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Pouch Recycling Needs to Be Easier to Ensure Survival

After disposable coffee cups and plastic bottles, pouches could be the next target in the waste reduction landscape, due to the difficult...

New Partnership for S-One Labels and VerifyMe Inc.

A new partnership has formed between S-One Labels & Packaging and VerifyMe Inc., a technology solutions company that markets a broad ...

Food Manufacturing 2030 Conference Held in May

In partnership with ABB and the University of Lincoln, OAL Group presents the second Food Manufacturing 2030 Conference. The ev...

Bain Capital Private Equity Acquires World Wide Packaging

Bain Capital Private Equity has acquired World Wide Packaging LLC, a leading provider of cosmetic packaging components, plastic tube...

Flexible Packaging Association Offering New Market Tracker Tool

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is now offering a Flexible Packaging Market Tracker tool on the FPA website. The tool featu...

P&G Jumps on Sustainable Bandwagon with 20 Brands

Procter & Gamble aims to make packaging for 20 leadership brands, including Always, Ariel, Dawn, Fairy, Febreze, Head & Shou...

Kyle Kopp Named Manufacturing Vice President at Sussex IM

Sussex IM has named Kyle Kopp Vice President of manufacturing. In this role, he will lead all strategic planning for manufacturing, inclu...

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Pharma/Medical Packaging

Pregis Launches Colorful Inspyre Protective Packaging

The new Inspyre protective packaging brand includes a spectrum of color possibilities to help enhance the customer experience with a different unboxing experience, and provide visual support for cause marketing and/or charitable …

Beverage Packaging

Lixir Tonic Mixes Up the Beverage Market

Lixir Tonic was founded by two childhood friends who believed tonic water could be more than just a pairing with gin. Having worked in bars, the duo noticed that the mixer …

Personal Care Packaging

Scanner Inspects Bottles, Tubes & Cans

GlobalVision has released the new C8 cylinder scanner for companies requiring high quality scans of bottles, tubes or cans to ensure error-free packaging. …

Cans & bottles

Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum Pays Tribute to Namesake in Bottle Redesign

Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, which honors Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins, launched a new bottle design with iconography and imagery that further highlights the life and times of Collins. The new …

Food Service Packaging

Refrigerated Dough Available in Flexible Packaging

The European dough brand Wewalka has come out with a single-crust package, to prevent possible food waste of a second crust. …

Supplier Products

Single-Use Aseptic Sampling System for Liquid Dairy

CSP Technologies, Inc. has partnered with aseptic sampling specialist QualiTru Sampling Systems to develop TruDraw, a single-use aseptic sampling system for sampling of liquid dairy products. The product virtually eliminates the risk …

Beverage Packaging

Rapak Offers Bag-in-Box Fully Automatic Filling Machine

Rapak North America, part of DS Smith Plastics, has launched Autokap 1700 series, a small footprint liquid filling machine that holds the bag fixed during the filling process. The machine is …

Why Safety Adds More Business Value than You Think

Ashish Patwardhan

Rapid advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology is bringing connected devices, systems and people together to deliver actionable results and improve safety, productivity, sustainability, efficiency and reliability. Coupled with the emergence of IIoT is a continuous evolution of standards to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) build safer machines and likewise, help machine users and manufacturers improve the ease of maintenance while minimizing operational downtime. Today, machine users and manufacturers not only want to ensure new and existing machines are safe, but that they are connected for diagnostics, flexible in design, reliable and ready for now as well as the future.

Pharma/Medical Packaging

The Year of Change: 6 Pharmaceutical Packaging Trends

Marsha Frydrychowski

Up and down the supply chain, the pharmaceutical industry will work hard to achieve traceability per DSCSA standards. Greater consumer demand and a heightened focus of customization at the patient level will force smaller batches and shorter lead times for packagers. Through all of the changes, quality management remains top-of-mind for pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers.

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Blogs

Tips for Increasing Speed & Flexibility of Robotic Case Packers

By Stephen Gandy

The rule of thumb when deciding between robotic or conventional case packers is not as true today as in the past, because robots now cost less and are easier to use, creating more options for packagers. Here are three suggestions for gaining advantages from the new economic realities of robots in case packing.

Automated Packaging vs Manual: Reducing Labor Costs

By David Roberge

Product Packaging for the Food Industry

By David Roberge

Prepared Foods

Bake Sustainability into the Scale-Up Strategy

The sustainability movement grew up and out of smaller companies that prioritized environmental responsibility in catering to niche consumer preferences. Now, sustainability features prominently in the brand promises and cost saving strategies made by food manufacturers of all sizes. So, how does a budding food manufacturer looking to scale up from a retail or small production operation begin to tackle sustainability? Three packaging professionals provide their advice for an environmentally responsible scale-up strategy.

PMMI Corner

Cans Lead as Packaging Innovations Drive Beverage Market Growth

Maria Ferrante

Packaging innovations are helping to drive growth in the beverage market, according to the “Beverage Packaging and Innovation Trends” report published by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Snack Food Packaging

Plotting a Course Through Food Contact Packaging Regulations

Manufacturers and users of industrial packaging may not always be aware of a product’s final destination or end purpose, meaning it could become subject to regulations not considered in the original packaging selection or manufacturing process. The only time users become aware of the issue could be when requests for regulatory compliance statements are made. Packaging users and manufacturers should proceed with caution in how these requests are handled, as they can often be fraught with risk.

Food Service Packaging

Meeting Retail & Consumer Demand for Food Packaging Conformity

Daniela Verhaeg

Correct packaging, according to specification, is a given in the food sector. It’s about ensuring safety and compliance, and upholding brand reputation. The fundamental requirement is that food is free from unwanted contaminants and high quality; the outer packaging must be accurate and the label correctly positioned, and the product needs to be within the correct weight tolerances. Read how advanced detection technologies can meet retailer and consumer demand for packaging conformity.

Packaging Strategies

2018 April

In this issue of Packaging Strategies, we take a look at beverage packaging innovations, the booming aluminum packaging market, and much more!

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