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Morton Salt’s Packaging-Based AR Experiences Seek to Erase Food Waste
Nine AR vignettes accessible through a QR code on Morton Salt’s culinary salt packaging prompts users to visit each scene, get tips, and collect recipes that use commonly wasted food items.
Supplier Submitted
WPO Announces Date for WorldStar 2021 Awards Virtual Ceremony
Package Design
Augmented Reality Packaging Innovations for CPGs, Beer and Wine Industry
Package Design
As Digitally Printed Cans Develop, Craft Brewers Still Love Labels
E-commerce
The Challenge of Package Design for Liquids in E-commerce
Home
CANnabis or CAN’Tabis: Where is Cannabis Heading Amid New Administration?
Healthcare Packaging's director of editorial content talks new directions for cannabis regulation, packaging updates, consumer behavior, and more.
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
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.
Package Design
Packaging for ShopRite Own-Brand Paperbird Reflects Free-as-a-Bird Optimism
Sponsored
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.
COVID-19
Speed-to-Market in the Wake of COVID-19
A full-speed-ahead approach should include a well-defined destination and the avoidance of speed bumps.
Sustainability
Monolayer Materials Help Bring Plastics Full Circle
Brand announcements about packaging material usage shifts are coming in faster than we can post them on our website or write about them in our print pages.
Coding, printing & labeling
Shrink Sleeve Solution for Craft Brewery's Cans Lets Artist-Inspired Labels Shine
With a progression of differently decorated labels printed in succession on a roll, this customized shrink sleeve canning operation produces a range of unique, artistic labels during each run of craft beer.
Package Design
Amped-up Paper, Other Materials Make Inroads on Rigid Plastics
It’s too soon to say if all the anti-virgin plastic rhetoric from environmental critics will have a lasting impact on the packaging materials mix.
Package Design
Protective Packaging Demand Grows During Pandemic
Consumer demand for protective and hygienic packaging during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new innovations in the areas of sleeve, film, and cardboard coatings.
Business intelligence
5-Minute Listen: BumbleBee Packaging Design Shift Captures Market Share
In this 5-minute listen, BumbleBee Seafoods President and CEO Jan Tharp tells us how the company handled a total branding shift, including a packaging redesign meant to make the products more relevant on the shelf and appeal to higher end sensibilities.
Supplier News
BoxMaker Breaks Ground for a New Production Plant
The BoxMaker broke ground on a new production plant in Lowell, Ark., as part of a multi-million-dollar investment to effectively address growing demand across the country for digitally produced packaging and displays.
Package Design
New Probiotic Soda Gets Package Design that Pops
A brand and package design for new-to-market functional soda Culture POP feels familiar, with subtle nuances, and drives consumer trial in the natural and mass retail channels.
Package Design
Which Trends Will Dominate Packaging Design in 2021?
Equator Design Senior Creative & Strategy Director Howard Wright explains those trends that will harness the groundswell of new product innovation and refocused messaging of 2020.
Sustainability
How Hasbro is Phasing Out Plastic Packaging
The global toy company plans to eliminate all plastic packaging for new products by the end of 2022 and is introducing two new products that will “bring sustainability to family game night.”
Business intelligence
Unilever Label Change Influenced by Consumer Research
200 products will eliminate the word “normal” from product labels, as will all product advertising, in response to a 10,000 person, multi-country consumer study.
Package Design
A Glass Bottle Cool As Ice
Crafted from the finest Canadian corn and North America’s purest glacier spring water, Aupale is for anyone who appreciates fine spirits.
Package Design
Infusing Culture into Craft Packaging Design
An Inglewood-based brewing company uses design and digital marketing to resonate with consumers who have traditionally been overlooked in the craft beer market.
Supplier News
Do-It Corp. Acquires Tower Tag & Label
Do-It Corp. acquired Tower Tag & Label. Both Michigan-based companies design and manufacture hang tabs, display strips, and other retail display products.
Sustainability
Packaging for the Planet
How can food companies come up with a blueprint to integrate sustainability into product and material choices, and drive systems-level change?
