Sustainable packaging firm joins major manufacturing centre

A sustainable packaging provider is joining Coventry’s Manufacturing Technology Centre, to focus on advanced automation and robotics.

DS Smith, which operates across 34 countries, also develops paper products and recycling services. The firm will work with MTC to test and prove the feasibility of innovations in different stages of development.

The two companies have already partnered on two major innovation programmes, with DS Smith benefiting from the MTC’s expertise in modelling and simulation.

Glyn Tomlinson, group innovation operations and technology manager at DS Smith said: “We have an ambitious innovation and research and development agenda at DS Smith that seeks to create more value for our customers with radically different packaging products and services. Partnering with the MTC and its members on enabling manufacturing technologies will be vital. I’m excited to get more involved in collaborative research opportunities”.

Colin Bancroft, senior business development manager at the MTC said: “Building on the relationship that has been established with DS Smith, the MTC is keen to support them in the development of the next generation of sustainable packaging through the use of automation and digital technologies”.