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Making a green case for e-comm
E-commerce and sustainability have frequently been depicted as oppositional forces. But Grove Collaborative specifically courts the most sustainability-conscious consumers while selling exclusively through e-commerce. Here’s how John DeVierno, Head of Community Happiness at Grove, walks that tightrope.
March 7, 2019
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Loop has retail roots
Loop reusable packaging system stands to make a disruptive splash that will ripple across packaging, but it could also lead to a package design renaissance.
March 7, 2019
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Packaging addresses a new era of retail
Channel proliferation, star ratings, increased supply chain complexity, robot warehouses, and dimensional weight are a few of many e-commerce-related terms that rose to the forefront of discussion throughout 2018.
March 6, 2019
Digital Transformation
AR tool aids machine maintenance
Augmented reality concepts bring electrical schematics to the operators' fingers by scanning a bar code with a tablet.
February 25, 2019
Contract Packaging
Live at CPA: Contract packagers must offer (and advertise) reverse logistics capabilities
Dave Mabon of Ongoing Value thinks the many contract packagers that are capable of reverse logistics services, often simply by virtue of their software, are leaving money on the table by not advertising it as part of their value proposition.
February 22, 2019
Workforce
Live at CPA: Workforce tactics in a tight labor market
Tom Landry, Allegiance Staffing, illustrates simple but effective tactics to get more throughput out of your workforce, limit overstaffing, and reduce overtime.
February 22, 2019
Contract Packaging
Live at CPA: Address differences between generations in your marketing
Generations are formed by economic, technological, and historical events that happen during formative years, and they create like-thinking cohorts. Awareness of the differences and similarities between them can inform how narrowly (or widely) you target with packaging design and messaging.
February 21, 2019
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FDA supplements its efforts
One of FDA’s goals is to see to it that consumers can trust dietary supplements. Its recent actions against companies making false claims is one step in that direction.
February 19, 2019
Sustainable Packaging
Plasma gasification closes the loop (on sustainability)
The traditional approach of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ needs to be replaced with a new paradigm focused on converting terminal packaging waste into recovered products and energy.
February 11, 2019
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To reduce waste, don’t ban it; make it more valuable, collectable
Bottled water is facing a crisis. So says The Wall Street Journal in a front page article on December 13.
February 5, 2019
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‘Meat’ the regulators who tackle the tough questions
Today I want to talk about how federal regulators do their jobs.
February 5, 2019
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Efficient rPET
With post-consumer plastic processing, sheet extrusion, thermoforming, and injection blow-molding functions all under one roof, this finished rPET container provider is creating efficiencies and quality control that will allow it to compete with virgin.
January 30, 2019
Prepared Foods
Adapting to new retail realities
Robby Martin, Senior Engineering Project Manager for Bush Brothers & Company, discusses how the 110-year-old company is learning to become comfortable with a lower level of certainty as it innovates to meet changing consumer purchasing trends.
January 29, 2019
Sustainability
The case for rPET wine bottles
Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.
January 26, 2019
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Shutdown starts up thought
Americans could think hard for the first time about the importance of various government functions when they lose non-essential activities.
January 22, 2019
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Packaging empowers grocery retailers
The retail grocery industry uses packaging for power and profitability.
January 16, 2019
E-commerce
P&G Eco-Box irks bloggers
This just in from the department of no good deed goes unpunished.
January 9, 2019
Beverage
Craft brewing—a view from British Columbia
Eli Gershkovitch, owner of Steamworks Brewery in Burnaby, British Columbia, talks about craft brewing and automation.
January 9, 2019
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