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Flexible packaging

Sustainable Urn-liner for Beverage Dispensers

Liquibox’s sustainable urn-liner is designed for iced tea and coffee beverage dispensers. It is comprised of an all-PE bag and adapter with a removable TPE tube that can easily be separated from the bag's adapter so the mono-material bag can be recycled.

March 6, 2023

Liquibox Rr Urn Liner Newsroom

Identify When to Bring Human Factors Into Projects

A Roche human factors engineer and psychologist by training talks about projects that benefit from human factors input, the patient-centricity of simplified manufacturing, and why raising the bar above regulatory requirements shouldn’t be a bad thing.

March 6, 2023

A patient with a given disease state may have physical impairments—including comorbidities—that affect how they interact with a product and package.

Sustainable Packaging

Compostable Packaging Innovations from Laird Superfood, The Good Snack Company, and Jubiles

See a few examples of compostable packaging innovations from Laird Superfood, The Good Snack Company, and Jubiles from ThePackHub’s February Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

March 6, 2023

Laird Superfood's K-Cups compostable coffee pods.

Multipacks/handles/carriers

Graphic Packaging Named One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2023

Graphic Packaging International

Graphic Packaging International’s passion for innovation lead to the fiber-based consumer packaging leader’s being on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

March 6, 2023

Operational Excellence

Top 5 Robot Trends for 2023

The International Federation of Robotics identifies five trends that will shape automation and robotics in the coming year.

March 6, 2023

Bi Robotics Web

E Tech Group

March 6, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Opinion: Do We Practice What We Preach?

Have you ever looked into the trash bin at a sustainable packaging conference? Prepare to be disappointed when you do.

March 3, 2023

A real image of a trash bin at a sustainable packaging conference.

Eco-Products Earns Industry First for Compostable Packaging

Eco-Products Inc.

Eco-Products’ Vanguard clamshell is the first molded fiber item made with no-added PFAS to be approved by the Compost Manufacturing Alliance.

March 3, 2023

Vanguard Clamshell

PACK EXPO and Anuga FoodTec renew strategic partnership to promote packaging and processing solutions globally

PACK EXPO and Anuga FoodTec will renew their strategic partnership to jointly promote and expand their events through 2024.

March 3, 2023

PMMI and Koelnmesse have renewed their partnership through 2024.

Paper Packaging Expands to Reckitt’s Dishwasher Tablets

Reckitt develops a paper-based pouch for its Finish dishwasher tablets that replaces 75% of plastic with responsibly sourced paper while maintaining barrier properties to protect against moisture.

March 3, 2023

Introduced in Carrefour retail stores in France in the fall of last year, the paper-based pouch is the culmination of a multi-step process by Reckitt to ‘achieve the ultimate pack in terms of sustainability.’

Digital Printing

Alwan Color Expertise Signs ColorConsulting as a Distributor for North America

Alwan Color Expertise

ColorConsulting USA will bring experience in commercial print as well as packaging, label, and specialty print segments.

March 3, 2023

Carlo Carnelli, CEO of Color Consulting srl (left) and Elie Khoury, president of Alwan Color Expertise SAS.

Alwan Color Expertise

March 3, 2023

ColorConsulting USA

March 3, 2023

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Canning Line Upgrade Keeps Franchisees Fed

Voodoo Brewing Co.’s unique franchise model promises exponential growth. Packaging operations needed an automated shot in the arm to keep up.

March 3, 2023

Brightstock cans are depalletized overhead on a high-trim Ska Can-i-Bus, then single-filed and lowered through a twist rinser on the way to the filler and seamer.

H.B. Fuller Co. Joins RecyClass

H.B. Fuller joined RecyClass, a comprehensive cross-industry initiative open to companies actively looking to improve the circularity of plastic packaging and contribute toward harmonization of recyclability and recycled content practices across Europe.

March 2, 2023

ProBrew

March 2, 2023

Romanow Container

March 2, 2023

Flexible packaging

Charter Next Generation, Revolution Collaborate to Bring PCR to Food, Flexible Packaging Applications

Charter Next Generation

Charter Next Generation and Revolution Sustainable Solutions are collaborating to drive market adoption of commercially available food-grade LLDPE post-consumer resins for food and flexible packaging applications.

March 2, 2023