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CPGs strategize on tepid recycling adoption

Packaging World talks with vegan-friendly cosmetics brand Love Beauty and Planet and non-profit Recycle Across America about the solutions and strategies for closing the plastics loop and preventing waste from going into oceans.

November 4, 2018

Packaging in South Africa: a Hall of Fame perspective

Just welcomed into the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame at PACK EXPO International 2018, former World Packaging Organisation President Keith Pearson shines light on Africa’s packaging market.

November 1, 2018

Keith Pearson with his “Class of 2018” award during his induction into the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame Monday, Oct. 15 during PACK EXPO International. He was one of five inductees honored as part of the Hall of Fame’s 45th class.

Consumer packaged goods

Tobacco pushes to the front of the line

A latecomer to FDA’s stable of responsibilities, regulation of tobacco aims to protect the public health, though these efforts are not without controversy.

October 30, 2018

Eric F. Greenberg

Packaging: the strongest link in supply chain management?

Manufacturers acquire materials, convert those materials into finished goods, and get those finished goods to customers.

October 26, 2018

Packaging Supply Chain

E-comm lessons

As U.S. food and beverage brands contort themselves to prepare for a potential e-commerce grocery revolution, it’s worth taking a look at a place where e-comm is hitting on all cylinders.

October 5, 2018

New product accelerator fills industry gap

Michigan State’s new Food Processing and Innovation Center sought to provide small companies the chance to hone and test their products. Now that the facility is a reality, even the biggest food and beverage producers are taking note and taking a number.

October 5, 2018

Bruce Harte was among the group of people to dream up this facility. He was one of the individuals who saw the FPIC through from idea to reality.

Get a handle on hand holes

When the size and/or weight of the product justifies them, hand or access holes are designed into corrugated boxes to facilitate safe manual handling.

October 5, 2018

Corrugated Box Handles

Planning, teamwork: Essentials for this digital age PACK EXPO

Global markets are in flux and PACK EXPO International 2018 is the easiest way to assess competing processing and packaging technologies for these times.

October 5, 2018

How to vouch for products from here or there

This column is being written on the 17th anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001.

October 5, 2018

Cracking open packaging innovation

Some of the best examples of packaging innovation are those that address unarticulated consumer needs by offering greater functionality and enjoyment of existing products.

September 15, 2018

While Chobani’s yogurt hasn’t changed, a new squeezable, resealable pouch opens up new uses for the product.

Sustainable Packaging

Is garbology accurate about packaging?

It almost seems that one can’t talk trash without mentioning packaging.

September 11, 2018

Garbology Packaging

Backstage pass to a redesign

With another PACK EXPO International right around the corner, you might notice a few changes to the pages of Packaging World magazine.

September 4, 2018

Design patents protect

Design patents protect ornamental features that determine how manufactured products look.

September 4, 2018

Think globally, act locally from a packaging perspective

The world of consumer goods continues to change at an increasing pace.

September 4, 2018

Undeclared allergens make foods misbranded and unsafe

If you’ve ever perused the law’s definition of “misbranded” food, you know it has lots of sub-parts, describing essentially every imaginable detail about a food label that could be improperly displayed, missing, inaccurate, or misleading.

September 4, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

A Hall of Famer peers into the future

Soon to be inducted into the PMMI Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame, McCormick’s Michael Okoroafor shares a few insights.

September 4, 2018

Michael Okoroafor

Sensor tech reduces food waste

The USDA estimates that between 30 to 40% of the American food supply is wasted, much of it after passing some sort of expiration date.

August 3, 2018

Matt Reynolds, Editor

The ground has shifted, in a bad way

If anyone asks you in the next few months what the big new legal trend affecting packaging is, I suggest you tell them it’s the “Worldwide Plastics Smackdown.”

August 3, 2018

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