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Digital Transformation

Addressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations

Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into practices to address workforce limitations and barriers of potential solutions.

February 7, 2025

Adressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations

The Packaging Workforce: Hiring, Retention, and Training in a Changing Industry

Packaging industry companies are finding challenges in finding, keeping, and training workers to handle increasingly advanced machinery.

February 7, 2025

Around 80% of surveyed packaging industry stakeholders are looking to hire packaging line operators and having trouble doing so.

Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury Switch to Paper Products

See a few examples of paper product innovations from Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

February 7, 2025

The new packaging incorporates 30% more recycled fiber content, minimizing reliance on virgin and bleached materials.

Bagging & Pouching

Video: Coffee Producer Mayorga Adds a Bagger to Meet Surge Demand

Mayorga Organics, a family-owned coffee company built on strong relationships with family-owned coffee growers in Latin America, relies on automation to optimize efficiency.

February 5, 2025

Mayorga uses its newest pouch filling system to produce whole bean and ground coffee in both 2- and 5-lb sizes.

Community Poll: Glass Recycling Challenges

See your peers familiarity with the challenges of glass recycling.

February 5, 2025

Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint

According to a Packaging World survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.

February 5, 2025

Annual Outlook Report - Automation and Robotics

Digital Transformation

The Future of Automation Sees Greater Human and Machine Collaboration

At Universal Robot’s Collaborate 2025 event, A3’s Alex Shikany reviewed the current state of the automation market and provided a glimpse of what to expect in the coming year, and beyond.

February 4, 2025

Alex Shikany, EVP of A3 – Association for Advancing Automation

Redefining Premium in Pet Food & Beverages Through Packaging

As beliefs around what constitutes a ‘premium’ product evolve in the pet food and beverage industries, so too must packaging change to communicate the value of these products.

February 3, 2025

Walmart’s Pure Balance pet food bag uses high-quality photography to convey freshness and natural ingredients. Photo courtesy of Equator Design

Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization

Driven by consumer demand for more sustainable packaging, CPGs turn to new materials such as paper and bio-based/compostable plastic, but higher costs, material complexity, and other limitations may slow adoption.

February 3, 2025

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Digital Transformation

Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?

New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?

January 31, 2025

Packaging Equipment AI Copilot Assistant

Digital Transformation

Solutions to Legacy Equipment and Data Systems Integration

Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into integrating older technology with data systems.

January 31, 2025

Legacy Equipment & Data Systems Photo

Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack Introduce Utilize Bio-Based Materials

See a few examples of bio-based innovations from Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

January 31, 2025

The product decomposes within 12 months when properly disposed of, returning valuable nutrients to the soil.

ECOS and Garrett Brands Find Flexibility and Labor Advantages in RaaS

Representatives from an eco-friendly cleaning product manufacturer and an iconic popcorn brand discuss their experiences with Formic's Robots as a Service (RaaS) and other automation solutions.

January 30, 2025

Formic Standard Industrial Palletizer

Four Trends Shaping Beer and Wine Design in 2025

Learn how etches and imprints, intricate artwork and photography, playful mascots, and other techniques can be used on your beer or wine packaging to make a lasting impression on-shelf.

January 29, 2025

From left: By exsenz on 99designs by Vista; by Sasha999 on 99designs by Vista; and label by nestorson on 99designs by Vista. Photos courtesy of 99designs by Vista.

Community Poll: Utilizing Advanced Recycling

See where your peers stand on the importance of advanced recycling.

January 29, 2025

Contract Packaging

Carmine’s Adopts Accessible Packaging Lid for Pasta Sauces

New York City-based Italian restaurant chain Carmine’s is adopting a lid that makes opening pasta sauce jars easier for a wider range of consumers.

January 29, 2025

Carmine's Sauce Jars With EEASY Lids

Italian Wineries Go Digital to Meet EU Ingredient Regulation

Italian wine producers in the Lunelli Group are using Markem-Imaje QR technology to digitally update ingredient and nutritional information for each batch of wine.

January 28, 2025

Bisol1542 and Jeio now include QR codes on their product labels for updated ingredient and nutritional information.

Compostable Seafood Shipper Insulation Supports Brand’s Mission

D2C business Wild Alaskan Company ships its sustainably harvested, wild seafood using bio-based foam insulation that is home and industrially compostable as well as water soluble.

January 27, 2025

Green Cell Foam cornstarch-based insulation panels keep Wild Alaskan’s shipments of sustainably harvested, wild seafood frozen for up to 72 hrs. Image courtesy of Wild Alaskan.

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