Three days of onsite voting allowed PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO attendees to be the ultimate judge of the most innovative new technologies at the show, dubbing seven exhibitors as the winners within their respective categories.
The four-sided, tetrahedron-shaped E-Z SnackPak pouch, in partnership with PepsiCo Mexico Foods for the Doritos Icognita brand, has won two industry awards.
In 2015, a study by Freedonia Group (freedoniagroup.com) projected that demand for tube and stick packaging in the U.S. would advance 4 percent per year to $2.1 billion in 2018, with stick packs making up the lion’s share of that growth relative to tubes.
DORI is a new interactive on-package QR code from Foster Farms allowing consumers to scan DORI for real-time access to coupons, recipes, a guide to poultry labeling terms, and more.
The world market for packaging machinery value is expected to reach $42.2 billion by 2021, according to PMMI’s “Global Trends Impacting the Market for Packaging Machinery 2018” report.
Yakima Chief Hops, based in Yakima, Wash., he 100 percent grower-owned largest international provider of hops, worked with Retail Voodoo on a full-scale rebrand.
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 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.