Package Design

From Snack Bags to Sports Drink Sachets: How PepsiCo Shares Packaging Science Across Foods and Beverages

PepsiCo’s Prasad Joshi and Lindsay Bridenbaker explain why today’s package has to deliver an experience, not just protect the product, and how the company’s foods and beverages teams share science to make that happen.

October 16, 2026

Drinks, nonalcoholic

Recycling

Suntory Pioneers 100% rPET Bottles from Inconsistent Feedstock

The brand owner's flake-to-preform process has run in Japan since 2018 on the nation's unusually clean supply of collected bottles. But in Thailand, where incoming quality is far more variable, Suntory reordered the process to make it work. Production starts in 2028 at roughly 400 million preforms a year.

October 14, 2026

Recycling

Purification Technology Brings Recycled PP to Stadium Souvenir Cups

The dissolution process gives Churchill Container a 100% PCR resin that can run on existing equipment and meet the visual demands of high-profile sports packaging.

August 17, 2026

Package Printing

CanSource Expands Aluminum Beverage Can Digital Print Capabilities

CanSource

The company has added a 19.2-oz digitally printed can to its lineup and installed a new digital printer at its Charlotte, N.C., facility.

August 12, 2026

Filling, Capping & Closing

Technology Minute: Vacuum Barrier Delivers Precise Liquid Nitrogen Dosing

Vacuum Barrier Delivers Precise Liquid Nitrogen Dosing

June 11, 2026

Controls & machine components

Fristam Pumps Introduces an Inline Mixing System for Efficient Powder-to-Liquid Mixing

Fristam Pumps USA

Learn how Fristam Pumps' PL Powder Dissolver quickly dissolves free-flowing powders into liquids using a forced-passage mixing principle to ensure rapid dispersion and homogeneous blending without clumps, waste, or excess processing time.

March 9, 2026

Cartoning

DCC Automation Acquires Custom Metal Designs

DCC Automation

The acquisition of CMD expands DCC Automation's capabilities to deliver more fully integrated front-of-line to end-of-line automation solutions.

January 12, 2026

Recycling

Top 15 of 2025, #7: Coca-Cola Hits 100% Recycled PET Mark

The #7 most clicked article of 2025: This marks the first national adoption of 100% recycled PET bottles for a sparkling brand across the U.S.

December 29, 2025

Filling, Capping & Closing

Krones to Open North American Logistics Center, Expand Manufacturing

Krones, Inc.

Krones Inc. announces plans to open a 240,000‑sq‑ft Logistics Center in Franklin, Wisconsin to consolidate regional shipping and warehousing operations, support local manufacturing expansion, and enhance automated order fulfillment.

December 5, 2025

Recycling

Sustainability Progress in Bottle Closures

Innovation in bottle closures is helping the industry balance consumer needs, recycling efficiency, and mounting sustainability and regulatory pressures.

November 17, 2025

Package Design

V8 Energy Gives its Package Design a Refreshing Boost

Campbell’s Company brand V8 Energy is highlighting its “better-for-you” positioning and aiming for greater shelf impact with its new design.

October 23, 2025

Adhesive application

Topo Chico Innovates in Case Gluing and Sealing with Valco Melton’s EcoStitch

At its Monterrey plant, Topo Chico has reduced adhesive consumption by nearly 55% in the hot-melt gluing of boxes for its mineral water bottles, thanks to Valco Melton’s technology.

September 15, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

PepsiCo Kicks Off Reusable Cup Program at 49ers Stadium

PepsiCo launched its first reusable cup project with an NFL franchise this preseason at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium, with an estimated waste savings of tens of thousands of disposable single-use cups.

September 9, 2025