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Containers
Reducing Risk for Slack-fill Packaging Lawsuits: Part Two
Last month’s article concluded with this distinction: a defense strategy is reactive. Instead, a proactive approach—with its focus on lawsuit avoidance—should be a component of packaging management.
May 27, 2022
Slack Fill Packaging Lawsuits
Sustainability
Insider Column: Market Challenges Trigger Creative Responses
These tough times are a laboratory for packaging innovation as brands and CPGs look for creative solutions to unprecedented hurdles.
May 26, 2022
Ben Miyares
Sustainability
Fiber-Based Drink Lids Adopted in Swedish Foodservice Chain
Every year, more than 300 billion plastic lids, equivalent to 1.5 million tons of plastic, are produced, and many of them end up as litter in the world’s oceans.
May 26, 2022
Liplid By Liplid
Containers
Veritas Uses On-Pack QR Codes for its Cannabis to Provide Product Transparency
Denver-based cannabis company Veritas adds QR codes to its packaging that enable consumers to find detailed information on the specific cannabis strain and where the product is available for future purchase.
May 25, 2022
Veritas Fine Cannabis packaging QR codes lead back to a strain card on the company’s website that provides even more detailed information not included on the label.
PMMI News
Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame Deadline Extended, Nominate Your Mentor Now
The prestigious Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame has extended its deadline for nominations for the 2022 Inductee Class to Friday, July 1, 2022.
May 24, 2022
Nominate a mentor or other influential packaging pro for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame.
E-commerce/D2C packaging
D2C SIOC Shoes Make Sustainable Statement
Micah Heftman hadn’t heard the acronym SIOC (ships in own container) when he designed a shoebox for his footwear. He just wanted to avoid a ‘box within a box’ experience. Only when he heard about SIOC did he realize there was a name for his pack design.
May 23, 2022
Kengos shoes’ most visually striking design element stems from the whip-stitching that mechanically attaches the sole to the upper without adhesive. That design element is reinforced in the packaging design, which is also entirely mechanical.
Material handling
Data Transitions Packaging to a Futureproof Digital World
Specright offers insights into spec management using a common language at ISTA Forum 2022.
May 23, 2022
Matthew Wright, founder and CEO of Specright, presented on the urgency of transitioning packaging to a digital platform using data.
Plastics/resins
Milk-Bone Rebrand Affirms That ‘Life’s More Fun with a Dog’
Leading dog treats brand Milk-Bone refreshes its look, wrangling 80 dogs in a photo shoot to capture the most tail-wagging, smile-inducing images for its iconic red packaging.
May 19, 2022
The new packaging is being used for 25 SKUs of the brand’s biscuits, chews, treats, and supplements.
Sustainable Packaging
Live from Circularity 22: Grove Collaborative Continues to Push ‘Beyond Plastic’
Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability for Grove, shares how the company’s ambition to be plastic-free is the first step toward a circular economy.
May 18, 2022
(l. to r.) Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability for Grove Collaborative, and Emily Tipaldo, Executive Director of the U.S. Plastics Pact
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Dutch Bakery’s E-Comm Pack Keeps Cakes Cool
E-commerce is hard enough for durable, shelf-stable products. It's even trickier for cakes, etc., that need to maintain a temperature of less than 7°C (45°F) while out for delivery. Here's how a popular Dutch bakery and e-tailer sustainably made it work.
May 18, 2022
A two-side printed paperboard carton cake box delights Taartenwinkel customers upon opening.
Operational Excellence
Innovation Not Keeping Pace With Sustainability Demands
OEMs and CPGs agree that right now, packaging and processing technology hinders any significant sustainable solutions. Consumers and brands want it yesterday, but how?
May 17, 2022
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Operational Excellence
Three Tips for Chief Procurement Officers Navigating Packaging Shortages
Gartner, Inc. provides tactics for chief procurement officers attempting to deal with packaging material shortages amidst supply instability and rising costs.
May 16, 2022
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Operational Excellence
Great Resignation Driving Employee Poaching
It’s a buyer’s market for job seekers as 81,000 left manufacturing from Aug. 2020 through Aug. 2021. Manufacturers are climbing over each other to poach workers to meet increases in production.
May 12, 2022
Labor Decrease
Sustainable Packaging
Kraft Heinz Explores Potential of Paper-Based Ketchup Bottle
The company aims to become the first brand to use Pulpex’s patented recyclable, paper-based bottle technology for a sauce product.
May 12, 2022
Heinz and Pulpex are developing a prototype to test how the patented packaging technology could be used for the Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle and other packaging formats .
Sustainability
Medical Device eIFUs: Hurdles to Overcome
Live from the[PACK]out: Regulations, regional acceptance, and validated packaging configurations all play a role. The challenges aren’t insurmountable but will require efforts from the packaging community.
May 12, 2022
Sustainability – No Longer Just a “Nice to Have”, Speakers from Left: Lindsay Smaron, Samantha Smith, and Kevin Kane with Moderator Jamie Pero-Parker, PhD at thePACKout.
PMMI News
Hackers Shift Focus to Packaging and Processing
Pervasive new technology increases entry points for cyber attacks. Discover cybersecurity solutions at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26; McCormick Place, Chicago).
May 11, 2022
Technology makes manufacturing more efficient, but also creates vulnerabilities.
PMMI News
Consolidation Threatening CPG-OEM Relationships
The shift in the CPG-OEM relationship from transactional to strategic collaboration has hit a snag.
May 11, 2022
Mergers and acquisitions are hampering collaboration.
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
KiiP Tackles Wicked Problems in Package Material Stability
What began as a chat over coffee has led to work on a hypothesis and a white paper with far-reaching potential in saving time and resources in medical device packaging stability testing. Efforts were presented at the[PACK]out's inaugural event in Austin.
May 10, 2022
At the[PACK]out, presenting 'Wicked Stability: Predicting the Aging Degradation of Materials' were speakers (from left): Dan Burgess, Henk Blom, and Rod Patch w/ Moderator Seema Momin.
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