Since its inception in the 1990s, ecommerce has been steadily increasing in popularity and is now an integral part of everyday life. Consumers have the ability to order practically any item that is delivered to their doorstep within a matter of hours or days.
There are many types of laminates used for decorative and “touch and feel” applications. What type of laminating films are being used now for both decorative and functional applications?
As new products appear and the promise of a bigger marketplace looms, both product and the market play a part in determining the most effective package.
The two principle purposes of packaging are to protect the product it carries and the consumer who buys it, and to market that product to purchasers, both directly and indirectly.
It may feel as if there is no pressure — or will — to transform. But in my experience at Söhner Kunststofftechnik GmbH, a top supplier of reusable transport packaging headquartered in Germany, that inertia is mostly an illusion.
The term “new normal” became a corporate cliché after it was used ad nauseam after the 2008 financial crisis. The phrase is being used once again to describe the fallout related the current pandemic.
Due diligence goes a long way toward ensuring a proper match between your new form fill seal equipment and your production and sales goals. This was my own firsthand experience for many years while I was on the purchasing side, specifying packaging equipment for a global food manufacturer.
Skittles is giving up its signature rainbow by removing the iconic colorful branding to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and highlight that only #OneRainbow matters. For the first time in the U.S., the brand is releasing limited-edition packs with a colorless package design and colorless candies inside.
In April 2020, Kao began sales of MyKirei, a brand that embodies the Kirei Lifestyle, in the United States through its subsidiary Kao USA.
June 11, 2020
MyKirei is a Japanese personal care brand with a collection of products inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kirei. Flexible Packaging spoke to Yoshinori Inagawa, general manager of packaging technology research, global R&D of Kao Corporation about the packaging for MyKirei.
Flexible packaging solutions have been available for a number of years, but innovation is allowing the industry to develop improved functional solutions. Today, the marketplace is seeing tremendous growth with film-faced pouches.