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Background: Blue polygonal background with golden lines. Foreground from left to right: 2024 featured Women in Packaging – Dana Austin, Jessica Fischer, Babitha George, Kate Gilpin, Amy Mercante, Amy Phinney.
Leadership

WOMEN IN PACKAGING: STEM in the Spotlight

A common theme that surfaced in the course of interviewing this year’s featured professionals is the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) when it comes to young women considering a career in packaging.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
October 15, 2024

Discover what inspired these six professionals to pursue careers in packaging and their advice for young women considering the same.


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Cannabis

Cannabis Packagers' Can-do Approach

As demand for cannabis grows by leaps and bounds, so does the demand for innovative and sustainable cannabis packaging. These companies are rising to the occasion.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
September 5, 2024

Learn more about how these companies are leading the charge when it comes to developing and offering innovative and sustainable cannabis packaging solutions.


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Track & Trace

The Evolution of Serialization and the Role of Packaging

David González
August 22, 2024

The packaging industry supports pharmaceutical and health sectors, with serialization playing a transformative role in ensuring compliance with regulations.




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Track & Trace

Antares Vision Group Completes First Phase of Serialization for Cosmeceuticals Provider

August 22, 2024

Antares Vision Group has implemented a traceability solution for cosmeceutical skin care provider Episciences, Inc., addressing supply chain visibility and gray market diversion challenges. The system was developed by ACSIS, a business unit of Antares Vision Group.



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Track & Trace

Ensuring Product Safety: The Important Role of Track & Trace

Track and trace solutions are critical for product safety, preventing counterfeiting and achieving supply chain transparency. These companies are making names for themselves in the sphere of traceability and serialization.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
August 22, 2024

The global track and trace solutions market is expected to reach $28.9 billion by 2032, with companies in various industries utilizing these solutions for production and sales tracing and compliance. Notable firms such as MM Packaging, Antares Vision Group, and Deitz Co. have developed innovative solutions for these needs.


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Fresh Produce

Eco-Friendly Produce Packaging: A Cornucopia of Innovation

Packaging Strategies’ reporting in recent months reveals an abundance of novel approaches to eco-friendlier produce packaging.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
July 22, 2024

This story explores recent innovations making produce packaging more eco-friendly. But first, let's take a broader look at the produce packaging market.


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Spotlight

2024 State of Flexible Packaging

Flexible packaging innovation follows in the wake of a legislative sea change across our global consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.
Douglas J Peckenpaugh
July 8, 2024

As part of our 2024 "State of Flexible Packaging" initiative, The Packaging Group from BNP Media reached out to leading converters for their input on the current EPR legislative climate.


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Caps, Closures, Lids

No Caps On Innovation

From child-resistant pharmaceutical vials that can be opened with one hand to wine capsules incorporating an unprecedented amount of recycled tin, there are many new things under the sun when it comes to caps and closures.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
June 17, 2024

Packaging Strategies has extensively covered recent innovations in caps and closures, each distinctly unique in materials, applications, and specific benefits.


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Automation

End-of-line Solutions Take Center Stage

Time and again in the course of our reporting on automation and robotics, end-of-line challenges such as palletizing and case forming come to the fore.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
June 10, 2024

Learn more about these exciting new developments in automation and robotics.


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Inspection/Detection

From Wine to Tortillas: Inspection, Detection, and Vision Systems Play Crucial Role

From properly counting out pharmaceuticals to guaranteeing the proper bottling of wine — and even ensuring that the wine bottles themselves are up to snuff — inspection, detection and vision systems play a myriad crucial roles in CPG packaging.
Brad Addington
Brad Addington
May 28, 2024

Reporting by Packaging Strategies over the last several months reveals the innumerable applications of inspection/detection/vision equipment.


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