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Power Hydration has launched its alkaline water brand in California in a PET bottle featuring Origin’s PET cap, a closure designed for full recyclability along with the bottle.
Containers & Closures
Water Brand is First to Commercialize PET Bottle Cap
The launch of new alkaline water brand Power Hydration in California marks the first commercial use of Origin Materials’ PET Cap, making both the bottle and cap recyclable.
August 21, 2025

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Reusable/Returnable
Lisbon Introduces City-Wide Reusable Cup Program
The Portuguese city is the first European capital to adopt such a program, cutting plastic waste for its nightlife and hospitality sectors.
August 15, 2025
Consumers pay a €0.60 deposit when they receive a drink poured in the reusable cups, which is refunded when they return the cup.
Bio-based
Dutch Juice Producer to use Bio-Based Polymer for Bottles
Hoogesteger signs a conditional offtake agreement with Avantium to use plant-based PEF plastic in the bottles for its fresh, cold-pressed juice.
August 11, 2025
Hoogesteger will use Avantium’s Releaf bio-based and recyclable PEF for bottles of its fresh, cold-pressed juice.
Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: Market Garden Brewery Scales Craft Beer Packaging
Market Garden Brewery's nearly all-new packaging line has a rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart. The line handles 100 cans per minute, allowing the company to future-proof by building more capacity than currently needed.
August 5, 2025
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Bio-based
Community Poll: Finding Areas for Sustainable Innovation
Learn where your peers find inspiration and motivation for sustainable innovations.
July 29, 2025
Sustainable Packaging
Aldi Adopts ‘World’s First’ Aluminum-free Full Barrier Aseptic Cartons
Aldi adopts SIG’s Terra Alu-free carton packs for its Rio d’oro juice line, aiming to cut carbon emissions by 29% with the world’s first aluminum-free full-barrier aseptic carton made from over 80% paper.
July 24, 2025
Aldi’s Rio d’oro grape juice debuts in SIG’s aluminum-free Terra packaging—made of over 80% paper—to help cut carbon and boost recyclability, while maintaining full barrier protection.
Bio-based
Compostable Capsules for Nespresso Original Line Systems
This specialty coffee roaster saw an opportunity when a customer asked for compostable packaging materials. “We’re heavily invested into doing this right,” says the firm’s president.
July 11, 2025
Metropolis’s Nespresso capsule business is growing in both own-brand (left) and private-label offerings.
Logistics/Supply Chain
Live at GS1: Coca-Cola’s Topo Chico Shows Packaging’s Frontline Role in 2D Barcode Ascendency
At GS1 Connect, Coca-Cola’s Ryan Vann and Schnucks’ Mike Wait shared lessons from piloting 2D barcodes on Topo Chico, revealing why the shift from 1D to 2D is a careful evolution—not a quick flip—for even the biggest brands.
June 13, 2025
Coca-Cola’s Topo Chico Sabores Passionfruit can serves as a real-world example of a dual-function 2D barcode: embedded with GS1 Digital Link standards for retail scanning and SmartLabel access, and positioned 50 mm from the 1D UPC to avoid double scans.
Logistics/Supply Chain
Live at GS1: Walmart, Brands Leverage Variable Label Data for FSMA 204
At GS1 Connect, leaders from Walmart, Conagra, and The Fishin’ Co. explored how FSMA 204 is reshaping traceability—and why packaging lines, labelers, and data systems must evolve to meet new retailer and regulatory demands.
June 11, 2025
Walmart associate handling fresh food.
Coding & Marking
CIJ Printing Upgrade Underway at Yuengling
From date codes on the bottoms of cans to codes that go on reusable kegs to codes printed on paperboard cartons, this brewery is investing in CIJ printing.
May 23, 2025
The newest CIJ coder installed at Yuengling replaces a laser coder. It’s mounted on the discharge of a cartoner used for 12-count cartons of bottles.
Bio-based
Live at Rethinking Materials: Mad Coffee's Compostable Pods Prove a Concept
Genecis Bioindustries launched its second consumer brand, Mad Coffee, in easy-to-open pods. The company engineers bacteria to make biodegradable PHA plastic that form the basis of these instant coffee pods. The material composition is PHA + PLA + BioPBS.
May 14, 2025
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Package Design
The Clear Can Conundrum
Although eye-catching from a marketing standpoint, beverage producers struggle to crack the code on a cost-effective and sustainable way to package beverages in clear cans.
April 29, 2025
Orka energy drinks are filled in a PET bottle with aluminum closures seamed on, and what appears to be a lightly printed, otherwise transparent pressure-sensitive PE label.
Beverage
How Equipment Can Ease Beverage Packaging Workforce Woes
Beverage company representatives believe increased development of equipment can help make up for industry labor issues.
April 25, 2025
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