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Bio-based
Live from drupa: Pizza A Mano Slices Plastic with Heat-Sealable Paper
Pizza A Mano’s frozen pizza in paper packaging brings easy recyclability to a product traditionally packaged in flexible plastic.
June 17, 2024
Pizza A Mano's new paper frozen pizza packaging features light humidity resistance for the drive home from the store.
Contract packaging
Contaminant Regulations Pose Challenges for Processors
Federal guidelines and independent state rules that are often not aligned can create significant hurdles for the industry to maintain consistent compliance for contaminants.
June 17, 2024
Lead in Food
Recycling
Sainsbury's Extends Pulp Packaging From Steak to Fish/Poultry
The UK retailer introduces recyclable pulp and cardboard packaging for its own-brand fish and chicken, aiming to save nearly 700 tons of plastic annually and enhance sustainability.
June 17, 2024
Sainsbury Fish
Bagging & Pouching
Live at drupa: Recycle-ready Barrier Paper, Mono-OPE Flexible Packs Await Infrastructure
Recyclable, mono-material, high-barrier substrates result from supply chain partnerships, from raw materials suppliers to converters and packaging machinery OEMs to brands. But the real barrier to recycling is a lack of curbside recycling infrastructure.
June 14, 2024
'We said at the beginning, we need to replace the aluminum layer, but we said we should also avoid over-engineering when possible. So we set ourselves two separate targets. The first one was to find a barrier level which is the equivalent of metalized PET. And we're talking barrier to water vapor (WVTR) and barrier to oxygen (OTR). The equivalent of metallized PET is a barrier of less than 1 OTR, and less than 1 WVTR. We also needed a barrier which is equivalent to aluminum. So we need to have less than 0.1, OTR and less than 0.1 WVTR. And if you look at the values here, AluBond, the metallized version, has three points. And that is the equivalent of less than 0.1 OTR and WVTR, so that's your aluminum barrier. And for those who don't need that level, you can have the option of the transparent version, which here you can see as the AlOx (aluminum oxide), we've called it and that has two pluses, because that's that less than 1 OTR, and less than 1 WVTR. In our language to simplify things we call one high barrier and the other ultra-high barrier,' Alexander says.
Package Printing
Live at drupa: Software Gives Brands Control of Pack Asset Libraries, Printing Review & Approval
With these new web-based software platforms, brands are taking more control over their own packaging asset libraries, not to mention multi-stakeholder package review and approval processes, that once tended to be the domain of their converter suppliers.
June 13, 2024
Dalim's Flaurent Epaud demonstrates Dalim ES Fusion platform at drupa, with an example of a chip bag from Swiss brand Zweifel potato chips.
Bio-based
Sony, Flow Beverage, and Da Matteo Introduce Bio-Based Packaging Innovations
ThePackHub
See a few examples of bio-based packaging innovations from Sony, Flow Beverage, and Da Matteo from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
June 13, 2024
Sony designed its cushioning mold structure to maintain proper performance while using Kaneka's Green Planet material.
Recycling
Estée Lauder Closes in on Sustainable Packaging Goals
Luxury cosmetics company Estée Lauder shares how internal design guidelines and innovative packaging strategies have allowed it to come within 4% points of its 2025 sustainability goals.
June 13, 2024
In North America, ELC has developed a closed-loop system to reincorporate some of MAC’s signature black plastic collected through the Back-to-Mac takeback program into new makeup packaging. Image courtesy of The Estée Lauder Companies
Labeling
Cosmeceuticals Co. Completes First Phase of Serialization
Episciences, Inc.'s new track & trace system offers enhanced supply chain visibility while deterring gray market diversion for its popular skin care products. With more than several dozen unique offerings, initiating new SKUs has proven a smooth process.
June 12, 2024
Episciences was able to integrate ACSIS’ Serialization Management system without the hassle and cost of modifying existing secondary packaging artwork or labeling procedures to prioritize barcode placement.
Recycling
New HP Computer Packaging Cuts Plastic and Extra Space
HP redesigns its All-in-One PC packaging to reduce expanded polyethylene foam use by up to 98%, while also rightsizing to improve transport efficiency.
June 11, 2024
HP has cut expanded polyethylene use by up to 98% for its All-in-One PC packaging.
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June 10, 2024
Recycling
Harmonizing Recycling Data Standards: Increasing Clarity for Consumers and Stakeholders Alike
Industry aligned data standards are integral to eliminating confusion over packaging and recyclability, not only for consumers, but for the entire recycling value chain.
June 9, 2024
DeNeile Cooper, The Recycling Partnership
Contract packaging
Five Questions To Answer With New Automation Projects
In the post-COVID automation boom, contract manufacturing and packaging firms face complexities when dealing with brand owners' new and untested technologies.
June 6, 2024
Robby Martin, Engineering Specialist, Bush Brothers & Company
Contract packaging
Walmart, CVS, and Gopuff: Private Label Heats Up
The trend, which is reshaping how store brands get customers to fill their carts, shows no signs of slowing down.
June 6, 2024
Walmart launched bettergoods, its newest private label brand, in April.
Home
How Today’s Technology Can Enhance Training
Technologies like augmented reality and AI can enhance training and simplify complex tasks to bridge the packaging skills gap.
June 6, 2024
Newer workers may resonate with video content for training, some industry executives suggest.
Beverage
Coca-Cola's Smartwater Launches Aluminum Cans
Learn what new package type will be used for the first time with vapor-distilled water and how it increases the product's sustainability, according to Coca-Cola.
June 6, 2024
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Package design
A drupa Tour with Brand Packaging Designer Uwe Melichar, EPDA
At drupa, PW tagged along as Uwe Melichar, European Brand and Packaging Design Association president, led a select group of brand owners on a personally curated booth tour. Here's what we found out.
June 6, 2024
Uwe Melichar (second from right) of the European Brand and Packaging Design Association, curated the private brand owner tour of drupa for Touchpoint Packaging, a pavilion and topical packaging hub of the show.
Package Design
“3D Print” Embossing on Glass by Digitally Layering Viscous Inks
In a collaboration between printhead supplier Xaar, ink supplier Marabu, and digital printer OEM Kammann, glass bottles get a "3D-printed" embossing effect for tactile features and colors by layering viscous inks, via digital print heads, onto bottles.
June 5, 2024
Ultra-high viscosity ink, applied by ultra-high viscosity printheads on digital printers, stand to impact CPG markets including cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and high-end spirits, as well as afford opportunities for high-end mass customization of packaging.
Recycling
L’Occitane Cosmetics Bottle Uses 100% Enzymatically Recycled Content
European companies collaborate to produce a fully circular, 100% rPET shower oil bottle made from enzymatically recycled materials that reduce CO2 emissions by 57% versus virgin PET.
June 5, 2024
L’Occitane is using PET bottles made entirely from enzymatically recycled PET waste for its Amande shower oil range.
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