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Package Design Innovating to Match New Consumer Trends
Consumer trends have shifted in the past few years, and many businesses are adapting their product packaging to meet these new priorities.
Sustainability
Hotel Toiletries in Bioplastic Packaging Serve the Eco-Friendly Traveler
Supplier Submitted
Entries Open for 2022 Packaging Innovation Awards
Package Design
Legal Column: GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) Designation Goes to Congress
Package Design
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Take Five
Hotel Toiletries in Bioplastics Serve the Eco-Friendly Traveler
One CPG, Public Goods, is helping hotels avoid single-use plastics with a reusable, refillable toiletry solution. Also featured: Digital printing technology has exceeded being useful only for sales samples and regional event personalization.
Take Five
J&J Chief Medical Officer Talks Package Design Considerations
In part 2 of this two-part series, we delve into design considerations, including caregiver burnout, as well as some of Dr. Kuffner’s tips for those within and outside the packaging community to prevent unsupervised medication ingestions in kids.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Package Design
2022 OTC Package Design Gallery: Part 2
Each year, Healthcare Packaging evaluates an array of over-the-counter product packaging designs, assessing the pros and cons from a user perspective.
Sustainability
Planning Your E-Comm Package’s Funeral: Considerations for Designing for End of Life
Fuseneo’s Brent Lindberg advises E-Pack Europe attendees on how to design packaging for composting, reuse, and especially recycling, rather than for burial in a landfill.
Package Design
2023 WorldStar Global Packaging Awards Open for Entries
WPO (World Packaging Organisation) announces that submitting entries for WorldStar 2023 is now open and closes on October 20, 2022.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Package Design
2022 OTC Package Design Gallery: Part 1
Each year, Healthcare Packaging evaluates an array of over-the-counter product packaging designs, assessing the pros and cons from a user perspective.
Package Design
Absolut Vodka Restages its Flavors Line in Bold Strokes
New packaging design aligns with the refresh of Absolut’s original vodka bottle, but adds a brushstroke of color to differentiate varieties as well as continue the company’s history of using the bottle as a canvas.
E-commerce
Levain Bakery Builds a Better E-commerce Box
A 200% increase in online orders driven by the pandemic impels NYC-based bakery to design a new shipper that better protects its famed but fragile chocolate-chip cookies, reduces the complexity of the packaging, and brings the brand to life.
Package Design
3 Examples of Cannabis Packaging in 2022
Looking for inspiration? Check out these stories on QR codes for authentication, a right-sized vape pod carton update, and a colorful paper tube for cartridges and concentrates.
Supplier News
The BoxMaker Launches Redesigned Website
The redesigned website delivers an improved user experience including interface design, site speed performance, and an educational content library.
Coding, printing & labeling
QuickFresh Automates Nutrition Label Printing
This prepared meal delivery company improved flexibility and throughput with a full-color variable printer for cartonboard sleeves.
Take Five
Educating Consumers to Recycle Sustainable E-commerce Packaging
Paul Jenkins of the Pack Hub and I respond to questions about the next iteration of sustainable packaging for D2C and e-comm, and how brands can get info on how consumers are interacting with and disposing of the packs.
Package Design
Reducing Risk for Slack-fill Packaging Lawsuits: Part Two
Last month’s article concluded with this distinction: a defense strategy is reactive. Instead, a proactive approach—with its focus on lawsuit avoidance—should be a component of packaging management.
Package Design
Insider Column: Market Challenges Trigger Creative Responses
These tough times are a laboratory for packaging innovation as brands and CPGs look for creative solutions to unprecedented hurdles.
Package Design
Veritas Uses On-Pack QR Codes for its Cannabis to Provide Product Transparency
Denver-based cannabis company Veritas adds QR codes to its packaging that enable consumers to find detailed information on the specific cannabis strain and where the product is available for future purchase.
E-commerce
D2C SIOC Shoes Make Sustainable Statement
Micah Heftman hadn’t heard the acronym SIOC (ships in own container) when he designed a shoebox for his footwear. He just wanted to avoid a ‘box within a box’ experience. Only when he heard about SIOC did he realize there was a name for his pack design.
Package Design
Milk-Bone Rebrand Affirms That ‘Life’s More Fun with a Dog’
Leading dog treats brand Milk-Bone refreshes its look, wrangling 80 dogs in a photo shoot to capture the most tail-wagging, smile-inducing images for its iconic red packaging.
Package Design
Medical Device eIFUs: Hurdles to Overcome
Live from the[PACK]out: Regulations, regional acceptance, and validated packaging configurations all play a role. The challenges aren’t insurmountable but will require efforts from the packaging community.
Package Design
KiiP Tackles Wicked Problems in Package Material Stability
What began as a chat over coffee has led to work on a hypothesis and a white paper with far-reaching potential in saving time and resources in medical device packaging stability testing. Efforts were presented at the[PACK]out's inaugural event in Austin.
Package Design
Good Design Awards Highlight Connected Devices
The Chicago Athenaeum 2021 GOOD DESIGN Awards Program featured designs for insulin injectors, portable ultrasound and ECGs, allergy detection, and more. The closing date for the 2022 Good Design Award applications is June 1, 2022.
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