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Recycling
Q&A: Recycling Partnership VP Calls CPGs’ Attention to Polypropylene Recycling
The VP of Material Systems at non-profit The Recycling Partnership outlines why CPGs should invest in polypropylene recycling and shares strategies and benefits of doing so.
October 8, 2025
The Recycling Partnership's Polypropylene Coalition, which includes 20-plus companies working together to capture and recycle more #5 plastic, has awarded roughly $20 million in grants, which has resulted in promising case studies.
Package Design
DataLase, KilianDruck GrĂĽnstadt Dinges, and EcoCortec Design Packaging for Enhanced Functionality
ThePackHub
See a few examples of packaging designed for enhanced functionality from DataLase, KilianDruck Grünstadt Dinges, and EcoCortec from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 8, 2025
The innovation enables packaging to transition from clear to black or white using a pulsed fiber laser, offering a label-free solution for inline coding.
Digital Transformation
The Rise of Connected Packaging
Jenny Stanley, founder of Appetite Creative, talks with Packaging World about the power of connected packaging to drive data, engagement, and sustainability.
October 7, 2025
Jenny Stanley, founder and managing director, Appetite Creative
Digital Transformation
Report: Agentic AI Moves From Vision to Value
Deloitte’s latest report reveals agentic AI is more than an automation tool, promising smarter design, resilient supply chains, and new aftermarket revenue streams—while keeping people at the center of production.
October 6, 2025
Agentic AI can help companies capture value that’s often lost in the handoff between disparate systems.
Operational Excellence
End Users Reveal Use of Most Common Sanitation Methods
Food and beverage professionals provide insight into the most common food safety sanitation methods they use and reveal they primarily use a combination of solutions.
October 3, 2025
Food and beverage companies are taking an integrated approach with their sanitation methods.
Recycling
Mars, Mopack, and Catarina Café e Amor Design Packaging for Recyclability
ThePackHub
See a few examples of recyclable packaging from Mars, Mopack, and Catarina Café e Amor from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 2, 2025
This packaging, made from polypropylene (PP), is reported to reduce the carbon footprint of the previous format by 46%.
PACK EXPO
Community Poll: Sustainable Innovations at Pack EXPO
Find out what area of sustainable packaging innovations your peers were most excited about at Pack EXPO.
October 1, 2025
Digital Transformation
Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 3: An Integrator’s Viewpoint
An integrator describes what it would take for humanoid robots to be a viable automation option, and whether they have seen any interest in the technology among CPG customers, in part three of our series exploring humanoid robots in packaging and processing.
September 30, 2025
A packaging line integrator would assess humanoid robots' performance in the context of surrounding equipment before deciding if they’re the right solution.
Workforce
How to Make the Most of an OpX Work Product: Spectrum Brands' Story
Learn how leaders at Spectrum Brands used the OpX “Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing” work product as a springboard for team development, and what other CPGs can learn from their approach.
September 29, 2025
The OpX 'Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing' work product aided Spectrum Brands leadership as they discussed gender and communication, business acumen, and networking with team members.
Operational Excellence
Three Regulatory Challenges End Users Face in Sanitation
Food and beverage professionals note top challenges they face in food safety sanitation operations, with employees, collaborators, and updates top of mind.
September 26, 2025
Food and beverage professionals need to stay on top of employee training, be on the same page as stakeholders, and stay updated on regulations to counter challenges.
Digital Transformation
Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 2: Cautious Curiosity Among CPGs
Some CPGs are evaluating humanoid robots as an automation solution, but interest isn’t translating to adoption quite yet in part two of this three-part series exploring the potential for humanoid robots in packaging and processing.
September 25, 2025
Humanoid robots can perform repetitive tasks like moving case-like containers, but adoption in CPG manufacturing will require more certainty around aspects like safety and ROI.
Recycling
Community Poll: Effectiveness of EPR Legislation
Learn where your peers stand on the long-term impact of EPR.
September 24, 2025
Operational Excellence
How Sanitation Chemicals Play Into Machine Wear, Corrosion
Food and beverage industry professionals, OEMs, and suppliers agree on one key sanitation-related culprit that causes machine wear and corrosion.
September 19, 2025
Sanitation chemicals could be a key culprit to machine wear and corrosion, industry professionals say.
Bio-based
Hydropac, NantBioRenewables, Montague Farms Design Bio-based Packaging
ThePackHub
See a few examples of bio-based packaging from Hydropac, NantBioRenewables, Montague Farms from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
September 18, 2025
The sheep wool insulation is designed to maintain chilled or ambient temperatures for 24 to 48 hours depending on configuration and ambient conditions.
Recycling
Community Poll: Right-sizing Packaging
Learn where your peers stand on the benefits of right-sizing packaging.
September 17, 2025
Digital Transformation
QR Code Brings Play to Danone’s Plant-Based Kids Line
Danone brings connected packaging to its new Alpro kids range of soy beverages and yogurt in Europe, blending plant-based products with a digital game that entertains while it educates.
September 17, 2025
Alpro’s connected packaging experience features an on-pack QR code that links to a web app styled as a classic adventure video game.
Sustainability
Global Packaging Trends Point to a New Strategic Approach
New AMERIPEN Executive director Lynn Dyer highlights global packaging trends, shifting policies, and the need for a new strategic approach to balance sustainability with industry growth.
September 16, 2025
The intersection of growth and sustainability-linked knowledge building, increasingly driven by policy, prompts change, says AMERIPEN Executive Director Lynn Dyer.
Digital Transformation
Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 1: Continuous Upgrades, Some Industry Adoption
Humanoid robot technology has advanced quickly since Packaging World first covered it in 2023. In the first of this three-part series revisiting humanoid robots as a potential packaging labor solution, we hear from suppliers about their latest advancements, industry deployments, and vision for the technology’s future.
September 16, 2025
Humanoid robots like Apptronik's Apollo are capable of completing repetitive tasks on the CPG plant floor, like repetitive lifting or material replenishment.
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