Through the Line: Packaging and Processing
Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: How Amazon Combines Tech and Material Innovation to Cut Waste
Paul Jenkins, managing director of U.K. packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub, sits down with Pat Lindner, VP of mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, to discuss how consumer needs and sustainable solutions often overlap, and the sustainability wins the company has achieved in meeting these priorities.
October 28, 2025

Wrapping

Recycling
Private Label Brands Target Low-Barrier, Recyclable Films via Retailer Forum
Major retailers including Amazon, Walmart, CVS, and Target are uniting through the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to accelerate development of recyclable, low-barrier flexible films that can meet circularity goals without disrupting existing lines.
October 22, 2025
Unlike food packaging or products requiring oxygen or moisture barriers, some applications don’t need the complex multi-layer laminations that make many films difficult or impossible to recycle.
Flexible packaging
Amcor Flexibles PELV25
Amcor's AmPrima Plus Recycle-Ready recyclable flow-wrap film offers a 180-day shelf life.
September 29, 2025
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Wrapping
Laffy Taffy Unwraps Easier-to-Open Mini Bar Packaging
Long a source of sticky frustration, Laffy Taffy’s wrappers have been reengineered for a clean, one-pull opening, just as sales surge and the brand refreshes its signature jokes.
September 15, 2025
Ferrara has rolled out new Laffy Taffy Mini Bar wrappers designed for a smoother opening experience.
Wrapping
Shell Polymers and Charter Next Generation Collaborate to Deliver Certified Circular Film Solutions
The collaboration will help divert plastic waste from landfills and meet the growing demand for sustainable solutions in the packaging industry.
September 4, 2025
Shell
Wrapping
Trioworld Announces New Manufacturing Facility in Brownsburg, Indiana
Trioworld
The facility will expand the company's production and service capabilities in North America and meet increasing demand for flexible films.
August 21, 2025
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Bio-based
Shell and Braskem Partner for Sustainable Polypropylene
Braskem
Shell Chemicals is supplying bio-attributed and bio-circular propylene feedstocks to Braskem to produce more sustainable polypropylene for various consumer markets.
June 9, 2025
Braskem
Bio-based
Live at Rethinking Materials: The Transition to Fiber-Based Packaging
As fiber-based packaging technologies advance, industry proponents say now is the time to replace plastic with recyclable, compostable alternatives—if policy, supply, and consumer clarity can keep pace. Is fiber the future of sustainable packaging?
May 13, 2025
(l. to r.) • Kevin Vyse of ProAmpac; David Walker of UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund; Laura Smith of Ellen MacArthur Foundation; Sian Sutherland of A Plastic Planet; and Adam Leyland of The Grocer.
Wrapping
Mars' Kind is Next in Line with Curbside Recyclable Paper Wrapper
The repulpable paper used to flow-wrap these bars is a curbside recyclable, How2Recycle pre-qualified paper film supplied by Printpack. The move is more evidence of a growing global, now national trend toward paper films able to run on existing equipment.
May 1, 2025
The Kind Dark Chocolate Nuts & sea salt bars will be sold in singles in the paper wrapper at Whole Foods, so a consumer will not purchase a carton.
Wrapping
Global Snack Bar Paper Wrapper Trend Makes U.S. Landfall with Riverside
Riverside Natural Foods, a certified organic snack producer, announced today that it is launching its MadeGood Trail Mix bars in AmFiber paper-based packaging from Amcor. Yet another data point in a global trend, the move, they say, is a category first.
April 3, 2025
Compared to traditional bar wrap, the package reduces the amount of virgin plastic by 77% and has been certified by Western Michigan University to meet repulpability standards necessary for the recycling process.
Conveying & accumulation
Video: Fast-growing Killer Brownie on the Hunt for Conveyors, Accumulation
At the inaugural PACK EXPO Southeast, we heard from Dayton, Ohio-based Matt Tye, post production manager of Killer Brownie on why he made the trip and what packaging equipment he's looking as his company prepares to expand into a new facility.
March 11, 2025
Matt Tye, post-production manager, Killer Brownie
Flexible packaging
FPA Announces the 2025 Flexible Packaging Achievement Award Winners
Flexible Packaging Association
FPA announced the 2025 Flexible Packaging Achievement Award Winners in a competition that emphasized sustainability and advancements in printing technology.
March 7, 2025
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Recycling
Orkla's Panda Pilots Paper Wrapper, Joins Confectionery Trend
Finnish brand owner Orkla Snacks tapped UPM Specialty Papers to pilot a new paper wrapper for its Panda milk chocolate brand. It's yet another data point in a growing movement toward paper-based films in confectionery and on-the-go energy or granola bars.
March 6, 2025
Orkla Suomi found a paper-based packaging solution to support its goal of increasing the share of renewable packaging materials without compromising recyclability.
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Products
Columbia FLD1500-SW Floor Level Palletizer
Introducing Columbia Machine's FLD1500-SW: a Compact, High-Efficiency Palletizer with Integrated “Stack and Wrap” Technology
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Columbia Machine unveiled the FLD1500-SW, which features a fully integrated stretch wrapper to achieve efficient, simultaneous "stack and wrap" load building within a 90-square-foot footprint.
Semi‑Automatic Stretch Wrappers
See the Best in Thermoform Packaging from Ossid in Booth W-1120 at PACK EXPO 2025
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