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Sustainable Packaging
Scientists Develop 'Magnet' to Recover Ocean Microplastics
University of Kentucky researchers find eco-friendly NADES to be key to water cleanliness and ocean plastic recycling.
February 13, 2024
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Sustainable Packaging
Packaging Material Recyclability Quiz
The third and final quiz in our series. Test your recycling smarts and watch companion video explanations from our friends at LRS. You can even tour at the facility at the end of the quiz.
February 12, 2024
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Sustainable Packaging
Amazon, Bacardi, and Nestlé Introduce Sustainable Packaging Innovations
ThePackHub
See a few examples of sustainable packaging innovations by Amazon Sweden, Bacardi, and Nestlé Brazil from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
February 12, 2024
Amazon's SIOC initiative encourages selling partners to use easily recyclable and ready-to-ship packaging.
Bagging & Pouching
Vapor Transmission Rates in Barrier Flexible Packaging
Water vapor transfer rate testing is complex, time-consuming, not always repeatable, and challenging to interpret. But it's critical none the less.
February 12, 2024
Sterling Anthony, CPP
Digital Transformation
Cybersecurity Concerns Hinder Investment in Remote Services Technology
End users and OEMs are expressing cybersecurity concerns with remote access technology, but new methods of remote access delivery might ease worries.
February 9, 2024
About 77% of surveyed end-users say malware is a top concern for remote services technology.
Workforce
Column: Secret Synergies Between Packaging and Entertainment
Where else but the characteristically multi-disciplinary field of packaging can skills gleaned hosting pub trivia make an impact on the design and engineering behind the look and feel of a product you see on the shelf?
February 9, 2024
Pub trivia hosts learn a lot about how people think by reading through contestants wildly disparate answers to seemingly simple questions. Chris O'Clair parlays that into packaging design.
Flexibles
Protect Your Sterile Barrier System Rollstock
Much attention is given to packages as they protect a product from end-of-line to the patient. But are you correctly handling your sterile barrier inventory prior to packaging?
February 8, 2024
From left: Henk Blom, PAXXUS; Todd McDonald, Technipaq; and Nick Packet, DuPont™ Tyvek® Healthcare Packaging.
Sustainable Packaging
‘Historic’ COP28 Summit Foresees End of Fossil Fuel Era
A rare consensus of opinion at the event is being applauded, criticized, and dismissed by observers at every point on the climate change scale. That consensus was reached at all was still a surprise for most.
February 8, 2024
COP28 Agreement Signals “Beginning of the End” of the Fossil Fuel Era
Sustainable Packaging
Unwrapping the Complexity of PFAS in Packaging
As evidence of the harmful health and environmental effects of PFAS grows, companies need to make informed decisions to limit the substances’ presence in their operations.
February 7, 2024
One of the primary uses of PFAS is as a grease barrier in food packaging.
Operational Excellence
The Long Reach of FDA Accusations
Regulators don't only pick on the biggest companies. In a world of complicated chains of commerce involving multiple actors making and moving and bringing packaged products to market, no link of the supply chain is entirely safe from scrutiny.
February 7, 2024
Eric F. Greenberg
Bio-based
Food Hub Adopts Compostable Packaging for Circular System
Organic food delivery service Fresh Harvest supplements its reusable packaging with new compostable produce film that is also used to fertilize its crops at its end of life.
February 7, 2024
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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Indiana Winery Upgrades Bottling, Nearly Doubles Capacity
Faced with an increase in demand driven partly by the pandemic, Oliver Winery now routinely fills 750-mL glass bottles at 12,000 bph as opposed to the 7,000 done formerly.
February 6, 2024
The installation of this automatic decaser brought numerous ergonomic advantages to the winery’s operation.
Sustainable Packaging
Desert Essence, Neighbourhood Coffee Company, and Albert Heijn Introduce Bio-Based Packaging Innovations
ThePackHub
See a few examples of bio-based packaging innovations from Desert Essence, Neighbourhood Coffee Company, and Albert Heijn from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
February 6, 2024
Desert Essence's compostable board tubes use a vegetable-derived, oil-resistant liner to keep the product intact.
Sustainability
WM Doubles Down on Recycling: A Conversation with VP Brent Bell
WM just announced a billion-dollar investment in recycling infrastructure. We sat down with Brent Bell, VP of recycling, to see how the money will be spent (hint: AI optical sorters and new facilities), and what it means for pack design and PCR supply.
February 2, 2024
Haulers feed the tipping floor at WM's new Houston West Side material recovery facility (MRF).
Sustainable Packaging
Do You Know Packaging Material Recyclability?
Quiz 2 of 3. Test your recycling smarts with this short quiz. Each answer has a video explanation from our friends at LRS, with a video facility tour at the end!
February 2, 2024
Widely recyclable means that more than 60% of U.S. households can toss these materials into their curbside bin.
Operational Excellence
Cost Brings Hesitancy to Adopt Remote Services and Monitoring
Most end users hesitate to invest in retrofitting older machinery as they consider remote services and monitoring.
February 1, 2024
Retrofitting remote services is cheaper than purchasing new machinery, but cost of service is still the technology's top drawback for end-users.
Sustainable Packaging
Canadian Grocers Join Reusable Food-Packaging Pilot
First-of-its-kind reuse program, designed with a consumer-centric lens to eliminate single-use plastics, combines grocer and government forces into Canada’s largest collaborative reuse pilot program.
February 1, 2024
Partnership to result in widespread application of reusable container system across Canada.
Bakery/Snack
Castania Redesigns Nut Packaging to Prep for Expansion
Castania’s redesigned nut packaging plays on the brand's history and sets it apart from global competitors in anticipation of a market expansion.
January 31, 2024
Castania's redesigned nut packaging features copper coloring as a nod to the brand's copper roasting drums.
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