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Sidel Group and PET Engineering Start Packaging Design Agency

Gentlebrand, a new, independent design agency, was born from the merge of creativity and expertise. The agency specializes in Brand Strat...

Best Practices for Conducting Virtual Factory Acceptance Tests

The OpX Leadership Network has released best practices and leadership guidelines for executing virtual factory acceptance tests (vFATs), ...

Toppan Printing Develops Payment Cards with Antibacterial Agent

Cards contain an agent that inhibits bacterial growth by more than 99% to support hygienic payment transactions and access control under ...

Advertisers Put Stop to Social Media Advertising in July and Forward

Major brands, including Bailey’s, Smirnoff vodka, Coca-Cola, Levis and Unilever join a growing movement of big brand advertisers against ...

No Evidence of Contracting COVID-19 from Food Packaging Say FDA and USDA

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and FDA Commissioner, Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., issued a statement regarding food export restri...

Heat and Control Celebrates 70 Years

Founded in 1950, Heat and Control Inc., a world-leading equipment manufacturer and food processing industry supplier, celebrates its 70th...

Cold Pressure Council Releases New Set of Certified Guidelines

A new set of High Pressure Certified® Guidelines has been released by The Cold Pressure Council. The topic of the newest guideline is wet...

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Snack Food Packaging

Planters Mascot Mr. Peanut Redesigned as Baby Nut

Baby Nut, the cute newborn version of Planters’ classic mascot Mr. Peanut who made his debut at the Super Bowl this year, will appear on Planters packaging. …

Closures/Lids

New Tap Designed for Bag-In-Box Cleaning Products

Smurfit Kappa Bag-in-Box has unveiled a new Vitop® Blue tap that is specially designed for cleaning products including detergents, soaps and sanitizers. …

Form-Fill-Seal/Filling & Closing

Improve Seal Quality with Hot Melt Dot Sealing Applicator

Meler’s micro-precision adhesive applicator uses advanced technology to accurately apply hot melt dots at high speed with top repeatability and long term reliability. …

Paperboard/Corrugated/Cartons

Kellogg's Introduces Limited Edition MASHUPS Cereal

For the first time ever, dynamic duo Tony the Tiger® and Toucan Sam® is teaming up to give breakfast lovers the best of both cereal worlds with new Kellogg 's® MASHUPS Cereal. …

Automation/Controls

Safety Laser Scanner Monitors Up to Three Zones Simultaneously

The new safety laser scanner, PSENscan, from Pilz safely monitors up to three separate zones simultaneously, significantly increasing plant productivity. …

New Products & Materials

Recyclable PE Bag for Food Delivery and Specialty Retail Products

ProAmpac has debuted CurbSafe, a recyclable, polyethylene bag for food service and retail. …

Beer/Wine/Spirits Packaging

Jägermeister Launches 'Save the Night' Limited Edition Bottle

For the first time in the brand’s history, Jägermeister is changing the front label of the iconic liqueur across the world. …

The Meat & Poultry Crisis

Kristen Kazarian

In order to keep lost sales at a minimum, meat and poultry processors recently have turned to online sales as well as selling directly to consumers. Will this work for the long haul, depending on how long the supply chain will be chinked?

Pharma/Medical Packaging

Planning and Executing Label Qualification

Susan Ritter

Brand owners need to ensure their labeling process complies with all applicable regulations and meets a high bar for quality to ensure reliable labeling throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Classifieds

VENTPERF

Needling Tools & Systems

Improve ventilation or moisture release
For paper, film, laminates, wallpaper
Hole sizes adjustable on the fly
Perforation density up to 600 holes/sq. in
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Blogs

Cannabis Industry Ignites Job Market for Design and Packaging

By Tom Newmaster

Over 200,000 full-time jobs and growing — that’s the impact cannabis is having on our economy. This data didn’t come from the US government, but from a study reported in Leafly, the largest cannabis website in the world.

Can Augmented Reality Improve Manufacturing?

By Mark Howard

Staying Competitive with Automation

By John Kuhnz

White Papers

Best Practices to Combat Product Counterfeiting and Diversion

The brand protection company presents peer-based research compiled from 100 interviews with brand protection professionals best practices to combat product counterfeiting. Based on 100 interviews with brand protection execs In highly regulated industries with complex operating environments: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Pharmaceuticals, and Wine & Spirits.

Sustainable Packaging

Dispelling 3 Common Myths about Sustainable Packaging

The demand for sustainable products and packaging is only growing. With continuous innovations to packaging technologies, brands have many options for improving their packaging and reaching sustainably minded consumers.

Columns

Editor’s Note: Hype and Hysteria

Kristen Kazarian

Our daily lives have been upended since this pandemic hit. Many people across diverse industries were furloughed or lost their jobs entirely. The global economy was hit and we feel it in the United States. In fact, the Business Insider reports that the U.S. economy may slump 30% in this second quarter.

Dairy Food Packaging

Corrugated Box Producers Help Sustain Supply Chain Agility

Rachel Kenyon

People around the world are learning the hard way how completely dependent we all are upon reliable supply chains to keep our economy — and our lifestyles — running. In the shadow of quarantines and social distancing guidelines, consumers have had to rely more than ever on ecommerce to deliver necessities.

Packaging Strategies

2020 June

This issue of Packaging Strategies highlights how companies can move ahead during these unprecedented times; package printing innovations, and a case study on one printer creating lunchboxes for frontliners; how best to choose FFS equipment; advanced analytics with Big Data; ready-to-heat vegan dishes answering consumers call and more.

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