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For businesses interested in transforming how they handle waste, QCR Recycling Equipment offer rental and purchase options on a wide range of equipment and can help enable operators to reduce their waste and carbon emissions as well as minimising the time staff spend handling waste.

Visitors to HRC will have the chance to meet with suppliers like Evoca UK Limited, home to Gaggia Milano, Necta and Saeco and offering a wide range of professional coffee machines. Also on hand will be Crazy Baker, a true artisan bakery supplying wholesale bakery products to an extensive number of cafés, hotels and restaurants around London.

Packaging

At IFE Manufacturing, visitors can meet with businesses such as BioPak (Stand 159), a supplier of compostable food to go packaging. Their product range is predominantly made from renewable materials and is certified compostable. BioPak’s packaging, in conjunction with a waste collection service solution, enables businesses to divert their food and packaging waste from landfill and convert it into nutrient-rich compost. In 2022, BioPak outlined in its sustainability report that it had helped customers to avoid 17,838 tonnes of plastic going to landfill across the world, the majority of their customers being within the food and drink industry.

Magnum Packaging (Stand 518), will show a wide range of carrier and packaging options and Brandpax (Stand 117), its personalised branded paper packaging to the food industry.

As a top Gold Partner with Epson ColorWorks colour label printers, KTEC (Stand 369) say that they will be showing the complete range of Epson desktop machines that provide in house colour label printing. Businesses can print their label images onto KTEC’s plain label rolls they manufacture in over 5000 sizes, adding variable information like pictures, ingredients, instructions, barcodes, expiry date and batch number for example, then print the exact quantity needed for each product or package with no wastage. Alternatively, businesses can print their label images onto an even lower cost plain uncut label rolls and use their Mini-Digi® label finishers off-line or in-line to cut the labels to any size or shape making even further savings.

To find out more about everything happening on 20-22 March at ExCeL London, and to register for your complimentary trade ticket (providing access to all three events), visit hrc.co.uk, ife.co.uk or ifemanufacturing.co.uk.