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Taking Your First Steps in Sustainability
‘If your company is not thinking about sustainability, it is likely that your next customer is, so you need to be prepared.’
August 1, 2024
Getting Started in Sustainability
Sustainability
STUDY: The Hidden Costs of Glass and Rethinking Sustainable Packaging
A recent report suggests that glass, often perceived as the most sustainable packaging, is among the least eco-friendly due to its high energy demands in production and recycling.
August 1, 2024
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Sustainable Packaging
KFC Pledges to Eliminate Non-Recoverable/Non-Reusable Plastic Packaging
The fast-food restaurant aims to eliminate non-recoverable or non-reusable plastic packaging by 2025, partnering with suppliers and franchisees to implement sustainable alternatives globally.
July 31, 2024
Kfc Announces Global Pledge To Eliminate Non Recoverable Or Non Reusable Plastic Based Packaging By 2025
Recycling
PepsiCo’s Sunbites Bag Uses 50% Chemically Recycled Content
Available in the U.K. and Ireland, the bag is the result of a collaboration of multiple supply chain partners and helps PepsiCo close the loop between plastic and recycled content.
July 31, 2024
A new snack bag for PepsiCo Europe’s Walkers Sunbites chip brand in the U.K. and Ireland is made from 50% recycled content from chemical recycling technology.
Controls & Machine Components
Future-Proof Controls are Key when Custom Equipment Goes Standard
Custom lip balm packaging equipment from Lehnen was a big hit as it filled a previously unseen market need between entry-level and high-volume production. They decided to sell more, but to standardize the ProFill SF, it needed future-proof controls.
July 30, 2024
Lehnen leveraged the CP3918 multi-touch Control Panel to provide the ProFill system with an elegant and user-friendly operator interface.
Packaging line integration
What Mexico’s CPGs Want in Their Packaging Machinery Investments
Mexican CPG companies consider several aspects of price, post-sale service, and flexibility when making packaging machinery purchasing decisions.
July 29, 2024
Surveyed CPGs say price is the top priority in purchasing decisions, but delivery times and after-sale services also play a significant role.
Recycling
Souvenir Stadium Cups Use 50% rPP from Purification
Churchill Container tests the viability of incorporating polypropylene recycled through a purification process into its reusable souvenir cups for stadiums and entertainment venues.
July 29, 2024
Churchill Container’s Erik Johnson holds one of the cups made from 50% recycled content from PP purification along with a container of PureFive resin.
Cartoning
Massman Companies Celebrates Grand Opening of New Facility
Over 200 invited guests made their way to the new Alexandria, Minnesota facility for a ribbon cutting and open house.
July 26, 2024
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Robotics
Aligning Industry and Education for a Skilled Workforce
From machine builder FANUC to educational institutions nationwide, manufacturing stakeholders are finding early exposure and accessible training are vital to a healthy workforce.
July 26, 2024
Industry exposure at key milestones like high school can help to boost the next generation's interest in manufacturing.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Mary Kay Hits the Sweet Spot on Speed with Mascara Packaging Line
To boost mascara and other tube production at Mary Kay’s Lewisville, Texas facility, it turned out that intermediate speeds and intermittent motion were the right mix of speed, sophistication, and throughput.
July 26, 2024
Richard Talbot (left) of Equip-Pak with Mary Kay's George Bode (center) and Brandon Polyniak (right).
Recycling
Cadbury Uses Certified-Circular BOPP for Chocolate Bars
Cadbury Australia uses chemically recycled content produced through pyrolysis for 500 million of its chocolate bar wraps.
July 26, 2024
Cadbury will be using 1,000 metric tons of certified circular BOPP leveraging ExxonMobil’s Exxtend technology to package approximately 500 million family-sized Dairy Milk Chocolate blocks.
Recycling
Keeping Up with Your Peers on Sustainable Packaging
Learn how you compare to other CPG companies in your sustainable packaging focus.
July 25, 2024
Case/Tray Packing
Sugar Producer Emphasizes Flexibility in End-of-Line Solution
British Sugar replaces a 38-year-old end-of-line system with two tray packers and seven automatic palletizers with robotic layer preparation to handle a wide array of product formats and sizes.
July 25, 2024
British Sugar’s main product is granulated sugar, shown here in retail bags packed in a retail-ready tray-and-lid package.
Controls & machine components
Building a Modular Machine Visualization Solution
Mespack innovated and modularized to best meet customer needs, including an equally flexible Emerson Movicon.NExT HMI/SCADA to standardize their products and support future advancements.
July 24, 2024
Figure 1: An HMI is a vital and highly visible way for operators to interact, so it must provide clear visualization, extensive connectivity, and scalable design flexibility.
Recycling
Aldi, Paulig, and Scan Sverige Introduce Recyclable Packaging Innovations
ThePackHub
See a few examples of recyclable packaging innovations from Aldi, Paulig, and Scan Sverige from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
July 24, 2024
Aldi plans to eliminate over 10 metric tons of non-recyclable packaging annually by switching to recyclable wrappers for two of its own-label butters.
Bagging & Pouching
Stonyfield is First with All-PE Spouted Pouch
The package, for Stonyfield’s YoBaby refrigerated yogurt, is a mono-material PE structure with PE cap that is recycle-ready per APR design guidelines when the infrastructure becomes available.
July 23, 2024
Stonyfield has become the first to use the CHEERCircle all-polyethylene spouted pouch.
Digital Transformation
The Role of AI in Human Factors
Are we blocking innovation by not accepting AI? We talk with Louisa Harvey about how embracing AI in the right way might shape how devices and packaging can be better targeted to patients.
July 22, 2024
Medical device packaging
Digital Transformation
Packaging Predictions from Years Past Prove True Today
Over the years, PW columnists have gone out on limbs, some sturdier than others, to make bold predictions on packaging trends. Their accuracy and hit rate is worth noting.
July 19, 2024
Pat Reynolds (left) and Benny Landa (right) discussed nanographic digital printing in 2013, right before the first commercialization of the tech. Now, more than 60 machines are in market.
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