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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.
Workforce
Stäubli Appoints Adrien Brouillard as Executive President of Robotics Division
Stäubli Corporation
The promotion follows Brouillard serving in the role on an interim basis.
September 15, 2025
Staubli Adrien Brouillard Executive President Robotics
Adhesive application
Topo Chico Innovates in Case Gluing and Sealing with Valco Melton’s EcoStitch
At its Monterrey plant, Topo Chico has reduced adhesive consumption by nearly 55% in the hot-melt gluing of boxes for its mineral water bottles, thanks to Valco Melton’s technology.
September 15, 2025
The Monterrey plant is a pioneer in Mexico, being the first in the beverage production sector to use this Valco Melton technology.
Wrapping
Laffy Taffy Unwraps Easier-to-Open Mini Bar Packaging
Long a source of sticky frustration, Laffy Taffy’s wrappers have been reengineered for a clean, one-pull opening, just as sales surge and the brand refreshes its signature jokes.
September 15, 2025
Ferrara has rolled out new Laffy Taffy Mini Bar wrappers designed for a smoother opening experience.
Sustainability
New Research Hub C3PS Tackles Packaging Challenges
At the Packaging Recycling Summit, attendees got a first look at C3PS, a new research hub bringing together universities and industry to develop scalable, sustainable packaging  technologies.
September 15, 2025
Thomas Osip, industry liaison officer for the Center of Plastics, Paper and Hybrid Packaging End-of-Life Solutions (C3PS)
Recycling
Target, Brazilian Pet Foods, and Ahlstrom Design Paper-based Packaging
ThePackHub
See a few examples of paper-based packaging from Target, Brazilian Pet Foods, and Ahlstrom from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
September 14, 2025
The design uses minimal material through unique dielines and a streamlined form, reducing environmental impact while maintaining durability for both retail and transit.
Operational Excellence
Three Challenges Affecting Food Safety Sanitation Operations
Industry professionals provide insight into some of the most notable challenges affecting their sanitation operations.
September 12, 2025
End users note three key hinderances and related concerns to their sanitation operations.
Bio-based
Grove Toilet Cleaner Pods Reduce PVA, Use Compostable Pouch
New toilet bowl cleaner pods from Grove Co. use 38% less PVA and are sold in a certified home-compostable pouch, replacing the brand’s earlier metal tins.
September 12, 2025
The cleaner sachets are packed in a home-compostable pouch that combines FSC paper, cellulose, and a biopolymer film. The compostable zipper is made from PLA.
Adhesive application
Coca-Cola's Topo Chico Innovates in Case Gluing and Sealing
At its Monterrey, Mexico plant, Topo Chico reduced adhesive consumption by nearly 55% in the hot-melt gluing of boxes for its mineral water bottles.
September 11, 2025
The adhesive volume is now electronically controlled with the new equipment using 24V signals to activate the electric valves, instead of adjusting the volume using nozzles and pneumatic pressure.
Containers & Closures
Continuous-thread Closures
C-T closures involve actual twists and turns on the part of the consumer, but brand owners face figurative twists and turns in delivering a positive use experience.
September 11, 2025
Sterling Anthony
Bio-based
Crocs is First to Use Algae-Based Ink in CMYK Packaging
The footwear brand’s Jibbitz shoe-charm packaging is the first commercial project to swap petroleum-based carbon black for an algae-derived pigment for black ink in full-color printing.
September 11, 2025
Living Ink supplied the press release, but the image in the press release is attributed to Crocs.
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Benefits of Right-Sizing and Recyclability of Corrugated Material at Parcel Forum 2025
Packaging stakeholders highlighted the importance of right-sizing packaging in today's market and recycling rates for corrugated material at Parcel Forum 2025 Wednesday in Schaumburg, Ill.
September 10, 2025
CPGs can find benefits in damage prevention, carbon footprint reduction, and consumer satisfaction by right-sizing packaging.
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