Many packaging machinery manufacturers find that implementing PackML across a machine product line isn’t as difficult as first thought and that the rewards exceed expectations. By implementing PackML, OEMs experience:

Building on its theme covering the evolution of pouches, the 2019 Global Pouch Forum features presentations focused on innovation, sustainability and developing markets.

Flexible packaging — especially the pouch — is still the fastest growing segment globally. Over the last decade, its share of total packaging in the U.S. increased from 16 percent to its current 19 percent.

Polish mushroom brand Jantex recently developed a unique combination of selected mushrooms combined with rice and buckwheat, presented in a pouch that meets the growing market requirements for recyclability.

In this newly created role, Gutberlet will build and lead the Mondi DX team. With a team of internal and new digital experts, he will be responsible for accelerating Mondi’s digital transformation. 

Any trip to the supermarket reveals the latest trend in flexible packaging: stand-up pouches. Aisles are swelling with SUPs as big brands like M&M/Mars, Hershey, Kellogg’s and General Mills switch from lay-flat bags or bag-in-box to stand-up pouches.

Kellogg is undergoing a “notable shift” toward single-serve and on-the-go pack formats with immediate consumption offerings and multi-packs in developed markets, and single-serve sachets with more affordable price points in emerging markets.

Healthy Times — a premium, verified non-GMO, organic brand for babies and toddlers — is now appealing to a new generation of parents that are seeking quality options for their children’s nutrition.

Glenroy leverages proprietary VOLPAK converting technology to deliver the STANDCAP Pouch as a turnkey, premade pouch solution.

This year’s Global Pouch West heads to Tempe, Arizona, with a dynamic program targeted to flexible packaging professionals doing business in the western U.S. The event will take place Nov. 13-15 at the Phoenix Marriott Tempe at the Buttes. Come to where brand owners, retailers and suppliers doing business in the West meet to network and discover the latest trends, markets and challenges in flexible packaging.