The way food is packaged and marketed is constantly changing, thanks in part to consumer trends, the goal of packaging sustainability and the never-ending fight to reduce food waste. This has resulted in a wide variety of enhancements that continue to evolve.

Kettle Foods Ltd presents the KETTLE & More range with user-friendly pack reclosability to maintain freshness and support portion control, from Essentra Tapes.

Arranti’s Chamber Pouch allows for the creation of standup flexible gusset pouches with up to three separate chambers, an ideal solution for selling combinations of two or more products that are typically used together or mixed.

The PET plastic bottle is the second most popular consumer pack type, after flexible plastic (in 2016 retail unit volume sales), and is set to grow by 3.9% over the next five years. 

At PMMI’s Executive Leadership Conference in Miami mid-March, I got to hear from David Strauss, Nestlé USA’s head of packaging. He discussed some of the current trends impacting consumer packaging and the machines that create them. 

More than half of this waste occurs in households and poorly-designed packaging is one of the primary culprits. 

A shift in consumer preference towards premium products is transforming the packaging industry

New line of facial cleansing products for women feature innovative fabric-based technologies to help reveal your best skin
 

Reclosable packaging in period of rapid growth, as manufacturers realize added value reclosable features offer consumers