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Heinz Ketchup’s New Dispensing Valve | Materials Shortages Rankle Bev Industry
Iconic Heinz Ketchup switched to a new dispensing valve and closure that will make the pack more sustainable. Meanwhile, beverage producers struggle with materials shortages.
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unPACKed Podcast: A 1st Look At PACK EXPO 2022
Contract packaging
Contract Packaging Industry Enjoys In-Person Events
Materials & containers
Material Packaging Innovations Include Bag-in-Box Cocktail
Materials & containers
Nutifood Differentiates Its Dairy with Packaging
Primary packaging
Iraqi Beverage Producer Efficiently Quenches Baghdad's Thirst with High-Speed PET Water Line
From Baghdad, Iraq, where keeping hydrated in an arid, sunny climate is essential, comes an interesting high-speed, high-efficiency water-bottling project. With a speed of 48,000 bottles/hour (bph), the line, installed by Sidel, achieves 96% OEE.
Contract packaging
Got Capacity? Need Some?
In light of current supply chain disruptions, both CP/CMs and their clients must be more realistic than ever about estimating capacity for new business opportunities.
Sustainability
Kraft Heinz Ketchup Packaging Adopts New Dispensing Valve Tech
Iconic Heinz Ketchup recently received a valve closure makeover. An award-winning valve system, the recyclable SimpliCycle from Aptar Food and Beverage, will be found in several Kraft Heinz brands by the end of the year.
Sustainability
Paper Can for Sangria is the Full Package
Imported from Spain, Pulpoloco Sangria not only has beautiful branding, but its aseptic paper can is shaped like a traditional beverage can, while using 30% less material than aluminum or PET.
Machinery
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Schubert North America to Build New Headquarters
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Customized Option for Horizontal Automatic Bagger
Secondary/end-of-line
Poultry Producer Combines Checkweighing, Metal Detection Operations
Supplier Submitted
Formost Fuji Forms Partnership with Capper-McCall
Design
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Heinz Ketchup’s New Dispensing Valve | Materials Shortages Rankle Bev Industry
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Placon Opens Expanded Indiana Facility
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Recyclable Protective Mailer
Materials & containers
Material Packaging Innovations Include Bag-in-Box Cocktail
Issues
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Heinz Ketchup’s New Dispensing Valve | Materials Shortages Rankle Bev Industry
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unPACKed Podcast: A 1st Look At PACK EXPO 2022
Contract packaging
Contract Packaging Industry Enjoys In-Person Events
Supplier Submitted
Peter Fox Promoted to CEO at Somic Packaging
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Heinz Ketchup’s New Dispensing Valve | Materials Shortages Rankle Bev Industry
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PACK EXPO Las Vegas: Cannabis Expert Chris Walsh Shares Insights
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Viable Edible Packaging Applications: Rare but Real (and Thought-Provoking)
Take Five
Reduced “Friction” & Pandemic Nudge Pave Way for Smart Packaging
Supplier News
Technical troubleshooting tips for today’s shrink packaging
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unPACKed with OEM Podcast: Packaging and Processing's Gender & Race Wealth Gap
Listen to OEM Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Neil's discussion with Below the Line President Jill Miller about Miller's goal to level the playing field for women and people of color in packaging and processing.
Secondary/end-of-line
Automation Drives Danone Variety Multi-packs in Mexico
Festo and Hybernya Industrial develop an end-of-line automated packaging solution for multi-packs for Danone and Danup yogurts in Mexico.
Materials & containers
Retailers, Brands Ride the Wave of Ocean-Bound Plastic
Ocean-bound plastic is gaining small but significant traction within the packaging sector, particularly from those in the rPET market.
Sustainability
Paperboard Fruit Carriers
Canada’s Niagara Orchard & Vineyard Corp., located in Virgil, Ontario, just completed its first season-long trial of paperboard carriers in place of thermoformed PET containers for fresh fruit.
PMMI news
A Farewell Lead Off
This column was my responsibility each month for many years.
Take Five
Viable Edible Packaging Applications: Rare but Real (and Thought-Provoking)
Edible packaging may never be truly mainstream, but there are niche situations where it can be viable and effective. Recently, applications have leapt off the conceptual drawing board and into commercialized projects for beta testing.
Sustainability
Avocado Cartons and Pet Food SIOC Among New Formats for E-Comm Packaging
See new trends in e-commerce packaging from ThePackHub’s November Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
Workforce
Clemson Announces Fall 2021 Outstanding Packaging Science Senior Award Winners
From Clemson University comes news about two 2021 awards. Henry Lopez won the Robert Testin Outstanding Packaging Science Senior Award for Fall 2021, and Michaela Gibson received the Packaging World Outstanding Senior Award for Fall 2021.
Package Design
Future-Proof: Design Your Packaging with Robotic Automation in Mind
As robot usage increases, package design should take into mind ease-of-use for this technology, in all points of a product’s life cycle.
Sustainability
Own Brand Proves Paper-Pack Concept for Store Brands
Built on selling into retail private label, Sofidel recently launched a consumer brand of its own, Nicky, to serve as a proof of concept and market testing brand for a unique paper-pack solution for bath tissue and paper towel packs.
Sustainability
New Packaging from Mars Petcare UK Cuts Plastic by 15M Pieces
Keeping its comparisons aptly within the animal realm, Mars Petcare UK claims its switch from shrink film to paperboard for mixed-can pet food multipacks will eliminate 30 elephants’ worth of plastic.
Sustainability
Big Boost for Compostable Molded Pulp?
Transitioning away from single-use plastic packaging is now widely accepted as a global imperative, and that transition may have gotten a big boost thanks to a recently announced collaboration.
Sustainability
L’Oréal Pioneers Bottle Made from Industrial Emissions
The prototype HDPE package is the result of a partnership with LanzaTech and TotalEnergies that converts carbon waste from emissions from a steel mill into recycled polyethylene with the same properties as virgin plastic.
Package Design
New Absolut Bottle Design Pays Tribute to Brand’s Credentials
In the biggest design refresh since 1979, Absolut Vodka’s new bottle graphics emphasize the brand’s Swedish provenance and showcase the community and culture driving the brand forward.
Sustainability
Packaging as a Business Asset: Loop Case Study
Loop’s prefill reuse model of sustainability has evolved since its development in 2017, and it’s growing as more retailers sign on to owning their own refillable packaging.
Take Five
Reduced “Friction” & Pandemic Nudge Pave Way for Smart Packaging
Gone are the clunky apps and poor content experiences that hampered consumer engagement with Intelligent Packaging. As friction abated, the pandemic demonstrated the value of contactless communication, ushering in an Intelligent Packaging renaissance.
Secondary/end-of-line
DTC Creates New Challenges for Secondary Packaging
Direct-to-consumer models require more durable secondary packaging, and considerations such as security, click-and-pick, and branding, also come into play.
Sustainability
Getting Noticed: KFC Changes its Colors and Asics Delivers Shoes in Blister Pack
See four examples of sustainable and eye-catching packaging from ThePackHub’s November Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
Sustainability
2020 PET Recycling Rate Drops, While Demand for rPET Surges
Annual report shows that while the U.S. demand in 2020 for rPET was strong, the collection of PET bottles decreased by approximately 2.3% to a recycling rate of 26.6%.
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EU Regulators, Recycling, and Healthcare Plastics
Packaging suppliers speak about the openness of regulators to understand the slower nature of life science manufacturers in adopting more sustainable packaging.
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unPACKed Podcast: Emphasis on Ease of Operation at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
PMMI Media Group Editors explore tools OEMs showcased at PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO specifically to attack workforce issues.
Sustainability
Lipman Family Farms Expands Compostable Packaging
Lipman Family Farms expanded its compostable packaging line, furthering the company’s dedication to providing innovative, sustainable practices from farm to shelf.
