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Skye Clarke (front) and Sam Epperson (back) of Cardinal Spirits fill bottles of hand sanitizer that are headed to a senior living community.

Distilleries Refit to Fill Hand-Sanitizer Gap

During World War II, Ford made tanks instead of cars and Maytag made plane parts instead of washing machines. With hand sanitizer being the small-arms munitions of today’s pandemic crisis, cosmetics and distilleries are joining the war effort.

An Appeal to Support Our Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure Workers

HR Pharmaceuticals won an FPA silver award for EcoVue by Glenroy. It is a flexible package for ultrasound gel featuring custom film requiring less energy to manufacture and transport.

Ultrasound Gel Pouch Gets Ergonomic Design, Reduces Waste

Master motivator Dan Clark provided the keynote for the 2020 CPA Annual Meeting.

CPA’s 2020 Annual Meeting a Huge Success

COVID-19’s Impact on the Canadian Market

OEM COVID-19 #5: BellatRx & Mpac Langen

Alison Keane, President, FPA at the 2020 CPA Annual Meeting

Fighting Back Against Anti-Plastics Legislation

At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it.

Cornell Creates Detailed Covid 19 Website For Food Industry

Cornell Creates COVID-19 Website for Food Industry

Helps food processors determine what’s necessary to protect the public and employees, while helping to maintain safe U.S. food supply

Opinion: Packaging Industry Begins COVID-19 Response

Rapid response to crisis seen industry wide, inspiring hope and reflecting resilience in the time of a crisis.

Automatic full-pallet infeed capability ahead of the empty-can depalletizer is a recent addition to the range of equipment made by Ska Fabricating. Allagash was the first to install it.

‘Quality Conscious’ Canning

This Portland, Maine, brewery decided to “dip our toes in the can market” by installing a small filler/seamer. It quickly became clear that a 300 cans/minute line was going to be required.

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Automatic full-pallet infeed capability ahead of the empty-can depalletizer is a recent addition to the range of equipment made by Ska Fabricating. Allagash was the first to install it.

‘Quality Conscious’ Canning

HR Pharmaceuticals won an FPA silver award for EcoVue by Glenroy. It is a flexible package for ultrasound gel featuring custom film requiring less energy to manufacture and transport.

Ultrasound Gel Pouch Gets Ergonomic Design, Reduces Waste

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Printpack Wins Three Flexible Packaging Association Awards

Flexible Packaging for Infinite CBD Gummies

Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit

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Mineral Oil-Free Inks

An Appeal to Support Our Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure Workers

Skye Clarke (front) and Sam Epperson (back) of Cardinal Spirits fill bottles of hand sanitizer that are headed to a senior living community.

Distilleries Refit to Fill Hand-Sanitizer Gap

Master motivator Dan Clark provided the keynote for the 2020 CPA Annual Meeting.

CPA’s 2020 Annual Meeting a Huge Success

COVID-19’s Impact on the Canadian Market

OEM COVID-19 #5: BellatRx & Mpac Langen

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Discover Lee Container’s Packaging Solutions. Our Containers. Your Success.

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Columbia/Okura introduces miniPAL™ a collaborative palletizing solution

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Webinar: Flexible Palletizing Solutions with Collaborative Robots

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XTS provides intelligent motion control for flow packaging applications

CPGs: Build Relationships for Contract Packaging Success

Robby Martin of Bush Brothers shares those factors that go into building great relationships between Consumer Packaged Goods companies and contract packagers/contract manufacturers.

Flexible Packaging for Infinite CBD Gummies

Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit

Dried flower is giving way to creams, gels, dried teas/powders and inhalers, products that doubled in growth in two years’ time. Packaging for cannabis is expanding to meet this growth.

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Opinion: COVID-19 Swings “Reusable” from Good to Bad

Global Pet Food Market Surpassed $94.6 billion in 2019

A new study from PMMI Business Intelligence, “Trends and Drivers Impacting The Pet Food Industry,” reveals North America is the top market for pet food, with an annual growth rate of 4.5% in the next five years.

The coffee is packaged in clear, recyclable, round-bottom vial-like tube with a screw-on cap that offers a number of advantages over multilayer sachets.

Premium, Single-Origin Instant Coffee is Totally Tubular

Boston area-based specialty coffee roaster introduces an instant coffee product produced using a new freeze-drying process and packaged in a PP tube that provides a nine-month shelf life.

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Packaging and Processing Industry COVID-19 Resources

PMMI collated resources for the industry to navigate business in uncertain times.

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All Roads Lead to Delay in the Time of COVID-19

Land, sea or air – the supply chain is being hard hit by shortages, delays, rising costs and lack of workers due to the coronavirus.

Nominations open for Packaging and Processing Hall of Fame

Now's the time to nominate deserving candidates for the 2020 class of the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Nominations will remain open through June 5, 2020.

Musings on Sustainability

Read what Jim Chrzan, VP of Content & Brand Strategy at PMMI Media Group, and Sean Riley, PMMI’s Senior Director of Media & Industry Communications, had to say about the state of sustainability during a lively conversation at the show earlier this month.

A heatmap of the economic impact of the coronavirus on North American industries shows low exposure for food and beverage processing, and packaging, among others.

Moody’s: Food Processing, Packaging Largely Resilient in the Face of COVID-19

A heatmap of the economic impact of the coronavirus on North American industries shows low exposure for food and beverage processing, and packaging, among others.

The COVID-19 Outbreak and Food Production

Food and beverage industry workers are deemed essential to critical infrastructure; FDA suspends some inspections.

How Morrison Container Handling Solutions and F.R. Drake Company are Navigating COVID-19

OEM Covid-19 Response #4: Morrison Container & F.R. Drake

Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers operational best practices for dealing with the pandemic.

How Polypack, Inc. and Garvey Corporation are Navigating COVID-19

OEM Covid-19 Response #3: Polypack, Inc. & Garvey Corp.

Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series provides an evolving look at how OEMs are forging ahead after employing proper caution.

Market Snapshot: Dairy

Retail-ready and flexible packaging demand is growing, and pouches and bags are expected to grow in milk packaging use.

A notable feature on the CCA440+ plastic carrier handle applicator is the overhead carrier queue. It lets an operator load up multiple stacks of carriers in one go and then turn to other tasks as the carriers are methodically conveyed into the feed station.

Revolution Brewing is All In On Cans

Though glass bottles were once a part of the mix at this well-known Chicago craft brewer, recently it’s been all about aluminum cans in multiple sizes.

How Pearson Packaging Systems is Navigating COVID-19

OEM Covid-19 Response #2: Pearson Packaging Systems

Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series reveals how packaging offers certainty during uncertain times.

At Fathead’s, cans exit a 24-head filler and are conveyed through an inspection system that checks for proper fill levels.

Craft Brewing—Quick Hits 2020

The steadily growing popularity of aluminum cans in the craft brewing segment has some brewers mothballing their glass bottling lines altogether.

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OEM Covid-19 Response #1: ProMach, Inc.

Special UnPACKED with PMMI podcast series offers candid insight from a global OEM supplier on surviving in a world that changes from day to day.

Matt Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World

PACK EXPO East: From the Floor

Did you miss PACK EXPO East? See what Packaging World Editor Matt Reynolds had to say in the “PACK EXPO Rewind Show Floor Findings” podcast with PMMI’s Sean Riley.

Flexible ‘Mason Jar’

Winning a Gold Award for Shelf Impact as well as Silver for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and another Silver for Packaging Excellence was the pre-made stand-up pouch for premium tomato sauces from Predilecta Alimentos Ltd of Brazil.

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Despite Confusion Over CBD, Sales Projected to Grow

The source and legality of CBD products can cause confusion to consumers, but product sales are expected to reach $20 billion in the US by 2024.

Dr. Keith Jerome (left), Director of the UW Medicine Virology laboratory in Seattle, and Dr. Alex Greninger, Assistant Director of the lab, quickly ramped up a test to detect the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. As of March 11, their lab had performed nearly 3,000 tests &horbar; with nearly 270 found to be positive.

Thermo Fisher, Roche Begin Large-Scale Shipping of COVID-19 Tests

In total, the companies are aiming to produce millions of tests per week. “We are grateful to the FDA for accelerating the process to grant Emergency Use Authorization for this test,” said Matt Sause, President and CEO of Roche Diagnostics North America.