Packaging Top Stories - Articles - Page 158

Materials

Tethered Caps & Lids Find a Home

The EU recently introduced a directive on marine plastic litter, and tethered caps and closures play an important role.

July 13, 2020

In May 2019, the Council of the European Union adopted the Single-Use Plastics (SUP) directive proposed by the Juncker Commission as an essential element of its Circular Economy Action Plan to reduce marine plastic litter.

Eagle EPX100 x-ray system for packaged products

Machinery

Staying Competitive in Challenging Times

Manufacturers look to invest in X-ray inspection equipment to set the stage for brand protection and future growth.

Kristen Kazarian

July 11, 2020

As COVID-19 reshapes the international manufacturing landscape, food and beverage companies are looking at ways to optimize their production efficiencies.

Brand Packaging: Business Development

Expanding Your Business Through New Product Development

Kristin Joker

July 11, 2020

Expansion is an essential part of any solid growth strategy. While it’s important to expand into new sales channels and scale your operations, you also need to expand your product lines to truly achieve sustainable growth.

Automation

Factory of the Future Solutions Unlock Equipment Efficiencies

Joaquin Ocampo

July 11, 2020

Food processing and packaging operations have always needed to respond with agility and efficiency to ever-changing consumer tastes and habits. That means a constant drive to bring new or modified products to market faster while maintaining productivity and profit margins.

Market Trends

Household Care Brand Offers an Uncomplicated Clean

A household care brand found that it doesn’t take fancy packaging to package a good product.

Kristen Kazarian

July 9, 2020

The household packaging space usually is not one to show off fancy designs and neat packaging. However, many brands in the sector have worked on sustainable efforts for their packaging — and the product inside.

Spotlight

Active Packaging Functions Gain More Traction

One solution was modified to work for foods as well as pharmaceuticals.

Kristen Kazarian

July 8, 2020

Active, smart and intelligent packaging solutions are used with food, pharmaceuticals and several other types of products to help extend shelf life, monitor freshness with temperature control, display information on quality, improve safety and improve user convenience.

Brand Packaging: Private Label Brands

Private Label Brand Boom Post-COVID

The pandemic has shifted consumer shopping and spending behaviors and put private brands in an ideal position to grow.

Kristin Joker

July 8, 2020

Since the start of the pandemic in the U.S., private-brand sales grew 29%, outpacing regular-branded product sales, which grew by 24%, according to the most recent data from Nielsen.

Bi-Directional Accumulation for Super High-Speed Filling

July 7, 2020

Multi-Conveyor recently modified the layout of a high speed canning line by adding intermediate sections and adding a massive stainless steel bi-directional accumulation table.

Composite Materials Reduce Plastics on Tray Packaging

July 7, 2020

Packaging buyers concerned about the climate should consider the existing alternatives and move to composite materials.

Catching the Consumer's Eye with Holographic Packaging

July 6, 2020

End-user demand and the search for more interesting packaging concepts and design show holography continues to prove itself as an extremely versatile and flexible technology.