With 49 confirmed exhibitors and counting, this year’s Summit will focus on the opportunities and challenges associated with sustainability for packaging.

The move will help NMT respond to the medical devices market’s growing demand for high precision and miniaturised components.

The company is calling for change in the European Union and UK markets.

Enhanced financial incentives to drive demand for recycled plastic polymers and improvements in material tracking are among measures needed to support vital infrastructure investment, industry research argues.

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Exchange For Change, the industry-led organisation delivering the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, has today confirmed a package of targeted support for retailers, as work progresses towards the scheme’s October 2027 launch.

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Smurfit Westrock has been shortlisted at the Packaging News Sustainability & Impact Awards 2026, recognised in the Chilled & Frozen Food Packaging category for their collaboration with meal kit company Mindful Chef.

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The retail group already owns just over a quarter of the German fashion brand but wants to buy the rest of it.

Riot police came under sustained attack from a group throwing bricks, bottles and pieces of wood at a major roundabout to the north-west of Belfast.

US Central Comand said its latest airstrikes were responding to "unwarranted and continued aggression" from Iran.