For just about all of us, shopping is a huge part of our everyday lives. We buy food to fill our fridges, supplies to complete work in our offices, shoes for running or fashion, and millions of other items. We can buy just about anything, and it usually comes wrapped in an attractive little box or packed into a convenient little bag. Packaging is just everywhere, but did you ever wonder how it began?
This year’s Global Pouch West heads to Tempe, Arizona, with a dynamic program targeted to flexible packaging professionals doing business in the western U.S. The event will take place Nov. 13-15 at the Phoenix Marriott Tempe at the Buttes. Come to where brand owners, retailers and suppliers doing business in the West meet to network and discover the latest trends, markets and challenges in flexible packaging.
The acquisition provides Rohrer with additional thermoforming capacity, expanded product range and the largest combination run program for printed and thermoformed visual packaging products in the world.
A-B-C's Model 436 case sealer offers interchangeable tape and adhesive sealing on one machine, allowing snack packagers to switch from one sealing method to another without excessive downtime or the added expense of purchasing two machines.
Veritiv Corporation has joined the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS), a program to help sellers, merchants and manufacturers obtain certification of their products as Frustration Free Packaging, Ships-in-Own-Container and Prep-Free Packaging.
The European Union (EU) aims to levy measures to reduce plastic waste, including a new packaging law that regulates product responsibility for packaging much more stringently, aims to promote the consideration of environmental impact already during design and make it tangible in the price.
BOU, the better for you line of cooking ingredients, has launched a new range of instant soup cups with a new type of packaging that is recyclable and microwaveable with a transparent lid.
Nestlé, Unilever, Kraft Heinz and Premier Foods are just some of the food companies that have signed a U.K. initiative to cut food waste by 50 percent.
Free-From bakery category leader Genius Gluten Free has unveiled two wraps as part of a new ‘Good for the Gut’ range of six products, with design from London-based B&B studio.
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