Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA)
Tinned goodness
UK supermarket Waitrose has advised its customers to plan at least one meal per week with tinned food, to cut down on food waste. But tinned food offers much more than just a Plan B meal reserve.
Creamy cans
Japanese company Gaku is offering consumers a unique vending machine dessert experience, with creamy products presented in cans.
Envases paint can wins MPMA award
Envases Liverpool has won the MPMA’s Best in Metal Award 2021 for a specially designed container for Lick Home paint cans.
Student rocks in metal
A design student from Loughborough University in England has won a competition after designing a striking metal gift pack for gin which captures the colour, fun and nostalgia of traditional British seaside rock.
Treasured tins
A fun story that came to my attention recently was from the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) who had launched a nationwide hunt to discover the UK’s most treasured tins.
Challenges ahead
This week, I thought I would bring to your attention the efforts of Robert Fell, director and chief executive at the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA). He will be taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge next month in aid of the World Land Trust (WLT).
Crown wins MPMA Best in Metal Award for Fishers Gin pack
Crown Aerosols and Promotional Packaging Europe has won this year’s MPMA Best in Metal Award for its speciality pack for Fishers Gin.
World Land Trust and MPMA launch refillable metal water bottle
Each metal bottle will be sold through the World Land Trust website shop, with proceeds supporting the conservation charity.
Have you been recycle-shamed?
There was an interesting survey to emerge from the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) recently, where nearly half of UK parents were said to be shamed by their children for poor recycling practices. Are you one of them?
New UK study shows nearly half of parents shamed by their children for poor recycling practises
A poll of 2,000 parents of school-aged children, conducted by the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA), found that 41% believe it is really their children who drive recycling and sustainability attitudes at home.
Demand for canned food is here to stay
The can making and filling sectors have become beneficiaries – at least in the short term – of consumers turning their kitchen cupboards into pandemic pantries, stockpiling canned food and other long-lasting products because they fear of food shortages because of Covid-19.
MPMA appoints new technical & regulatory affairs manager
Stuart Falconer joins the MPMA team as Brexit and packaging related regulations gather pace.
Robert Fell appointed as new CEO and director of MPMA
Former MPMA council member and acting chairman, Robert Fell, has re-joined the Association as director and CEO.
MPMA refutes claims it threatened Pooch & Mutt over advertising
The Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) has said that claims it threatened pet food brand Pooch & Mutt to remove an advert telling consumers to ‘ditch the can and save the planet’ are not true.