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Package Design
Premium, Single-Origin Instant Coffee is Totally Tubular
Boston area-based specialty coffee roaster introduces an instant coffee product produced using a new freeze-drying process and packaged in a PP tube that provides a nine-month shelf life.
Package Design
Horror Vacui! Reevaluating Empty Design Space
Package Design
LG Electronics Taps Customizable Kit for Unboxing, Brand Experience
Package Design
Direct-to-Can Digital Print for Craft Brewer
Supplier Submitted
The Manufacturing Institute to Honor Meena Banasiak, Phoenix Inc.
Package Design
Limited Edition Peanut Butter Jar Seeks to Settle GIF vs. JIF Debate
The J.M. Smuckers Co. designs a limited-edition jar for its peanut butter with its JIF logo transformed to GIF and a social media hashtag to spur consumers to join the debate.
Package Design
Mischievous Dancing Duppy Adorns Spiced Rum Label
Rum brand extension builds on original bottle label graphics, with a playful, shapeshifting creature from Caribbean folklore, putting the focus on the exuberant nature of drinking rum.
Package Design
Würth IT Partners With NiceLabel to Transform Supplier Labeling
Würth IT, a service provider for the Würth Group, selected NiceLabel to help it create a new web-based standardized supplier labeling process.
Package Design
Ingredient Illustrations for Salad Dressing Evoke Fresh-Market Experience
Marie’s Salad Dressing uses a small-batch, freshly-crafted identity for its new sub-brand, Marie’s Market Reserve, a product made with ‘carefully selected gourmet ingredients.’
Package Design
From Dark to Light: Hope in a Jar
Packaging for a line of Ayurvedic-ingredient hair-repair products strikes a serious yet hopeful tone, mirroring the brand’s larger social mission to support suicide prevention.
Package Design
Recycled Blister Packaging
Rohrer launches ecoCombo, a sustainable blister package that uses 50% PCR content in the thermoformed blisters and a minimum of 65% PCR content in the blister boards.
Package Design
A Touchdown for Mars Wrigley’s Connected M&M’S NFL Pack
At the AIPIA World Congress, Mars Wrigley and WestRock detail a pilot that used digital printing and Augmented Reality for a collectible, connected M&M’S pack in Green Bay, WI.
Package Design
All-Paper Blister Package
The Alloyd Division of Sonoco introduces EnviroSense PaperBlister, an all-paper retail blister package designed as an alternative to traditional thermoformed plastic blister packages.
Package Design
Embossed Wallet for Sublingual Strip
A recurring theme when it comes to packaging of cannabis is the transition from having an army of people in manual mode to an operation where automated or semi-automated systems reduce the amount of packaging that’s done by hand.
Package Design
2020 Perspectives on 2030 Packaging
Should these packaging visions come to pass, packagers and their packaging technology vender/partners will continue to find efficient, sustainable ways to identify, protect, and distribute products to their consumer and industrial customers.
Package Design
Packaging is the Vehicle in Dogwalkers’ Brand Journey
Cannabis brand gets a full redesign that results in a discreet, convenient packaging system with a distinguished, time-tested feel. It uniquely uses color to communicate not only to consumers, but also to stakeholders throughout the value chain.
Package Design
Smart Pack Invites Consumers to View Value Chain
Brazilian dairy producer Languiru Cooperative has become a leading regional market players despite increased competition thanks to a unique QR code on each pack that tells a brand story. SIG’s Connected Pack solutions allowed the innovation.
Package Design
DS Smith Opens New Manufacturing Plant
DS Smith announced the opening of its state-of-the-art 550,000 sq-ft manufacturing facility in Lebanon, IN.
Package Design
Salmon with a Smile: Fish Brand’s Bold Personality Captured in Redesign
New label graphics for Honey Smoked Fish Co.’s salmon products evokes the original founder’s ‘big personality,’ while taking its cues from old fish market signage.
Package Design
Imperial Printing Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Imperial Printing & Paper Box Mfg. Co., a custom folding carton manufacturer, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Package Design
Broken Glass Makes a Comeback in Limited Edition Absolut Bottle
Made from pieces of broken, recycled glass, the Absolut Comeback bottle is created to encourage recycling and a more circular lifestyle among the vodka producer’s consumers.
Package Design
Progressive Disclosure: The Full-Course Meal of Packaging
Progressive disclosure of information about a product through on-pack labels and instructions contained within the packaging enhances the consumer’s experience one action at a time.
Package Design
The Power of Iconic Package Design
Warhol retrospective at Chicago’s Art Institute recalls how iconic brands and their alluring package design inspired the pop art movement and catapulted the artist into history.
Design
TricorBraun Acquires Packaging Solutions, Inc.
Packaging manufacturer TricorBraun acquired Minneapolis-based Packaging Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a rigid packaging distributor serving several markets, including pharmaceutical, pet food, and personal care.
Package Design
Column: Colgate-Palmolive Competes on Toothpaste, not Tube
Colgate-Palmolive’s breakthrough toothpaste tube, on pace to be fully rolled out by 2025, is certified as recyclable by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR).
Business intelligence
Clean Label Impacting Food Packaging and Formulation
The “clean label” consumer trend is heavily influencing food processing, with nearly half of participants interviewed for a new PMMI Business Intelligence report being impacted.
Coding, printing & labeling
The Evolution of Digital Inkjet Labels
Variable data and personalization are just the tip of the digital print iceberg, as new developments alter purchasing, production and supply chain in the market.
