Must have machinery.(usage of packaging machinery)

Matthew Levinson

Buying new packaging machines is a big decision, but with industry rushing headlong into the retail-ready revolution the time to defer has passed. Matthew Levinson finds out what to ask when you buy.

The drive to shelf-ready packaging, and changes in the use of colour, are forcing manufacturers to overhaul their packaging lines.

Although the vast majority of companies being asked to load packaged products straight onto the shelf are big operators supplying into Coles and Woolworths sized supermarkets, plenty of smaller operators a