A new victor was awarded for their outstanding achievements in the realm of Health, Safety and Quality as the team from CONSUPAQ claimed their first titles in the main awards categories at our fourth annual Quality Awards, hosted for the first time this year as a virtual event on the Zoom platform.
Read MorePresented in the timeless round-shoulder design and offering a comfortable grip, Berry Astrapak’s Boston Bottle provides a sleek solution for packaging personal care products such as shampoos, conditioners, body lotions, creams and liquid soaps, as well as home care products like dish-washing liquid and furniture polish.
Read MoreMental, physical and emotional adjustment have become more of a necessity in our lives during 2020. This unpredictable time has built resilience and reminded us to be grateful for every day we have to be alive and productive.
Read MoreThe expansion and upgrade of the Spec Tool & Die facility in 2018 has bolstered the company’s innovation and design capabilities from the Durban-based premises and has provided Berry Astrapak with its own in-house design and tooling capabilities.
Read MoreBerry Astrapak offers a versatile and robust tub suited for convenience foods. This is a container that recalls summer to mind as it is currently being used to package trifle puddings and cut fruit. The tub comes in both one kilogram and 500-gram sizes and is deep enough to hold bulky foods.
Read MoreOver the last years, Astrapak has adopted certain new business characteristics and one of these is our newly acquired agility – the ability to respond to customer needs, identify opportunities some customers didn’t even realise exist and embrace them to make for better end results.
Read MoreThe origination of sushi was in itself a packaging solution. In ancient China, the early beginnings of sushi involved wrapping fish in fermented rice as a preservation method to increase the longevity of seafood. People would peel off and discard the rice casing as a kind of packaging, eating only the fish that remained.
Read MoreEmbarking on something new sounds exciting to most of us. A new job, a new position at work, purchasing a new investment like a house, getting married… It requires weeks, maybe months, of planning and decision-making.
Read MoreWorking on a car or truck is not always the easiest task and there are certain hard-to-reach areas that can make simple repairs an arduous job. One such area is topping up the gearbox oil, which is filled from underneath.
Read MoreWith the ever-growing global concern around plastic pollution, the use of post-consumer resin (PCR) in the manufacture of packaging has become sought-after in the industry as companies are responding to the pressures of sustainability trends. Over the last few years, Berry Astrapak has also joined these efforts to reduce plastic waste by introducing PCR in the production of selected products.
Read MoreThere is an expression that says we’re “so deep in the trenches and still shooting at the enemy that we don’t even realise that the war is over and in fact that enemy went home a few weeks back”. This refers to being so engrossed with what we are dealing with in the moment that we haven’t had a chance to look up and to see the bigger picture.
Read MoreWith Berry Astrapak receiving approval from local government to be listed as an essential service provider during South Africa’s 21-day national lockdown, the company has been hard at work to produce crucial packaging orders to meet stringent timelines in a fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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