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Craft Spirits Surpassing Craft Beer Growth

After years of substantial growth, craft beer is beginning to slow down slightly, while craft spirits are passing into a phase similar in...

AIMCAL Welcomes Tim Janes as Membership Outreach Director

Tim Janes has joined the Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) staff as membership outreach director,...

Prices of Canned Fruits, Vegetables Going Up

Delmonte Foods Inc. CEO Greg Longstreet says that the U.S. is in an “inflationary environment” right now with tariffs driving up prices o...

Sightline Process Control Inc. Joins KPM Analytics Food Processing Portfolio

KPM Analytics has acquired Sightline Process Control Inc., which specializes in 3D color vision and automated inspection systems for the ...

Diamond Packaging Wins 7 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards

Diamond Packaging has received seven awards in the 26th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition, the industry's premier showcase for foi...

Global Packaging Adhesives Market to See CAGR of 5.4% to 2026

The global packaging adhesives market is projected to register a CAGR of over 5 percent in terms of value during the forecast period 2017...

Next Generation Films and Charter NEX Films Join Forces

The packaging film producers plan to combine, creating a new platform focused on leading the specialty films market.

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Prepared Foods

Ready-to-Prepare Meal Pouches Hit Shelves

Mountain House introduces Simple Sensations, a new line of ready meals that come in convenient pouches. …

Beverage Packaging

Autonomous Machine Vision for Packaging

Inspekto's new INSPEKTO S70 is an autonomous machine vision system capable of inspecting any product on any line, using any handling method. …

Flexible Packaging

Skittles Revamps Packaging for LGBTQ+ Pride

Pride events celebrating equality and inclusivity take place around the U.K. and other countries. And for the past two years, Skittles has "given up" its iconic multicolored candies and packaging, "because …

Paperboard/Corrugated/Cartons

Temperature-Monitoring Product for Cold Chain Use

SpotSee has expanded its temperature-monitoring product line to include Cold Chain Complete, a combination of two temperature indicators that alerts users to exposure of unacceptably high or low temperatures. …

Cans & bottles

Confiscated Bourbon Pays Tribute to Prohibition Era

Kentucky Owl, "The Wise Man's Bourbon," has released Confiscated, a handcrafted batch of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey from master blender Dixon Dedman. …

Rigid Containers

Fresh Fruits & Fragrances Outline New Wine & Spirits

Kristen Kazarian

Wine has found its niche in the aluminum can — and with it, refreshing flavors and packaging design. Winesellers Ltd., a family owned, global importer and marketer of fine wines, …

Beverage Packaging

Dairy Brand Letti Launches Transparent PET Packaging

Brazilian dairy brand Letti is the first to adopt transparent one-liter PET bottles for its fermented milk products. The custom containers replace the traditional white, opaque high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles that …

Tips for Certification Under Amazon’s Packaging Guidelines

Aaron Sass

In the end, not everything ends up where it should with an online shipment, and there is a lot of waste involved. It’s also a problem Amazon is aware of, and is seeking to rectify by pushing its vendors to use recyclable packaging materials certified under Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging program.

Blister Packaging

Hot Trend Time Machine

Kristen Kazarian

Milk (cow, sheep, goat and butter) and other liquid dairy products like coffee creamer and other creams, are still holding strong even though nut and other plant-based milks have made the dairy case competitive.

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Blogs

Make Product Presentation a Priority

Looks do count when it comes to presentation of a product. An item that catches the eye on a shelf has a stronger chance of being purchased by consumers. Here we go over the importance of packaging and presentation for a product.

How Personal Can You Get with Packaging?

By Hiren Panchal

Predicting the Future of Plant Maintenance

Closures/Lids

Dr. Scott Gottlieb's Departure from FDA

Walt Berghahn

At this point in 2019 it is impossible not to give some well-deserved attention to the departure of Dr. Scott Gottlieb from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Anyone associated with pharmaceuticals or packaging was surprised at the announcement.

Flexible Packaging

2019 Flexible Packaging Award Competition

Bemis Company Inc. is the winner of this year’s prestigious FPA Highest Achievement Award for their Molson Coors 12-Pack Cooler Bag. The bag also won two Gold Awards for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and Printing & Shelf Impact, and a Silver Award for Packaging Excellence. The Cooler Bag creates a fresh take on the ubiquitous beer carton.

Beer/Wine/Spirits Packaging

5 Common Mistakes Beer Brands Make in Pack Design

Troy Wade

With beer being such an outwardly simple phenomenon, surely packaging it is pretty straightforward. As it turns out, it’s trickier than you might think. Here are the five most common mistakes we’ve observed — and on occasion, rectified.

Rigid Containers

4 Marketing Elements You Can Sneak into Your Packaging

Jake Rheude

Get back to basics and reach the customer before they dive into the papers in a product's packaging and toss them aside. Here are four tactics backed by data that you can use on the packaging directly around your product as well as on those shipping boxes your warehouse sends out to e-commerce shoppers.

Packaging Strategies

2019 May

In this issue of Packaging Strategies, read about inverted pouches, checking the boxes for a bagging system, how four OEMs implemented PackML and much more!

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