The ready-to-eat market comprises packaging of prepared foods by foodservice operations of supermarkets, convenience stores, mass retailers and other stores (e.g., natural foods stores, club stores) and excludes precooked products from food manufacturers.
The PET plastic bottle is the second most popular consumer pack type, after flexible plastic (in 2016 retail unit volume sales), and is set to grow by 3.9% over the next five years.
The Corrugated Packaging Alliance released a new U.S. corrugated industry life cycle assessment, which shows the corrugated industry’s environmental progress.
The next staging of interpack, a leading international trade fair for the packaging sector and related processing industries, will take place May 7-13, 2020, at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Proving that PACK EXPO Las Vegas remains in step with, or even ahead of the latest innovations in packaging, automated packaging distribution will take to the air at the "PACK EXPO Drone Demo - Packaging for the Last Mile" interactive display.
Bringing together both folding carton manufacturers and industry technology suppliers, the community will help The Paperboard Packaging Council members explore new digital technologies and understand the growing trend toward low-volume orders.
Communities with large numbers of residents who have only high school degrees or earn low salaries are at risk of losing many jobs to automation and offshoring, says a new report from Ball State University.
With growth at a standstill, Vertical Research Partners' packaging and forest products analyst Chip Dillon, offers insight into the U.S. containerboard sector.
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