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Packaging World’s beverage content focuses on beverage packaging and materials innovations, automation, machinery, and sustainability. Verticals within the scope of editorial coverage include: beer, coffee, dairy, drinks/non-alcoholic, juice, spirits/liquors, water, and wine.
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
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.
Bagging & Pouching
BW Packaging Announces 2025 Lineup for PACK EXPO Las Vegas
BW Packaging (a Barry-Wehmiller Company)
Discover solutions from Angelus, Hayssen, Pneumatic Scale, and Thiele Booth, all featuring the user-friendly OpView interface, in Booth W-3100!
August 20, 2025
Bw
Bagging & Pouching
Triangle Launches the Elwin at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2025: a Value-Packed VFFS Bagger for Growing Food Companies
Triangle Package Machinery Company
The Elwin bagger delivers reliability, safety, and flexibility for modern food production operations, and you can see it at Booth W-2200!
August 20, 2025
Triangle's Elwin with Auger
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.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Dry Aseptic Filling Decontamination System
Shibuya Hoppmann Corporation
Shibuya Hoppmann offers Dry Aseptic Filling Solution for beverage and dairy manufacturers, which use dry hydrogen peroxide vapor to sterilize PET or HDPE bottles for sensitive, shelf-stable, and high-viscosity products.
August 7, 2025
Shibuya Hoppmann
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
Podcast Logo Cmyk
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.
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Four of the five new packaging cells are dedicated to the 8.5-oz carton while one cell can do either 40-oz or 8.5-oz cartons.
Bagging & Pouching
Jiffy Mix Modernizes Packaging With Flexible, Compact Cells
Chelsea Milling Co. found a way to replace 18 filling lines with brand new equipment with no interruption in meeting consumer demand and without laying off any of its valued employees.
Pmmi Foundation
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PMMI Foundation Awards More Than $160,000 in 2025 Scholarships to Emerging Leaders in Packaging & Processing
Said panelist Stu Shepherd during the webinar, “The ability to get started in automation is easier now than it’s ever been before. The ease of use and all this is such that you really don’t have to have PhDs and scholars of other types on your staff to operate these systems. The systems will run. You just have to get out there and deploy.”
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