in the last 20 years. While making sure they look great at point B! However brands are still making simple mistakes with this common type of packaging. This can have a massive effect on bottom line profits from lost sales and increased costs of the packaging.
