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In its recently released market research reports “2017 Trends in Food Processing Operations” and “2017 Top to Top Summit Report,” PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing, identified the primary drivers.

Aseptic packaging is growing by leaps and bounds – and it’s no wonder. Aseptic packaging is made to be convenient – it is portable and lightweight, which is a big consumer draw.

In May 2016, the FDA finalized the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Label and Serving Size final rules, significantly revising the nutrition facts label for the first time in over 20 years.

Filling and closing has become more flexible, more compact and somewhat confusing. Should you buy the hype? The machinery has two jobs: Filling a pouch, bottle, carton, vial or the like and then closing it – by sealing, capping or otherwise.

Designed to power innovation across the industry, PACK EXPO Las Vegas will be North America’s largest packaging trade show in 2017, with 875,000 net square feet, 2,000+ exhibitors and 30,000 attendees.

What features do you need from the next conveyor system you purchase? How important is space-savings or high speeds? Do you need washdown capability as well as fast, easy maintenance? New technology and features for conveyors are being debuted that will improve your packaging system.

Move over soda, there’s some new bottled (and canned) beverages that have consumers excited about buying beverages again, and one of them is beer, which isn’t a huge surprise. Another is water, but more on that later.

In the personal care space, most consumers stay to the tried and true; however, these products are readily available on an e-commerce platform, and staying committed to the brands bought in-store is not the same as commitment to retailers or sites.

It is hard to meet such rapidly increasing market demands without fully or partly automated production lines, especially in developing markets where the share of manual processes is still high.

In the packaging business, the subject of environmental impact has been front and center for decades, primarily in terms of products' end-of-life. Packaging that goes to the landfill is targeted for replacement by recyclable, reusable and renewable materials. The goal is to reduce waste.