Georgia-Pacific is expanding its offerings to include paper padded mailers. In May, the company opened a new facility in Arizona to manufacture curbside recyclable paper padded mailers with Amazon as a key customer.

The Better With Less – Design Challenge had an international jury including packaging design experts from various fields related to packaging, design, brand strategy and innovation. After the judging concluded and the finalists chosen, a roundtable panel discussed what they saw as well as the challenges facing the packaging community.

Botta Packaging flanked the leading Italian supermarkets chain Esselunga to develop an innovative envelope, entirely lined with corrugated paper, to protect bottles and eggs during online shopping deliveries.

The Alloyd Division of Sonoco has introduced its first, all-paper retail blister package. 

How much differentiation and innovation can you really add to a cardboard box and a few ounces of Styrofoam peanuts? This existential question makes up the foundation of the packager's dilemma. 

This report forecasts US paper and paperboard production and demand in short tons to 2021. Total production is segmented by product. In addition, total shipments and total demand are forecasted to 2021 in US dollars at the manufacturers’ level.

Charta Global has added the Enza Kraft to its full line of specialty papers. The new machine-glazed kraft paper with excellent strength properties is ideally suited for food and non-food protective packaging, and various technical and industrial applications.

Smurfit Kappa, will host The Americas Innovation Event in Dallas on September 21, 2017. The event will highlight the future of packaging and will have an exhibition of the latest innovations in packaging that contribute to winning in the marketplace.