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World’s Largest Hub for Collaborative Robots Opens in Denmark

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR) have acquired a 50,000 m2 building site in Odense, where $36 million will be inv...

Reusable Cup Program Begins Pilots in California

The NextGen Cup Consortium, an effort driven by McDonald's and Starbucks, is debuting reusable cup pilot programs at independent coff...

Henkel Expands Adhesive Portfolio with Sonderhoff Brand

The two-and-a-half-year integration phase of the Sonderhoff Group into Henkel AG & Co. KGaA has been completed. As of January 1,...

Three P&G Brands to Implement HolyGrail Intelligent Packaging

P&G’s Lenor, Unstoppables and Fairy brands will become the first commercial implementations of HolyGrail intelligent packaging ...

Motion Industries Appoints Chris Pacer to VP of Central Group

Motion Industries Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary ...

Haney and HP Develop Sustainable Fashion Packaging

Haney, a global leader in package prototyping, has produced first-of-its-kind sustainable fashion packaging for designer Heron Preston&nb...

PepsiCo to Move to 100% Renewable Electricity in U.S. Plants

PepsiCo, Inc. recently announced plans to achieve 100% renewable electricity for its U.S. direct operations this year. The U.S. is the fo...

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Food Service Packaging

Fabri-Kal Launches New Line of Dairy Containers

Fabri-Kal has launched a new line of Dairy Containers. Made from white polypropylene, the recyclable containers are available in two popular designs. …

Snack Food Packaging

New Orleans Chip Brand Design Reflects City

Born in the spirit of New Orleans and voodoo healer Marie Laveau, Zapp’s® Evil Eye™ potato chips peer into your soul with the reverie of a mysterious, intense stare. …

Case Forming/ Packing/ Sealing

Bottle Packer Offers Quick Changeover for Various Pack Sizes and Patterns

A-B-C Packaging Machine’s Model 101 case packer can reduce downtime up to 30% and is complete in three simple steps. …

Dairy Food Packaging

Ben & Jerry's Adds to Non-Dairy Desserts with Sunflower Butter-Based Ice Cream

The next thing for Ben & Jerry's is offering even more non-dairy flavors and a new base mix with sunflower butter. …

Beer/Wine/Spirits Packaging

PBR Beer Has a New Family Member

Pabst Brewing Company, best known for its Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) beer, is launching a new IPA. The Seabird beer is exclusive to the Midwestern U.S. region. …

New Products & Materials

Zanders Launches 100% Natural Barrier Paper for Food Packaging

Zanders has enhanced Zanbarrier NGR ("Natural Grease Resistant") with 100% natural barrier against oil and grease without the use of any chemicals and with an even higher density. …

Case Forming/ Packing/ Sealing

Challenger Brands: Bridging Ecommerce and Retail

Leon Nicholas

Challenger brands, which set themselves apart with an intent to bring change to an industry, are driving massive change across the fast-moving consumer goods industry. At the same time, in …

Converters Expo 2020 to Begin With an Exclusive Facility Tour of Paper Converting Machine Company

The Converters Expo 2020 will kick off with an exclusive tour of the Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) facility in Green Bay.

Columns

For What It’s Worth

Kristen Kazarian

I don’t know about you, but with a big family and friends gathering over the holidays, the question “What do you do, again?” comes up. I answer, and the inquiry ends, as people don’t quite understand the role of packaging.

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Blogs

Made in America: Automating for Growth

As a focal point for several political campaigns, ‘Made in America’ has become a recurring strapline, promoting the use of American products to protect jobs in manufacturing.

6 Common Mistakes Made with Structural Packaging Projects

By David Bicknell

Digitalized Data Is Sustaining the Supply Chain

By Stuart Gannon

Columns

Flexible Insights: Materials

Dennis Calamusa

As a longtime supplier of flexible packaging machinery, I have had the unique opportunity to work with a number of companies to help them solve their evolving packaging challenges and continue to evolve their packaging— from large companies to a growing number of entrepreneurial startups.

Personal Care Packaging

Keeping Up with the Ecommerce Expansion

Tom Egan

As ecommerce platforms continue to grow, brands face the prospect of SKU proliferation and the challenges of ensuring products reach consumers in excellent condition.

Beverage Packaging

2020 Food and Beverage Sustainable Packaging Trends

What Millennials think, say and do will dominate all aspects of businesses for many years to come. The reason? Millennials are putting a significantly higher priority on sustainability than have the generations before them. That is the finding of EcoFocus Worldwide's 2019 U.S. Trends Survey.

Automation/Controls

IIoT-Enhanced Pneumatics Keep Packaging Machines Running Efficiently

Mark Densley

With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), packaging original equipment manufacturers are finding significant opportunities to improve the operation of pneumatics technology, helping users boost energy efficiency, enhance safety and cut downtime and maintenance costs.

Packaging Strategies

2020 February

In this issue of Packaging Strategies you will find “The Latest Packaging Innovations Changing the Rules,” “The Future of Cannabis Packaging” and “OEE and a Multi-Metric Approach,” along with articles on beauty and alcohol social media influencers, batch vs. continuous and aseptic sterilization, challenger brands bridging ecommerce and retail, and a popular Michigan brewing company who has what it takes to tap into the community.

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