The Taropak exhibition included approximately 800 exhibitors from over 30 countries, with about 35% of all exhibitors coming from outside Poland

With only less than a week until Taropak 2010, the excitement is growing in the Poznan region of Poland for what should be a great show for the packaging industry

When Mieszko S.A., one of Poland’s leading confectionery manufacturers, wished to enhance the look of its new A’Madorro chocolates, which are packed in large format boxes, it turned to Marden Edwards, which supplied a S4BX225FF individual large format chocolate box overwrapper to do the job.

A demonstration of the Evo-Fold wrapper from Marden Edwards at the PPMA Show 2008 has led to an order from Scottish confectioners Thomas Tunnock to wrap its tea cake products

With a greater emphasis on environmental sustainability, bio-degradability and cost reduction there is a greater focus being placed on wrapping products with paper.

One of the complaints regarding overwrapping when compared to shrinkwrapping has been the need to use a precise width of film. Shrinkwrapping, using large amounts of heat energy to shrink film around a product, has always been able to cope with oversize film and shrink to the correct size.

The purpose of this article is to explain the main styles and formats of cigarette and tobacco packaging that exist within the tobacco industry