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Taking the Fifth (Panel): Create an Invitation to Engage
Using a fifth-panel carton allows for more space to educate consumers on your product and provides an interactive, sensory experience that can send a powerful message about your brand.
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2021 Healthcare Packaging Design Gallery
Take5
Branding Lessons from Vital Farms’ Fantastic Egg Carton
Workforce
Middle Schoolers Take on Big Brand Packaging Projects
Package Design
Budweiser Busts out Patriotic Cans for ‘Historic Summer’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sustainability
Plastic-Free Deodorant & Body Care Refill System Launched
A reusable aluminum case from Grove Collaborative is refilled with deodorant and body care balm sticks, also packaged in aluminum.
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GSK’s Head of Sustainability on Advil Bottles’ 20% Plastic Reduction
The new material will reduce the amount of plastic in the environment by nearly 500,000 pounds. Sarah McDonald: “It was about seven years of work behind the scenes together with our partners on the materials side and on the manufacturing molding side.”
COVID-19
unPACKED with Packaging World Podcast: Did 2020 Change Packaging Forever?
Listen to the unPACKed with Packaging World podcast for Matt Reynold's take on the seismic shifts in packaging caused by COVID-19 and societal call for social responsibility.
Sustainability
Innovation/Supply in the Post-Pandemic Era (are we there yet?)
Can the supply of/demand for recycled goods and bio-based materials replace geo-based packaging materials (metal, glass, plastics) without creating bio-based supply choke points?
Sustainability
Shapely, Reusable Steel Can for Shell Drives Motor Oil First
Shell introduces a two-piece, contemporary stainless steel can for its lubricant products for trial in the Loop reusable shopping platform in France.
Package Design
GoodPop’s Mission: Pledge Good. Do Good. Feel Good.
This good-for-you frozen treat company has refreshed its packaging with a new look that calls attention to its mission to create social and environmental good.
E-commerce
Shipper Plays a Starring Role In Progressive Unboxing Experience
A corrugated shipper’s primary job in e-comm is to get its contents to a consumer’s doorstep intact. But this one is able to do so with a bit of theater and flair.
Package Design
5 Emerging Trends in E-commerce Package Design
The rise in e-commerce in 2020 forced brands to rethink their package design to connect with consumers outside the retail environment. Here are five design trends that resulted and advice on how to select the style that’s best for your brand.
Materials & containers
CleverFoodies Leverages Injection-Molded Package
Supplier News
INX Can Design Contest Voting Now Open
A week-long voting period for the second annual Colored by INX Can Design Contest is now open to the public.
Package Design
The BoxMaker is Big on Digital for Corrugated
The BoxMaker, a leading U.S. manufacturer of digitally produced packaging, has announced the purchase of a second HP PageWide C500 Press, adding significant capacity as the converter launches a nationwide expansion.
Package Design
Specialty Deli Meat Pack Redesign Highlights Home-Prepared Meal Possibilities
This past year, more people than ever prepared meals at home, with 71% of Americans stating that they will continue this trend after the pandemic, according to food and beverage agency Hunter.
Package Design
5 Benefits of Virtual Focus Group Testing
Necessitated by the pandemic, virtual consumer focus-group testing offers benefits such as reduced costs, more authentic outcomes, and a wider pool of subjects from which to draw.
Package Design
People with Limb, Vision Disabilities Gain Access with Inclusive Deodorant Pack Design
A revolutionary deodorant pack prototype from Unilever’s Degree brand, now in beta-testing in certain communities of people with disabilities, makes the deodorant application process much more accessible.
Package Design
Old-School Prototyping Speeds Modern Packaging Design Workflow
A five-step packaging prototype design process based on ‘old-fashioned’ tools from Dr. R. Andrew Hurley helps students reap the benefits of both physical and digital tools.
