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Sustainable Packaging

Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) Announces 2023 Recycling Committee Executive Board

Plastics Industry Association

The Recycling Committee brings equipment makers, brand owners, processors, and material suppliers together to align their collective efforts to put recycling at the forefront of their business priorities.

January 31, 2023

Weighing/combination scales

Mettler-Toledo Offers Personalized Virtual Factory Tours to Help Address Manufacturing Issues

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection

Mettler-Toledo launches two new virtual factory tours, helping pharmaceutical and biopharma manufacturers learn more about product inspection solutions and how to enhance their quality assurance along their production lines.

January 31, 2023

Mt Pharma Factory Tour

Formost Fuji Announces New Location for Its Headquarters, Manufacturing Plant

Formost Fuji Corporation

Formost Fuji Corp. purchased a 65,000 sq ft building in Everett, Wash. to expand its manufacturing and assembly floor as well as provide a modern, larger office space for the engineering, sales, service, accounting, and administration departments.

January 31, 2023

New Formost Fuji Building Aerial

Biodegradable PHA Water Bottles Make Retail Debut

Erewhon, the Los Angeles premium organic grocer, announced a partnership with Cove, a California-based material innovation company, making it the first retailer of Cove’s fully biodegradable water bottles.

January 30, 2023

Column: Paper Pragmatism as Aussie Candy Bars Switch to Fiber-Based Packs

Bob Lilienfeld, packaging consultant and executive director of the Sustainable Packaging Research, Information, and Networking Group, and I had a brief Linked-In exchange that led to a discussion on what constitutes success for paper pack formats.

January 30, 2023

Hennepin Technical College Awarded Packaging World, PMMI Scholarship

Five students at the Automation Robotics Engineering Technology program at Hennepin Technical College in Minnesota will split the $5,000 Future Leaders in Packaging Scholarship from Packaging World and PMMI.

January 30, 2023

The Automation Robotics Engineering Technology program at Hennepin Technical College program is a stand-alone program that develops maintenance technicians.

Sustainable Protective Packaging Wrap

Storopack RENATURE® packaging wrap is made from starch derived from vegetable plants and is available premade in perforated rolls at both 12 in. and 24 ft. length intervals or as individual sheets.

January 30, 2023

Storopack Product Launch Renature Wrap En Us 4

Protective/transport packaging

Paper-thin Smart Label Tracks Location, Temperature, and Shock

With high value placed on traceability and brand protection, this ultra-thin label is designed to ‘snip and ship’ to track goods—from pallets to individual shipments—with near real-time positioning.

January 30, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé, Montbest, and Royal Ice Cream Develop Recyclable and Compostable Packaging Innovations

See a few examples of recyclable and compostable packaging innovations from Nestlé, Montbest, and Royal Ice Cream from ThePackHub’s December Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

January 29, 2023

Nestlé's Neo coffee machine uses compostable pods.

Controls & Machine Components

Innovative New Controls at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in controls.

January 28, 2023

Photo 1—Beckhoff XTS

Innovative New Robotics at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in robotics.

January 28, 2023

Photo 1—Beckhoff/Atro

Sustainable Packaging

Innovative New Sustainable Packaging at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovations. Here's what they found in sustainable packaging.

January 28, 2023

Innovative New Food Processing & Packaging at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in food processing and packaging.

January 28, 2023

Photo 1—Claranor

Innovative New Pharmaceutical Packaging at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in pharmaceutical packaging.

January 28, 2023

Photo 1—gronigner

Innovative New Machinery at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in machinery.

January 28, 2023

Photo 1—Accraply

PACK EXPO International 2022 Innovations Report

Back after four years, PACK EXPO International convened more than 44,000 attendees during its Oct. 23-26 run at Chicago’s McCormick Place, thus surpassing the 2018 event.

January 28, 2023

Coke Europe Adopts Tethered HDPE Closure, Follows EU Directive

A new tethered closure on Coca-Cola bottles makes the closure less likely to be littered, and more likely to be recycled. The Proxima tethered closure format recently won a Technology Excellence Award for Sustainability from PMMI at PACK EXPO.

January 27, 2023

Berry’s closure for Coca-Cola is based on its patented CompactFlip hinge solution. It is the first to be used in conjunction with the new lightweight 26-mm GME30.40 neck, developed by the Cetie Single-Use Plastics Group.

Flexible packaging

KM Packaging Opens Business Entity in Australia

KM Packaging Services Ltd.

KM Packaging established KM Packaging Services ANZ Pty Ltd in Sydney, New South Wales.

January 27, 2023