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Care Kits Supplement Telehealth for Medicare Patients and More
57% of Americans with chronic conditions delayed healthcare and experienced a gap in care due to COVID-19, per a recent study. Aetna and other companies are shipping kits with specially curated products to offer self-care or supplement telehealth visits.
Package Design
P&G Designs Packaging for the Visually Impaired
Sustainability
Love Beauty and Planet Debuts Reusable Aluminum Bottle
Sustainability
Tea Bag-Style Coffee Pack is ‘Steeped’ in Sustainability
Package Design
Taking the Fifth (Panel): Create an Invitation to Engage
Materials & containers
Compostable Coffee Pod Lidding Film
C-P Flexible Packaging launches BPI-certified compostable coffee pod lidding film designed for the latest single-serve coffee makers.
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2021 Healthcare Packaging Design Gallery
This year’s gallery featured many calming and minimalist aesthetics, signifying a consumer looking for relief at home and work—outside of the clinical setting.
Sponsored
Unique FlipGuard™ dispensing closure delivers branding and safety
Consumers want secure, convenient and smooth dispensing for sauces, dressings and condiments. Berry's new FlipGuard flip-top dispenser's unique design includes a tamper-evident strip and more.
Materials & containers
Flip-top Carton
ACMA launches Ecoshell a recycleable paper-based carton designed for the confectionery industry but is applicable to any compatible product.
Take5
Branding Lessons from Vital Farms’ Fantastic Egg Carton
Packaging is your product’s greatest salesperson. On today's Take Five video, see how ethical food company Vital Farms uses attention-grabbing graphics, sustainable packaging materials, and clever consumer communication tools to elevate its egg packaging.
Workforce
Middle Schoolers Take on Big Brand Packaging Projects
Challenged to invent packaging systems for the likes of Apple and Ford, these middle schoolers impressed both in the pack designs themselves, and their ability to communicate their reasoning.
Sponsored
Unique FlipGuard™ dispensing closure delivers branding and safety
Consumers want secure, convenient and smooth dispensing for sauces, dressings and condiments. Berry's new FlipGuard flip-top dispenser's unique design includes a tamper-evident strip and more.
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Amcor: Enhanced Heat Seal Coating for Healthcare
ACT2100TM to provide enhanced performance for healthcare applications ; available worldwide to offer enhanced business continuity and shorter supply chains.
Materials & containers
Ink for CIJ Printers
Diagraph offers the 1088 Yellow Bottling Pigmented Ink for the Linx 89xx Series printers designed for use in harsh manufacturing environments.
Supplier News
C.O.I.M. S.p.A. Acquires Neoflex SL
C.O.I.M. S.p.A., an Italian multinational company, acquired a controlling interest in Spain-based Neoflex SL.
Package Design
Budweiser Busts out Patriotic Cans for ‘Historic Summer’
Beer giant kicks off the summer season with three limited-edition can designs that celebrate American freedom, with a portion of sales being donated to non-profit Folds of Honor.
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Rapid-Response Packaging Development Aids Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines and Test Kits
Trays, inserts, tubs, and lids were developed in mere days, compared to the traditional weeks or months. The companies had to navigate shortages in resin supply due to COVID-19 and Texas storms.
Sustainability
New Nivea Jars are Made from Bio-based Forestry Byproduct
Beiersdorf debuts polypropylene jars for its Nivea face cream that are made from tall oil—a byproduct of the forestry industry—to create petroleum-free, certified renewable plastic packaging.
Sustainability
Ocean Spray Craisins Join Recyclable, Recoverable March with In-Store Drop-Off Ready Pouch
The packaging solution designed for Ocean Spray Craisins® dried cranberries will be available in both roll stock and pre-made stand-up-pouch formats, using a specialty high-performance polyethylene (PE).
Package Design
Short But Important New Allergen Law
Congress made a significant changes to the law, but it’s two pages long.
Coding, printing & labeling
Digital Enhancement of Folding Cartons
Scodix, the world’s leading provider of digital enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, recently announced that Germany S.A.C.I.A.G has installed a Scodix Ultra Digital Enhancement Press.
Package Design
Inclusive Packaging
The Unilever brand Degree is introducing a new deodorant product line named Degree Inclusion that seems important to me, and I’ll tell you why.
Supplier News
4sight Inc. Joins Product Ventures
4sight Inc. joins Product Ventures creating a premier structural packaging innovation agency. Stuart Leslie, Founder of 4sight Inc., joins Product Ventures as the new VP of Industrial Design.
Materials & containers
Hot Shot Insect Killer Gets Custom Actuator
A custom actuator designed specifically for Spectrum Brands’ Home & Garden business unit is a key feature on the firm’s Hot Shot® Ant, Roach & Spider Killer line.
Materials & containers
Squeeze Tube Product Dispenser
SOPO Dispenser Corp. offers a stick-on, peel-off squeeze tube personal care product dispenser designed to stick on the wall or be used as a traditional countertop bottle.
Beverage
Business is Booming for On the Rocks Ready-to-Drink Cocktail Brand
Spirits-based is one of the fastest growing segments of the US ready-to-drink market, and the OTR premium RTD brand doubled its sales in the first half of 2020.
Coding, printing & labeling
Clustered Print Heads for Digital Printing
In 2017 a Bobst division called Mouvent unveiled a new digital label press that is differentiated primarily by its use of print head clusters.
