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Pelee’s Aluminum Wine Bottles Blossom
Pelee Island Winery expands its packaging options with a 250-mL aluminum bottle for its Lola series that mimics the grace and beauty of its glass bottle counterpart.
Package Design
Jones Soda Bottles Come to Life with AR Labels
Sustainability
Grove Collaborative is First with Plastic-Free Refillable Deodorant Pack
Supplier Submitted
Packaging Design Award Showcases ProAmpac’s Collaborative Innovation
Package Design
Getting Noticed: Standing Out on Shelf and In-Hand
Supplier News
Regional Packaging Companies Form the Novvia Group
A group of leading regional packing companies backed by Kelso & Company including Inmark, C.L. Smith, Silver Spur, and Container Supply united to form The Novvia Group, a high-quality packaging solutions company with domestic and international customers.
Package Design
Budgeting Bliss: Package Designs Students Prepare Estimates
A successful package is more than just a snazzy design, a whole lot more, but even the best design won’t make it to the shelf if it costs too much to make.
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Standard Parts for Packaging and Processing Machinery and Equipment
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Package Design
Inclusivity Needs Packaging, and Packaging Needs Inclusivity
The first Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) was founded as an organization in the UK back in 1946. While much has been done since it’s founding through many universities and some companies, more is needed.
Package Design
Good Reasons for Package Redesign
Since reasons can include the questionable and the capricious, it’s worthwhile to know some good ones.
Supplier News
WPO Announces Packaging Training Courses for 2021
WPO (World Packaging Organisation) Vice President Education, Henky Wibawa announced five new packaging training programs for the second half of 2021. The first was recently held in Kenya.
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SYNTEGON RPP: HIGH-TECH ROBOTIC SOLUTION WITH EXPERT INDUSTRY KNOW-HOW
Automation in packaging is a fast growing trend. The Syntegon RPP platform offers a whole range of possible configurations to suit your requirements. We help you to reach your production targets.
Supplier News
Vanguard Companies Wins Gold and Silver in the Box Manufacturing Olympics
Vanguard won two gold awards and one silver award in the first-ever 2021 Box Manufacturing Olympics. TAPPI’s CorrPak Competition and AICC’s Package Design Competition joined forces to create the new competition.
Take Five
Brushing up on Toothpaste Packaging Innovations
Take Five video: To reduce the number of toothpaste tubes ending up in landfills each year, both multinationals and startups in the oral care industry are engineering new packaging that is not only recyclable, but in many cases, eye-catching as well.
Package Design
Social Media Buzz for Oreo Thins Limited Edition Camouflage Packaging
Oreo partnered with Green Giant, Ford, Hanes, and Better Homes & Gardens to create limited run “Protection Program” packaging for a recent social media sweepstakes.
Package Design
Colgate Elixir Tops the 2021 IoPP AmeriStar Awards
Colgate Elixir, by Colgate-Palmolive, landed in the top spot as the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) announced the winners of the 2021 AmeriStar Awards competition. There were 24 winners and three student award winners.
Package Design
Minimalist Design Reflects Cannabis Brand’s Earth-Centered Focus
Ebb-brand dissolvable THC powder is packaged in an earth-friendly, child-resistant paperboard tube with simple yet colorful graphics that let the product speak for itself.
Sustainability
Emerging Brand Debuts First 100% Recyclable Ice Cream Carton
Sacred Serve plant-based gelato uses a unique paperboard ice cream carton design that is now made from 100% virgin, food-safe paperboard and a food-safe, water-based barrier coating.
Package Design
Inclusive Packaging: Kellogg’s UK Rolls Out Cereals with Tag Tech for the Blind and Partially Sighted
The new code on its packaging will allow a smartphone to detect and playback labelling and allergen information to the user.
E-commerce
8 Packaging Trends Shaping the E-commerce Landscape
New e-commerce study reveals the importance of sustainable packaging and consumers’ preferences around inner packaging components and gift-like attributes in purchase decisions.
Sustainability
Recycle-Ready for Pet Food Retort Pouches
Retort pouches are popular for moist and semi-moist pet food manufacturers because of their light weight. But finding a pouch material that can withstand retort conditions with excellent barrier properties while being recycle-ready has been a challenge.
Package Design
Almond Breeze On-Pack AR Experience Maps Orchard-to-Shelf Journey
Blue Diamond uses AR to educate and entertain consumers on their Almond Breeze brand, with a technology that links the packaging to a website, rather than a dedicated app, for consumer convenience.
Take Five
5 E-Comm Packaging Graphic Design Trends Headed for Your Doorstep
On today's Take Five with Packaging World: The rise in e-commerce in 2020 led to brands rethinking package design to connect with consumers outside the retail environment. Here are five major design trends that resulted.
Contract packaging
Driving Consumer-Centric Packaging Innovation
Packaging is a critical asset that plays a major role in the success of a product. CP/CMs need to be proactive in understanding consumer preferences to advise their CPG customers on innovation.
Package Design
Avoid Misguided Redesigns
A package redesign guarantees change, but not automatically for the better.
Take Five
Nestlé’s Vittel Water Beta Tests Both a Durable Reusable Bottle and a Paper Bottle
Take Five Video: Vittel® mineral water used the Tour de France to test prototypes for two bottle types: One uses a durable plastic outer shell for reusability, the other uses a paper outer shell for easy recycling. Both use thin film inner liners.
Package Design
5 New Beverage Packaging Designs Celebrate Summer
From a soda can that provides access to virtual hip-hop concerts to a tequila seltzer package illustrated to conjure that ‘south of the border vacation’ feel, these recently released package designs celebrate summer togetherness.
