Anyone in industries like Food and Beverage, Health or Home Products will know that the threat of fake products is a genuine problem for undermining brands. ID-Shield, made by Caps & Closures, is an innovative holographic labelling and decoration system that prevents copying of your product labelling.

Ever left the milk out of the fridge in warm weather and it’s gone off? Annoying isn’t it. Milk is like any product from a cold chain supply industry – always at risk from unmonitored temperature changes. Well, Caps & Closures has come up with a clever solution called ThermoShield to solve the problem.

With the recent easing of COVID-19 restrictions, we at Caps & Closures have also updated how we operate. Our primary concern is still and always is protecting the health, safety, and well-being of our employees, customers, and suppliers. We will continue to monitor the situation and rely on the Department of Health communications. We feel a great responsibility to assist in limiting the spread of COVID-19 while ensuring we provide business continuity to our customers.

Today local manufacturers face unprecedented challenges through the unpredictability of the new “Covid-normal”, causing chaos with our supply chains. At Caps and Closures, we see this as an exciting opportunity to buy local and boost the local manufacturing industry.

Since 2013, when Coca-Cola replaced its logo with people’s names and invited the entire UK to ‘Share a Coke’ there’s been a huge buzz around ‘personalisation’. With 150 million personalised bottles sold in the UK alone, it’s a small wonder. Consumers also quickly warmed to ‘Get well soon’ labels on Heinz Soups and ‘Snickers’ replacing its logo with single word emotions like ‘Bored’. It’s all about creating that deeper connection. Going way beyond packaging, from that simple love-heart in your daily coffee fix to making your face the centre of the Bitmoji ‘avatar’ world, personalisation is now all-pervasive. In fact, it’s gone hyper.

The past year has been challenging, but Caps & Closures continues to innovate, creating new products and delivering outstanding service to our customers. We are very excited that the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has selected our “Grab & Go” product as a finalist in the Packaging Innovation and Design Awards (PIDA) for 2021.