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Contract packaging
AI-driven CoPackConnect Platform Matches Brands with External Manufacturers
Developers expect that the new RFQ tool will be a game changer for brands, private labels, and external manufacturers.
January 10, 2025
The AI-driven RFQ platform matches brands with external manufacturing expertise.
Package Design
Red Bull, Chick-fil-A, and Jong Introduce Packaging Designed for User Engagement
ThePackHub
See a few examples of packaging designed to enhance the user experience from Red Bull, Chick-fil-A, and Jong from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
January 10, 2025
Red Bull is reintroducing its 330ml resealable aluminum bottles to Australian retailers after discontinuing the packaging format in 2021.
Packaging line integration
How Technology is Assisting Employees in the Snack Foods Market
Technological tools including virtual reality headsets, sensors, and instructional materials are helping to train snack food producer employees.
January 10, 2025
Snack food producers have intriguing insight on technology's helpful impact on employees.
Recycling
What Circularity Entails for CPGs
CPGCs need not feel that circularity is sending them in circles.
January 10, 2025
Sterling Anthony
Recycling
Community Poll: U.S. Recycling Challenges
What's holding back U.S. recycling rates?
January 9, 2025
Workforce
One-Minute Survey: Workforce Challenges
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January 8, 2025
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel, Returns to Retail
Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.
January 8, 2025
The latest dishwasher pod formulation from Dropps, UltraWash Plus uses its paperboard packaging to communicate product efficacy by depicting a Pyrex-style glass baking dish, often considered to be the toughest to clean with baked-on food. The company says Ultrawash Plus is the first-to-market USDA-certified bio-based multi-chamber dishwasher detergent.
Containers & Closures
Top Articles of 2024, #1: Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project
The #1 most clicked article of 2024: A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react?
January 5, 2025
All small PET bottles in 12 oz, 16.9 oz and 20 oz will be lightweighted from 21 g to 18.5 g for all The Coca-Cola Company’s sparkling brands, Minute Maid Refreshments, and Minute Maid Aguas Frescas in the U.S. and Canada.
Package Design
Top Articles of 2024, #2: 7 Trends Reshaping Gen Z Packaging Design
The #2 most clicked article of 2024: Packaging design is transforming to fit Gen Z tastes. From vibrant explosions of color to embracing imperfections, these seven trends capture the essence of Gen Z's unique aesthetic preferences and values.
January 4, 2025
We heard Hernán Braberman discuss Gen Z-driven packaging design at drupa last month, and it was so revealing that we enlisted him to break it down specifically for the Packaging World audience.
Containers & Closures
Top Articles of 2024, #3: Sprite Gets Naked, for Now
The #3 most clicked article of 2024: Coca Cola strips the labels from its Sprite on-the-go rPET bottles in the company’s first U.K. trial of label-less packaging.
January 3, 2025
In place of a label, the bottle will feature an embossed logo on the front, with product and nutritional information laser-engraved on the back.
Package Design
Top Articles of 2024, #4: Pack Defect Causes 8.2 million-Bag P&G Recall
The #4 most clicked article of 2024: A defect in child-resistant packaging led Procter & Gamble to recall more than 8 million bags of Tide, Gain, Ace, and Ariel laundry detergent packets in the U.S. and Canada.
January 2, 2025
The outer packaging meant to prevent access to the contents can split open near the zipper track, posing a risk of serious injury to children if the laundry detergent packets' contents are ingested, as well as skin or eye injuries.
Package Design
Top Articles of 2024, #5: Pantone's 2024 Color of the Year
The #5 most clicked article of 2024: At a time of turmoil in the world, Pantone selects ‘a compassionate and nurturing shade conveying a heartfelt kindness’ as its 2024 Color of the Year, the 25th in the program’s history.
January 1, 2025
Global color authority Pantone has announced that Pantone13-1023 Peach Fuzz is the Pantone Color of the Year selection for 2024. Photo courtesy of The Development.
Package Design
Top Articles of 2024, #6: Mattel Packaging Error Leads to Recall
The #6 most clicked article of 2024: The company was forced to recall the entire "Wicked" dolls line just before the Holiday season. A printing mistake led consumers to an adult website rather than providing more information on the upcoming film release.
December 31, 2024
Mattel was forced to pull its entire Wicked doll line due to a packaging error just before the Holiday Season.
Package Design
Top Articles of 2024, #7: Hershey's Faces Class Action Suit Over Reese's Packaging
The #7 most clicked article of 2024: The legal challenge is spurred by consumers who claim the packaging doesn’t match the product.
December 30, 2024
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Containers & Closures
Top Articles of 2024, #8: How Baileys Paper-Based Bottle is Made
The #8 most clicked article of 2024: An extraordinary network of inventors, developers, OEMs, and stakeholders emphasize ‘progress over perfection’ as they commercialize a breakthrough bottle.
December 29, 2024
Behind the latest paper bottle by Baileys.
Containers & Closures
Top Articles of 2024, #9: McDonald's Drops Plastic for Four-Flap McFlurry Cup
The #9 most clicked article of 2024: Paper flaps around the paper-based cup's neck will serve as a closure, replacing the plastic lid and reducing single-use plastic to advance McDonald's sustainability goals.
December 27, 2024
Both the Mini and Regular McFlurry will now be served in what stakeholders say is a more environmentally friendly, paper-based, four-flap cup.
Bio-based
Top Articles of 2024, #10: KDP Unveils Plant-based, Compostable Coffee Pod
The #10 most clicked article of 2024: These coffee pods use an alginate-based primary package material with some barrier properties. The system will employ recyclable secondary packaging with additional barrier. Many packaging details remain to be sorted.
December 26, 2024
The plant-based coating doesn’t dissolve into the coffee—it stays intact during the brewing process. So, after the K-Rounds are brewed, consumers will have to dispose of the remaining spent coating. It is expected to be certified compostable.
Recycling
Top Articles of 2024, #11: If Brands Need PCR, Why is Demand for rPET so Soft?
The #11 most clicked article of 2024: Brands made commitments to use more PCR, and rPET is a substrate with lots of packaging applications. So why is it so cheap, and why is demand so soft, especially heading into 2024's 'preform season?'
December 25, 2024
NAPCOR PET bottle collection and recycling rates.
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