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ABB Offers Free Digital Services to Keep Customers Moving Forward

In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, ABB’s Robotics & Discrete Automation business will offer key software services free of charge...

More Consumers Move to Click and Pick-Up Curbside

As the world continues to grapple with the deadly coronavirus and social distancing guidelines extended through April 30th, a growing num...

Dow to Begin Producing Hand Sanitizer at 4 Additional Factories

Five Dow sites are expected to produce more than 200 metric tons, equivalent to more than 880,000 8-oz. bottles of hand sanitizer, which ...

Brands Redesign Logos to Signify Social Distancing

Broken Golden Arches, unconnected Audi rings, spaced-out Coca-Cola typography, brands with missing on-pack personalities and more ar...

How Covid-19 Is Affecting Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Businesses

Income elasticity analysis reveals that adidas, Nike, LVMH and Groupe Danone have higher Coronavirus (COVID-19) risk exposure among selec...

JLS Automation Turns 65

JLS Automation is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, and its long-standing commitment to revolutionizing industrial automation w...

Coty Inc. Producing Hydro-Alcoholic Gel to Help Combat COVID-19

Coty Inc. has started producing hydro-alcoholic gel, which is used as hand sanitizer, to help combat the COVID-19 virus. The products are...

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Sun-Maid Updates Logo, Graphics for Modern Packaging Design

Sun-Maid, the whole fruit snack brand, is unveiling a new look and feel through its packaging to reflect simplicity and transparency. Sun-Maid's iconography has been one of the most recognizable …

Household Packaging

First Post-Consumer Recycled Materials Combo Program for Blister Packaging

ecoCombo™ compliments Rohrer’s ezCombo™ program and offers a new way for retail brands to make sustainable packaging choices in their blister packaging. …

Beer/Wine/Spirits Packaging

Sol Attains Premium Design and Focuses on Positivity of the Sun

Sol cerveza unveils a new design for packaging in global markets. Inspired by Sol’s Mexican heritage, Vault49 used handcrafted artisanal elements to tell the brand’s rich and colorful history while …

Candy/Confectionery

New Secondary Packaging Machinery Is Faster and More Flexible

The Dresden-based company has launched its new BLM innovation: the first cartoner for the company, which can keep pace with the high speed of the primary packaging machines, as it …

Paperboard/Corrugated/Cartons

Non-Dairy Ice Cream Chooses Renewable Ice Cream Board Packaging

NadaMoo!, a plant-based ice cream brand has switched to Evergreen Packaging's Sentinel™ Fully Renewable Ice Cream Board. The coconut milk dairy-free frozen dessert will begin using the eco-friendly, paper-based packaging made …

Films & Coatings

InvisiShield Active Packaging Solution for Pathogen Mitigation Launches

The new InvisiShield technology, by Aptar Food + Beverage, is an anti-pathogenic packaging solution seamlessly integrated into sealed packages to protect fresh-cut produce from harmful pathogens like bacteria, fungi and viruses. …

Beverage Packaging

Packaging Outlook 2020: Collaboration, Innovation, Flexibility

Kristen Kazarian

Last year many companies collaborated on new materials, machinery compatibility and corporate initiatives, and joined recycling groups. It’s time to look forward, get inspired and realize that sometimes it is …

The Promise of Connected Packaging: From brand protection to consumer engagement

It is now well accepted that virtually all brands, from the utmost recognized to the newly eager, face an unprecedented onslaught of counterfeiting and gray market trading. In emerging countries, this menace is bold and audacious, with outright fakes appearing in the open marketplace. In developed countries, the problem is equally insidious due to online propagation of counterfeit products through e-commerce platforms.

Columns

A Pit in the Stomach

It seems that the U.S-China trade war is slowing. According to National Public Radio, the president agreed to relax some of the tariffs he imposed on Chinese imports. In exchange, Beijing has agreed to buy more American products and make other changes.

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Staying Competitive with Automation

By John Kuhnz

Faster speeds often equal higher rates of production, which can lead to greater profits. Of course, simply cranking up the speed of your conveyors won’t get you there — but automation will.

Made in America: Automating for Growth

6 Common Mistakes Made with Structural Packaging Projects

By David Bicknell

Columns

HCPC Celebrates 30 Years of Improving Pharma Packaging

Walt Berghahn

In 2020 the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council celebrates its 30th anniversary. In that time, HCPC has witnessed dramatic changes in the pharmaceutical market, and our mission has evolved to meet the changing landscape of the healthcare industry.

Beer/Wine/Spirits Packaging

Don't Make These 4 Mistakes When Starting a Subscription Service

Chris Crane

The craze for a "subscription for everything" may make you think just having a great subscription box idea is the winning recipe, but there's a lot more to it. Consumers aren't just interested in a box's products but aspects like its delivery cycle, quality assembly and optimal return policy. Here are four mistakes you should avoid when starting a subscription box service.

Pharma/Medical Packaging

What’s in Your Sustainability Tool Kit?

Jorge Izquierdo

Regardless of where companies currently stand on the sustainability spectrum, there is always room for growth — and certainly the demand to support it. As consumer awareness of sustainable brand practices grows, there are some considerations that companies must make to catch up or stay ahead of the curve.

Sustainable Packaging

Advances in Packaging Sustainability

Kristen Kazarian

In January, U.S. plastic bag manufacturers and recyclers signed a sustainability commitment for the industry and renamed its coalition the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance (ARPBA). The agreement by ARPBA members includes a target that 95% of plastic retail bags be reused or recycled by 2025.

Packaging Strategies

2020 March

In this issue of Packaging Strategies we have the annual Packaging Outlook, covering flexible and rigid plastics, glass, metal cans, paperboard and corrugated, as well as packaging machinery & automation and packaging design. Also covered is the trend of less is more in beverage branding, how dispensers can make or break a brand experience, one conveying company that’s setting the bar in vertical farming, a dairy manufacturer that moved to plant-based products and more. Enjoy!

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