It is a fact packaging has improved in leaps and bounds in the last 50 or more years. What used to be regarded as breakthroughs in packaging, both in function and design, are now taken for granted in a world where packaging communicates so much more and has to work so much harder

John Byron says those Australian packaging companies looking to source their boxes from Asia need to ensure they have processes in place to ensure they get the result they are looking for

Always on the lookout for something new in packaging, Byron was quite taken back when recently he came across a beer bottle with a difference

The world and especially its relationship with packaging can seem a funny old place sometimes, reflects John Byron

The ongoing global financial meltdown is affecting the packaging industry in many countries and in many ways, John Byron looks at some of the implications

In keeping up with advances in carton die-forme manufacturing, as well as the latest in CAD software, I recently visited Hygrade, Australia’s leader in this specialised service to the carton and box industries

John Byron has some timely advice for those seeking to sell packaging

The Australian International Beers Awards are not just about awarding excellence in the brewing of the ever popular amber fluid. More recently these prestigious, and truly international awards, introduced a packaging category of which this writer was invited to participate in judging

Shelf ready display boxes are by no means a new concept but this convenient use of retail ‘display shippers’ maybe about to take a new turn with an interesting design concept recently secured by Glama Pak.

By now many of us will have seen some of the new exciting design variations of the ‘fifth panel’ carton.