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Packaging Outlook 2018: Fundamentals Drive Packaging Innovation

This report is an excerpt from the 2018 Packaging Outlook Report, featured in Packaging Strategies NEWS.

Sean Riley is editorial director marketing & communications at PMMI

March 1, 2018

The recent series of Vision 2025 focus groups conducted by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, captured an increasingly popular sentiment throughout the packaging community.

White Lily specialty flours are sold in a reclosable box pouch

PS News Special Report: Pouch Review

Pouches Can Be Functional and Strategic

June 30, 2016

Freedonia Group predicts pouches will be a $10bn U.S. industry in 2020.

Special report: Global Pouch Forum preview

Understanding traceability in the food supply chain

A guidance document on the best practices in food traceability

April 13, 2016

Tejas Bhatt discusses the Institute of Food Technologists' guidance document on best practices in food traceability for bakery, dairy, meat and poultry, processed foods, produce, and seafood.

Charles Gross is an analyst with Morningstar

Special Report: Performance Review

Mixed Year Financially for U.S. Packaging Companies

March 31, 2016

In Packaging Strategies News’ analysis of the 16 in our group, sales growth averaged only 1.8% for the year.

PS News Special Report: Top Innovations

Top Packaging Innovations of 2015

December 15, 2015

Packaging Strategies News takes a look at the top innovations that emerged in packaging this year.

PS News Special Report: Pack Expo Review

Flexible, Sustainability on Show at Pack Expo

October 30, 2015

At North America’s big Pack Expo show last month, it was not difficult to see that machinery and material suppliers are working to capitalize on some trends sweeping the packaging industry.

Special Report: Fastest-growing

Fastest-growing Packaging Companies of 2015

September 30, 2015

For the second year in a row, Packaging Strategies News is presenting a list of the fastest-growing private packaging companies in North America.

Special Report: Pouch Review

The stand-up pouch success model

May 31, 2015

While stand-up pouches are less numerous than flat (also known as pillow) pouches which more resemble bags, they are the fastest-growing pouch type and a major growth segment in the entire packaging industry.

Special Report: Performance Review

Positive 2014 profit reports for most

March 31, 2015

The majority of public packaging companies turned in respectable 2014 financial reports, in a year that was punctuated by two large merger announcements in the fourth quarter that will remake future industry share rankings.