Cannabis continues to grow with many countries legalizing its usage, creating a new packaging segment. In 2018, Canada is expected to fully legalize marijuana, and the U.S. appears to be heading down the same path as more states approve its medical and recreational use.
Neudorff GmbH KG, Germany, manufacturer and distributor of gardening products, has launched a bio vitality treatment for shrubs, flowers and trees in packs produced by RPC Kutenholz.
Tribe, a national leading hummus brand, has removed artificial preservatives and is relaunching the brand as clean label, emphasizing the company’s resolve in making authentic tasting hummus from real ingredients that consumers can feel good about eating.
Foods and beverages, personal care products and household cleaners packaged in clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles face a threat to their formulations and ingredients from ultraviolet (UV) light. In particular, UV light can cause color fading and shifting, create off-flavors and aromas, and reduce vitamin potency. Ultimately, lower product quality and shorter shelf life resulting from UV damage can impact profitability and brand reputation.
Cranswick plc, one of Britain’s leading suppliers of premium food, has vowed a significant drive to reduce plastic waste within the U.K. starting with itsown pledge that all packaging used by the food group will be 100% recyclable and sustainably sourced and in addition, to also reduce their plastic use by 50% by 2025.
Smart & Final Stores Inc.—the neighborhood warehouse grocery store—selected packaging design agency Voicebox Creative to refresh the look of its signature First Street private label brand, which makes up over 75 percent of Smart & Final’s private label sales.
Minnesota-based Premium Waters is rolling out distribution of a 700 mL package size of Water Joe, a caffeinated bottled water. The product is premium purified water infused with caffeine and has no artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors, sugar, sodium or calories.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation announced that the list of leading brands, retailers and packaging companies working toward using 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025 or earlier has grown to 11.
For a second consecutive term, TricorBraun's Vice President of Brand Marketing Suzanne Fenton was elected to the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) Board of Directors, among other packaging professionals.
evian announced that it will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled plastic by 2025, a move that will see the natural spring water brand adopt a ‘circular approach’ to its plastic usage, where plastic is kept within the economy and out of nature. Working in close relationship with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to define this roadmap, evian will move from a linear model to a circular one.