Metpack 2026 not only looks at what is happening today but forecasts what will happen tomorrow. The Metpack Conference is where the meeting of industry minds comes together. It is set apart from the exhibition halls because these seminars and speeches demand focus and attention. They also demand a working knowledge of science, engineering and…

The Metpack Innovation Awards 2026 took centre stage on May 6, 2026 during the world’s leading trade fair for metal packaging in Essen, Germany. The awards have been a stalwart of the event since 1996. Presented every three years they recognise groundbreaking advancements in time efficiency, cost reduction, sustainability, and quality improvements within the sector.…

For an industry long defined by scale and efficiency, the aluminium beverage can is being recast in more strategic terms — as a test case for what a functioning circular economy might look like in practice. That is the argument advanced by Chris Smith, a senior executive at Orora Beverage, who has been outlining the…

In beverage packaging facilities, conveyor systems tend to be treated as fixed infrastructure. Once installed, they are expected to run, be maintained, and eventually replaced. What is changing is not the hardware itself, but how operators are thinking about upgrading it. For CODI Manufacturing, that shift is showing up in a growing number of retrofit…

Rising tensions in the Middle East are tightening aluminium supply and pushing up costs, bringing price pressures in the global metal packaging industry into sharper focus. The escalation of conflict involving Iran is prompting a familiar reassessment across the metal packaging industry: how exposed is the sector to geopolitical shocks in aluminium and energy? For…