Flexible packaging

Ballpark peanuts take sustainable turn

This flexible peanut bag, made of certified compostable materials, was developed for sporting arenas and stadiums to help sports teams, venues, and leagues achieve the next level of landfill waste diversion by eliminating a pesky food scrap contaminant. FPA judges awarded this package design a Gold Award for Sustainability.

March 15, 2018

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Easy-open Doritos pack makes snacking fun

PepsiCo Mexico Foods launches Doritos in a tetrahedron-shaped pouch that opens easily to make sharing the snack both easy and fun.

March 14, 2018

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Vanity Fair redesigns for the everyday

Georgia-Pacific reinterprets the elegant packaging for its Vanity Fair napkin brand to differentiate its daily-use offerings and make its product more approachable.

February 5, 2018

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Video highlights value of paper sack recycling

As part of a recycling awareness campaign, The Paper Shipping Sack Manufacturers’ Assn. releases a video highlighting the benefits of recycling clean, unlined shipping sacks with OCC.

January 31, 2018

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Transparent pouch clearly differentiates Tree Top Apple Sauce

Company says pouch represents a ‘game changer’ and allows parents and children to ‘see it before they squeeze it.’

January 18, 2018

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Pregis invests $1 million in blown film testing lab

Pregis LLC invested $1 million in a new 1,000 sq ft testing lab for its Grand Rapids, Michigan, blown film manufacturing facility. Lab personnel will be focused on customer needs driven research and development, as well as quality testing.

January 17, 2018

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Tin-ties meet automation

This New York coffee producer needed to automate the application of tin-tie reclosures to its bags of ground and whole-bean coffee. An ingenious and affordable machine was the result.

January 5, 2018

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Sunlight-activated ink answers the question, ‘Where is Chester?’

Said to be the largest commercial use of photochromic inks by a CPG, a promotion by PepsiCo Mexico uses light-sensitive inks to reveal Chester the Cheetah on bags of its Frito-Lay snacks.

December 17, 2017

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New report forecasts stand-up pouch demand will top $4.5 billion by 2021

Total supply chain cost and sustainability issues continue to be the key drivers of demand for stand-up pouches.

December 12, 2017

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Kansas City Chiefs ‘go nuts’ over compostable peanut bag

First-of-its-kind compostable packaging for peanuts debuts at Arrowhead Stadium, scoring a victory for the Kansas City Chief’s Extra Yard for the Environment program.

December 11, 2017

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Bath salts get biopolymer bag

Skincare company with a passion for protecting the health of people and the planet switches to polyethylene made from sugarcane for its Himalayan Bath Salts.

December 11, 2017

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Pouches for at-home cocktails

Bibo Barmaid of Annandale, NJ, now produces individually-sized cocktail mix pouches for the first at-home cocktail machine that produces the perfect drink in less than 20 sec.

December 8, 2017

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New designs for meat snack packaging kick clichés to the curb

New graphics for The Meatsnacks Group’s Wild West jerky and Cruga biltong snacks replace clichéd, contrived artwork with images that speak to the authenticity of the products.

December 3, 2017