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Specialty Personal Care Brands Shift from Plastic to Aluminum Packs
Specialty shampoo, soap, and conditioner brands are embracing shatter-proof, recyclable aluminum packaging in a bid to attract sustainability-minded consumers with less price sensitivity.
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Pregis Opens Two Texas Manufacturing Facilities
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Multi-Surface Floor Marking Tape
Package Design
Morton Salt’s Packaging-Based AR Experiences Seek to Erase Food Waste
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WPO Announces Date for WorldStar 2021 Awards Virtual Ceremony
Sustainability
Organic Baby Shampoo & Conditioner Brand is Latest of its Ilk to Go All-In for Aluminum
Nature’s Baby Organics is another recent entry in the shift away from plastic, and toward aluminum, for packaging of personal care and bath products, particularly specialty products with elements like vegan, organic, or cruelty-free.
Flexible packaging
Backyard Compostable for Loose-Leaf Tea
Arbor Teas is an online retailer of organic loose-leaf tea based in Ann Arbor, Mich. that has been undergoing iterative change toward greater sustainability for the past decade.
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New Syntegon cartoner Sigpack TTMD with integrated Delta robots
Carton loading by seamlessly integrated Delta robots. The camera-based vision control system detects products on the infeed belt. The delta robots then pick single or multiple products arriving in random order and place them in cartons.
Package Design
As Digitally Printed Cans Develop, Craft Brewers Still Love Labels
The pandemic made craft brewers focus on retail packaging as kegs for foodservice, restaurants, and taprooms were diminished, and cans keep gaining momentum. In this 'Take Five with Packaging World' video, we’ll look at how those cans are decorated.
E-commerce
The Challenge of Package Design for Liquids in E-commerce
The e-commerce or direct-to-consumer supply chain is particularly challenging for liquid consumer packaged goods. A collaborative effort is working to solve this problem.
Supplier News
Jokey’s New Production Facility in Spain Operational
Jokey Treplás moved into its new production facility where it will operate in the future under the name Jokey Iberica.
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Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots
Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.
Sustainability
Transparent PP Yogurt Cup with Reverse-Printed Paperboard Exterior is Fully Recyclable
Trimona Bulgarian Yogurt chose a yogurt container with an outer paperboard wrapper, easily removed for recycling, and an inner transparent PP cup. Paperboard is reverse printed for an impactful consumer communication experience inside the pack.
Materials & containers
Acrylic Packaging Tape
Shurtape’s Shurtape®brand AP 201 Colors production grade acrylic packaging tape, available in in blue, green, red, yellow, and orange, is designed to easily identifying sealed packaged contents.
Materials & containers
Craft Brew—Bag-In-Box
Primitive Beer, a small blending facility and taproom in Longmont, Colo., is putting its lambic-style ales in 1.5- and 5-L bag-in-box formats.
Coding, printing & labeling
Mexico Labeling Regulations: Meeting the Challenge
Nearly six months after the enaction of NOM-051 about front-of-package labeling for foods and non-alcoholic beverages, a webinar of Enlace EXPO PACK 2021 brought companies up to date on the progress made and the challenges of its implementation.
Sustainability
15 Sustainable Packaging Innovations to Watch
New sustainable packages, including those made from oat hulls and cocoa bean byproduct, refillable and reusable packaging for cosmetics, hand sanitizer, and deodorant, and other innovations, are the focus of webinar from ThePackHub.
Sustainability
A Nestle First in Recycled Content
Nestle and a coalition of companies have collaborated to produce what they are calling Australia’s first flexible film food wrapper made with recycled content.
Flexible packaging
Maxwell House Says Compostable Coffee Pods: ‘Good to the Last Drop. And Long After.’
Bringing circularity to a traditionally wasteful package, TC Transcontinental Packaging took a Gold Award in Sustainability for its 100% industrially compostable single-serve coffee pod.
Flexible packaging
Colorful Seal Assurance Supports EU MDR for Device Packaging
The FPA awarded PAXXUS a Gold Award in Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging for its Chameleon for Tyvek.
Supplier News
Steven Voorhees Receives Paperboard Packaging Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The Paperboard Packaging Council selected Steven C. Voorhees, former CEO of WestRock, as the recipient of its 2021 Robert T. Gair Award.
Sustainability
Schick Disposable Razors Take Sustainable Turn, Packaging Shifts to Match
Packaging for the Schick Xtreme 3 Disposable Razor is a thermoformed BOPP tray with film lidding. Now, consumers can choose the same razor design but now with a recycled (and recyclable) PP handle in a recyclable kraft-style paperboard PCR carton.
Package Design
Packaging for ShopRite Own-Brand Paperbird Reflects Free-as-a-Bird Optimism
Protective/transport packaging
A Chain of Changes
In this column, we will check in with several topics, and as it happens, the topics flow from one to the next like a chain of crucial information for packagers.
Supplier News
Metsä Board Opens Excellence Centre in Finland
New center offers cutting-edge technology for R&D, packaging design, and paperboard and packaging innovation and provides a collaborative platform for customers and technology partners globally.
Sustainability
Bio-based Potato Starches Replace Bag’s LLDPE Sealant Layer
In the new lamination, 16% of the complete structure, a sealant layer formerly composed of LLDPE, has been replaced with plant-based material that in fact is a byproduct of the French fries the company produces.
Materials & containers
Recyclable Trays for Meat and Cheese Applications
PaperSeal Slice and PaperSeal recyclable, barrier-lined, paperboard trays from Graphic Packaging offer retailers a recyclable alternative to plastic thermoformed trays for sliced meats and cheeses.