Jon Hughes
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London Packaging Week 2025 attracted 5,752 visitors to ExCeL London. Attendance rose 15 percent year-on-year, underlining the event’s growing influence across the packaging, design, and materials industries.
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Sizable Energy has raised $8 million to advance ocean-based pumped hydro. The system uses brine and gravity to store grid-scale energy offshore.
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Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have signed an MoU to merge space operations. The agreement would create a unified European space systems and services company, operational by 2027 subject to regulatory approval.
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Chicopee and Sontara are uniting under parent company Magnera. The move consolidates nearly 275 years of expertise into a single, globally aligned strategy, redefining each brand’s market focus and accelerating product innovation, sustainability, and customer support ahead of their joint debut at Interclean 2026.
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Enedis renews deal with ABB to eliminate MV switchgear SF6. The agreement extends a long-running collaboration focused on decarbonising France’s medium-voltage infrastructure and improving grid resilience under growing electrification demand.
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Derby-based Monarch Security has launched an SIA-accredited training centre. The company, founded in 2020, will deliver Highfield-approved qualifications backed by real operational experience — creating new career pathways and raising professional standards across the UK security industry.
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BCMPA’s new competition draws start-up innovation into co-packing. The Association’s Pitch the Co-Packers initiative has sparked strong interest from entrepreneurs across food, beauty, and household sectors. Finalists will pitch to industry judges at February’s NEC show, with winners gaining funding and expert consultancy to scale their products to market.
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Ishida’s Sentinel 5.0 has won the 2025 PPMA Total Show’s Innovative Processing System Award. The AI-powered platform offers end-to-end visibility of food production lines, combining machine learning with advanced performance analytics.
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AkzoNobel has launched the industry’s first not-for-profit partnership. The IONOMY ecosystem will help coil coaters navigate the complex transition to renewable energy curing, uniting technology leaders to make low-energy curing commercially viable and operationally achievable.
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TNA Solutions will demonstrate integrated production lines at Gulfood Manufacturing 2025. The company aims to show how a fully synchronised approach to seasoning, distribution, and packaging can reduce costs, downtime, and environmental footprint while accelerating product development.
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