Sustainability

Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Pringles Adjust Package Materials to Add Sustainability

See a few examples of packaging material adjustments for sustainability by Coca-Cola and others from ThePackHub’s September Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

September 21, 2022

Bakery/Snack: Page 5

Bakery/Snack

Southern Recipe Small Batch Modernizes Pork Rind Package Design

Southern Recipe Small Batch’s new pork rind package design touts flavor and dietary benefits to attract both new and traditional consumers.

September 21, 2022

Secondary Packaging

End-of-Line Automation Reduces Snak King’s Labor Pains

Branded and private-label snack producer Snak King installs 16 robotic palletizers and three intelligent automated vehicles to address labor shortages and resulting labor costs, as well as streamline its operations.

September 8, 2022

Robotics

Delicate Strudel Dough Picked and Packed in Enclosure-Free Robot Cell

At Weinbergmaier GmbH in Vienna, Sissi and Franz—as their human operators have quaintly named the two Stäubli robots—pack high-quality strudel dough in perfect synchronization within a cycle time of 1.5 sec.

August 31, 2022

Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

Mettler Toledo Launches New Product Inspection Systems

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection

Mettler Toledo Product Inspection launches a variety of inspection systems for the commercial baking industry.

June 15, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Levain Bakery Builds a Better E-commerce Box

A 200% increase in online orders driven by the pandemic impels NYC-based bakery to design a new shipper that better protects its famed but fragile chocolate-chip cookies, reduces the complexity of the packaging, and brings the brand to life.

June 6, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Dutch Bakery’s E-Comm Pack Keeps Cakes Cool

E-commerce is hard enough for durable, shelf-stable products. It's even trickier for cakes, etc., that need to maintain a temperature of less than 7°C (45°F) while out for delivery. Here's how a popular Dutch bakery and e-tailer sustainably made it work.

May 18, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor Exceeds Customer’s Expectations

Multi-Conveyor

Katherine Yates, Operations Manager and Matt Tye, Packaging Operations Manager at The Killer Brownie® Company discuss their satisfaction with the equipment Multi-Conveyor recently installed at their facility.

May 3, 2022

Digital Printing

Snacks in Digitally Printed Cans

This Canadian startup discovered that the best way to get its tasty snacks to market in ring-pull aluminum cans was to rely on direct-to-shape digital printing.

April 29, 2022

Flexibles

Scrumptiously Printed ‘Box Pouch’ Expands Distribution, Consumer Convenience for Gourmet Popcorn

To expand merchandising options for its tube-packed gourmet popcorn, Popcornopolis introduces a resealable, stand-up box pouch decorated with images of the iconic tubes.

March 24, 2022

Flexibles

Frito-Lay Achieves Ambition for a Quieter, Industrially Compostable, 100% Bio-based Snack Bag

The Off The Eaten Path bag is unique in that the entirety of the materials used—the print web, barrier sealant webs, inks, and adhesive—had to meet current, often stringent, third-party certification requirements for industrial compostability.

March 24, 2022

Operational Excellence

Innovation Overload at Natural Products Expo West 2022

A small sampling of the many innovative products seen at Natural Products Expo West, some of which were launched at the show.

March 10, 2022

Flexibles

BW Flexible Systems’ Hayssen VFFS Machine For Intelligent Sanitary Bagging

This next-generation design of vertical form fill seal machines was developed through customer interviews for intelligent, sanitary bagging.

October 13, 2021