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Top 100 Bloggers AwardPackaging Strategies editors and invited bloggers discuss industry trends, innovative new packages and offer a closer look at packaging issues. Read More
What I Learned from My Freezer

What I Learned from My Freezer

Stephen Dombroski
October 19, 2020
Like most people around the world, my family and I have been doing whatever we can to adjust to life under the restrictions that have been put in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the first things we did was determine what supplies we needed to buy to prepare ourselves for a world where we might not be able to leave our house. The first task was to go through our inventory of frozen food.
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Speed and Agility — the Engines Behind the New Normal

Speed and Agility — the Engines Behind the New Normal

Tom Newmaster
July 23, 2020

Along with the health threats of COVID-19 came a host of unpleasant impacts to daily life, such as shortages. Retailers were unable to keep up with the demand for staples like toilet paper, paper towels, etc.. 


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Cannabis Industry Ignites Job Market for Design and Packaging

Cannabis Industry Ignites Job Market for Design and Packaging

Tom Newmaster
June 2, 2020

Over 200,000 full-time jobs and growing — that’s the impact cannabis is having on our economy. This data didn’t come from the US government, but from a study reported in Leafly, the largest cannabis website in the world.


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Can Augmented Reality Improve Manufacturing?

Can Augmented Reality Improve Manufacturing?

Mark Howard
April 27, 2020

Augmented reality describes a digital enhancement to the external world. A good example of this would be Nintendo’s Pokémon Go app, which overlays images of characters onto the real world through the user’s mobile phone screen. 


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Staying Competitive with Automation

Staying Competitive with Automation

John Kuhnz
March 19, 2020

Faster speeds often equal higher rates of production, which can lead to greater profits. Of course, simply cranking up the speed of your conveyors won’t get you there — but automation will.  


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‘Bar’ing all

Bernard Pacyniak
September 9, 2015

Hearthside Food Solutions founder and chairman shares his insights with Candy Industry regarding the mega deal involving VSI and Post Holdings’ PowerBar facility.


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Breakfast sandwich, a wholesome, fulfilling breakfast centered around protein

Protein pushes breakfast bonanza

Andy Hanacek
September 2, 2015

For years, the health-and-wellness and food industries have been bringing Americans back to a traditional mindset — the decades-old foundational thought that eating a good breakfast can jumpstart the day and in some ways, assist with healthy goals in individual consumers.


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Processing a healthier future

Jessica Jacobsen, editor, Beverage Industry
Jessica Jacobsen
August 26, 2015

In the beverage industry, new products are fulfilling more than just offering refreshment.


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Industry survey: Convenience stores are a place for healthy snacks

Joyce Routson
Joyce Routson
August 19, 2015

Convenience store retailers are optimistic about their future, despite increasing competition from quick-service restaurants, according to data collected by their industry group.


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El regreso de lo artesanal, también a los refrescos

Ivan Rioja-Scott
August 12, 2015

Es innegable que la tendencia “hipster” es ya una corriente mundial y ha sido una de las pioneras en volver a lo artesanal.


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PACK EXPO Blog

Hear what editors and contributors have to say about PACK EXPO International. Read More
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Functionally Convenient Snack Packaging

Douglas J Peckenpaugh
October 28, 2014
Increasingly, three central tenets need consideration when approaching the idea of convenience and snacks.
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Next-generation automation in meat and poultry?

Andy Hanacek
October 14, 2014
Over the nine years I've covered the meat and poultry industries, visiting plants and seeing the ways in which processors produce their products, I've watched as the industry slowly moved portions of its operations toward a more automated “experience".
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Vertical stacking

Fresh is in

Produce packaging heats up aisles and homes.
Elisabeth Cuneo
Liz Cuneo
October 9, 2014
As we move into fall when foods fresh from harvest abound, this season really is the perfect time for nature’s candy, produce.
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Alliance for Innovation & Operational Excellence

Peer group educational resources at Pack Expo

Joyce Fassl
October 6, 2014
If you are attending PACK EXPO this year, there will certainly be many exhibits, meetings and educational session on your agenda.
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Beer bottles, plastic bottles—Avery Dennison has a label for you

Joyce Routson
Joyce Routson
September 23, 2014
What's new in labels? Avery Dennison will tell you - a lot.
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