The March 2016 issue of Packaging Strategies features our cover story on transparent packaging, and other trends in food packaging. Other features include robotics and automation, shrink sleeve labeling, and much more.
Today, packaging must protect, inform and inspire today’s consumer.
March 11, 2016
Food packaging offers consumers many benefits. From necessary protection against spoiling, to aesthetics and nutritional information, all the way to meal ideas, thought-provoking mantras and promises of clean living.
Robotics and automation have both long served the packaging industry, speeding up the packaging process, increasing sustainability and efficiency, all with safety in mind.
As health-conscious consumers pay more attention to the substances that enter their bodies and the environment, they also expect that organic food packaging will be all-around ecologically friendly to ensure they aren’t consuming any “accidental” ingredients.
Rigid containers are constantly tasked with creating more innovative and sustainable products time and time again, while at the same time, making consumers want to pick them up over their competition.
Historically, companies looking for a coder to print barcodes, expiry and lot date in a packaging environment really only had one major print technology to consider – Continuous InkJet (CIJ).
The latest Global Packaging Trends Report from PMMI identified increasing awareness of health and wellness as one of the key trends driving development and innovation in packaging.