Best of the 2019 Top to Top Summit

Onsite coverage from PMMI's 14th annual Top to Top Summit, with its largest-ever CPG and OEM audience.

Editors from Packaging World, ProFood World and OEM Provide an inside view into the 2019 Top to Top Summit. Conversations at the summit focused on Artificial Intelligence, CPGs, robots, AR/VR and the challenges unique to the supplier-buyer relationship.

If you missed the summit or are looking for a comprehensive recap, fill out the form below to download the free PDF.

A Glass Bottle Cool As Ice

Crafted from the finest Canadian corn and North America’s purest glacier spring water, Aupale is for anyone who appreciates fine spirits.

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Predictive Maintenance Pain Points in Packaging Machinery

There are specific packaging machinery needs related to predictive maintenance, and a new PMMI Business Intelligence report researched what is most prominent.

Not-yet-released Wills of Steel, one of Crowns & Hops' Women's History Month releases, will hit shelves the last week of March.

Infusing Culture into Craft Packaging Design

An Inglewood-based brewing company uses design and digital marketing to resonate with consumers who have traditionally been overlooked in the craft beer market.

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Packaging for the Planet

How can food companies come up with a blueprint to integrate sustainability into product and material choices, and drive systems-level change?

Rice Race Intensifies: FEI Foods' Rice "First to Market" with Microwavable Mono-Material PP Pouch

The pouch size, shape, and function remain the same as the legacy multi-material packs, and the design continues to provide food-safety, ease of use, and convenience functions, only now more recycle-friendly.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

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.

Czech beer brewer Pivovar Clock became the first adopter of a new paperboard can handle system designed to help smaller brewers and beverage producers appeal to consumers’ sustainability sensibilities.

Czech Craft Brewer Adopts Paperboard Can Handle System

This version of Smurfit Kappa's TopClip paperboard can handle product range targets small to mid-sized brewers and craft beverage brands, making it just the right size for Czech beer brewer Pivovar Clock.

PepsiCo Launches New Canned Cocktail Mixers

In a move to meet consumer trends, PepsiCo is launching ‘Neon Zebra’ cocktail mixes in aluminum cans, which are due to hit shelves on Monday.

Lenox’s new red wine stemware package for Amazon comprises two inserts holding six glasses, covered with a paperboard sleeve, and shipped in a corrugated case.

Lenox Optimizes Wine Glass Packaging for Amazon Shipping

A packaging redesign for tableware brand Lenox for its red wine glasses hits the sweet spot, providing both enhanced sustainability and greater product protection for Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging requirements.

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Predictive Maintenance 101

What does it mean, and why is it important? Learn more from a new PMMI Business Intelligence report.

Commercial launch for this new mono-material, all-PET pack will be in April 2021.

Unilever Japan's Lux Luminique Joins Mono-Material Movement

The company chose this PET mono-material, which comes from the GL Barrier range of films by Toppan Printing, after successfully collaborating with the converter on quality tests.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

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.

MWC, Kraft Heinz, and CTI Foods Named Winners of Manufacturing Innovation Awards

The award-winning food companies will reveal technology highlights of their projects and be honored during a special session at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, September 27-29.

New D2C Cleaning Products: Refillable, Non-Toxic, and Counterworthy

Blueland takes its first step toward transforming consumer shopping habits, with elegant, reusable bottles for cleaning products sold in a concentrated tablet format through e-commerce.

The double-lane tray sealer provides flexibility for medium-sized outputs, yet it’s capable of reliably sealing up to 140 trays/min.

Tray Sealer Brings Benefits to Berry Packaging

By eliminating a rigid, domed, snap-fit lid in favor of a clear flexible film applied by a new tray sealer, this German berry grower scores sustainability points and more.

The Alpha Turbo High-Level Bulk Depalletizer is among the machines in the Busse/SJI division that feature a range of new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) machine health monitoring capabilities.

Machine Condition Monitoring via IIoT

This Arrowhead Systems division is taking full advantage of new IIoT tools that make machine diagnostics readily available and help customers maximize OEE.

Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation Update

Nearly a dozen proposals for packaging producer responsibility have been brought forth already this year. Learn how they differ and how they are alike in their strategies.

Another Brand Adopts Post-Consumer Recycled Packaging

Founded in 1953, green-minded home improvement and construction brand HAGA specializes in natural and organic building materials, such as lime or clay plaster.

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Valvoline Revs Up Convenience with Gear Oil in Stand-Up Pouches

The FlexFill pouch for synthetic gear oil makes it easier for DIY-ers to dispense and reduces the amount of product waste versus the rigid bottle it replaces.

Lidl Ready Meals

Extended Shelf Life Key to Lidl’s Latest RTE Line

Using a unique process-in-pack technology, German grocery giant added shelf life to ready-to-eat meals that will extend their market range.

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Specially Printed Lidding Adds Branding Space

Four different designs, printed using eight colors on polyester material, have been produced for the vegan-friendly snack pot range from Blooming Good Food Co.

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Contract Packaging Association and Nulogy Bring Online Training to Contract Packagers/Manufacturers

Nulogy University provides CP/CMs with the training and education to navigate CP/CM industries, as well as software applications and shop floor best practices.

FDA & CDC: No Transmission of COVID-19 Through Food or Food Packaging

FDA and CDC continue to underscore that there is no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission of COVID-19.

Coca-Cola will test this paper bottle in Hungary this summer.

Coke To Test Paper Bottle

The Coca-Cola Company’s first-ever paper bottle prototype is transitioning from the lab to the marketplace this summer through a limited online trial in Hungary.

Growth of Contract Packaging and Manufacturing Through 2025

Interview with Bush Brothers and Pretzels, Inc. on the expanding role of contract packagers/contract manufacturers during the pandemic, with an introduction by PMG's Jim Chrzan on recent Contract Packaging Association survey results.

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Alcohol Consumption Habits Shift During COVID-19

New white paper explores how adult beverage consumption and purchase habits have changed during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future.

‘Pearl Milling Company’ to Replace Aunt Jemima Brand Name

PepsiCo, which owns the Quaker Oats Company, announced the forthcoming rebranding of the Aunt Jemima brand in 2020.

Some of the labels produced by Wegmann on the new hybrid press.

Hybrid Label Press Has Big Impact

St. Louis-based Wegmann Companies, a manufacturer of custom printed labels with extensive hybrid & digital production capabilities, recently installed a hybrid digital/flexo press.

Exploring monolayer films for frozen, microwavable foods

Brian Stepowany of B & G Foods (Green Giant Brand) joins Packaging World's Matt Reynolds to discuss R & D considerations and how progress has been affected by Covid crisis. Six-minute video report.

Sidnee’s Homemade Lemonade, is a preservative-free beverage made from organic fruits, alkaline water, and cane sugar.

Two Better-for-You Brands Get Free Closures for a Year

Sidnee’s Homemade Lemonade and Simply Soupreme are the lucky start-ups awarded with free bottle closures and insights into their businesses in this second annual competition.

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CEOs and long-term vision

How to see beyond the now and plan for the future. Bumble Bee CEO Jan Tharp talked with OEM editor, Stephanie Neil during PACK EXPO Connects. Here is a one-minute clip on long-term vision.

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Coca-Cola Transitions Brands to 100% rPET, Unveils New ‘Sip-Size’ Bottle

Among the innovations rolling out through July 2021 are new 100% rPET bottles, a new 13.2-oz bottle size, enhanced on-pack recycling messaging, and a new aluminum bottle for water.