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Market Trends

Ready-to-Heat Dishes: The New Regular Food

Consumers are moving toward vegan options, and with the new choices available, it’s no wonder.

June 12, 2020

With the rise in plant-based diets and healthy foods, companies are starting to focus on providing foods that make consumers physically feel good. And Upton’s Naturals dishes, alone or added as a meal, are just what consumers have been craving in variety.

2.25 mil lamination with moisture and oxygen barrier properties

Materials

Companies Partner to Donate Hand Sanitizer Packets

HR Pharmaceuticals moves from ultrasound gel to packaging single-pack hand sanitizer, with help from C-P Flexible Packaging.

Kristin Joker

June 12, 2020

The hand sanitizer pack has a 2.25 mil lamination with moisture and oxygen barrier properties designed to seal through contamination.

Converting: Slitting/Winding

Is It Time to Outsource?

Consider how printing and slitting/winding operations pays dividends for brands and packaging suppliers.

Dante Ercoli

June 12, 2020

Although many consumer goods manufacturers (CGMs) and packaging suppliers have comprehensive, fully integrated packaging operations, there are strong arguments that favor outsourcing certain printing, slitting and winding activities to contractors specializing in these areas.

Technology: eCommerce

Embracing the Challenge of eCommerce Packaging

Jay Funderburk

June 12, 2020

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.

Industry Q&A: Special Advertising Section

Coating & Laminating in Flexible Packaging Applications

June 12, 2020

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?

Machinery: Cannabis

Packaging for the Evolving Cannabis Market

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.

Mark Suchy

June 12, 2020

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.

Case Study

The Söhner Digital Transformation: What We’ve Done and Why It’s Working

If you want to digitize a 50-year-old company, where and how do you begin?

Maximillian Haag

June 12, 2020

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.

Editor’s Forum

The Role of Packaging in the Next Normal

Kristin Joker

June 11, 2020

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.

The Morpheus vertical form, fill & seal machine from Matrix

Machinery

Communication Is Key to Successful Form, Fill & Seal Projects

Understand your application and communicate expectations of the equipment and the partnership you want.

Alex Diaz

June 11, 2020

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.