Two unconventional influencers have used social media to amass a loyal following to build multi-million dollar brands based on their unique — and often polarizing — personalities.

The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) has announced the top winners of its 76th annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition. These folding cartons and rigid boxes represent some of the best paperboard packaging manufactured by North American converters over the past year.

Hoffman Neopac's Tamper Evident Nozzle and Twist’n’use tubes exemplify solutions to be manufactured in the Wilson, N.C. plant starting spring 2019.

LBK Nails has altered the way consumers pick their polish, with a new multi-functional cap for its nail polish bottles that allows consumers to "try on" the color before purchase.

Green tech company rPlanet Earth will make about 75 million pounds per year of two product types from 100 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET): forms for beverage containers and food packaging. 

Bain Capital Private Equity has acquired World Wide Packaging LLC, a leading provider of cosmetic packaging components, plastic tubes and formulation/filling technologies. Simultaneous with Bain Capital’s purchase of World Wide Packaging, the firm has agreed to purchase a Chinese cosmetics packaging manufacturer and plans to merge the two companies to form a fully integrated solutions provider.

The convenience trend is driving the consumer packaged goods sector across the globe. Busy urban dwellers are increasingly looking for products in packages that suit their time-poor lifestyles. To cater to this set of consumers, Yujiahui Co. Ltd. created Unifon Kiss U CC lipstick with a disc-shaped new packaging design in China.

Praxis Packaging has acquired Unette Corporation of Randolph, NJ, which will expand Praxis’ packaging solutions to include liquid, cream and paste products in tubes, bottles, jars and stick packs.

French haute couture fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier and CROWN Aerosols & Specialty Packaging Europe, a business unit of Crown Holdings Inc., have collaborated to produce creative new package designs for the brand’s ‘Le Male’ and ‘Classique’ fragrances.