Articles by Brad Addington

Cereal is a popular food in the United States, with 50 million boxes sold each week. Many consumers, however, are unaware of its nutritional benefits like fiber, protein, and essential vitamins. To highlight these advantages, WK Kellogg Co has redesigned its packaging. We spoke with Doug VanDeVelde, Chief Growth Officer at WK Kellogg Co, about the new SPOONS on-pack nutrition framework.

Sahar Mehrabzadeh and Sara Lowe of Bay Cities share how the company is helping retailers and brands achieve compliance with California’s SB 54 and other state-level Extended Producer Responsibility programs.

Honor coincides with Kelpi’s food contact approval in the United States, which is expected this year and will mark a key milestone unlocking new opportunities for food applications in one of the world’s largest packaging markets.

Rodrigo Castaneda of TIPA and Jared Damman of WildKind make the case for compostable packaging, especially for difficult-to-recycle food contact packaging.

I was delighted to learn recently that one of my favorite food brands had responded to one of my biggest packaging pet peeves—Styrofoam coolers that clutter up my garage and create a disposal problem that I didn’t ask for. Learn about the innovative packaging alternative that they settled upon.

We sat down with Latricia Fry of Inteplast to discuss how both mono-material and multi-material flexible packaging formats are viable options when it comes to meeting Extended Producer Responsibility mandates.

Extended Producer Responsibility, compostable packaging, and mono-material pouches were among the key themes at this year’s event.

After predicting last year that digital printing would dominate 15% of label sales by 2025, Paul Edwards of INX International provides an update. We sat down with Paul again to ask 1) if digital label sales grew as much as anticipated and 2) what lies in store for digital label sales going forward. Get Paul’s projections and the underlying factors behind them.

North American resin costs have soared to historic highs, with no clear end in sight. Ric Lee of Atlantic Packaging suggests that the fix to the plastic price crisis starts on the pallet.

Arithmetic is simple. Compliance is not. We recently sat down with Anna Kendall of Ernst & Young LLP to discuss the challenges of meeting both imminent and long-term EPR mandates, including a coordinated May 31 reporting deadline across six states.