“Beauty is everywhere a very welcome guest,” wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the start of the 19th century. And already 3,000 years before this, a great deal of time and care was devoted to external appearance.
At PMMI’s Executive Leadership Conference in Miami mid-March, I got to hear from David Strauss, Nestlé USA’s head of packaging. He discussed some of the current trends impacting consumer packaging and the machines that create them.
Danone and Nestlé Waters have joined forces with Origin Materials, a startup based in Sacramento, CA, to form the NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and together, the three aim to develop and launch at commercial scale a PET bottle made from bio-based material.
Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, the business segment of The Walt Disney Company, is the newest member of the growing program, How2Recycle.
Klöckner Pentaplast will present Pentafood® Hotfill PET at CFIA in Rennes, France, today through March 9th and also show a wide range of high- performance films.
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) begins 2017 with a new team to lead the association: Board chairman, Board of Directors and new Committee leadership.
The global smart packaging market is expected to grow at 5.4% CAGR, hitting about US$52B by 2025. Market drivers include growing market for sustainable printed electronics, the Internet of Things and cloud computing, and rising food safety concerns.
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