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One of the latest brands to embrace advanced recycling is Mars Petcare, which is launching a new pouch for its Sheba wet cat food that incorporates, on average, 30% recycled polypropylene from advanced recycling technology.
Sustainable Packaging
Mars Petcare Retort Pouches use Certified Circular PP
For its Sheba brand wet cat food pouch, Mars Petcare uses polypropylene produced through advanced recycling; the film is both food-safe and retortable.
April 4, 2022

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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
For the bag graphics, Popcornopolis created a design incorporating the brand’s iconic tube packaging.
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
compostable chip bags for Off the Eaten Path
Conveying & accumulation
Customized Conveyor System
Multi-Conveyor
Multi-Conveyor recently built a complex, yet small footprint, custom conveyor system that uses a servo transpositor retract and two stacked servo merges to transport bags of chicken from three baggers to two case packers, with X-ray scans in the process.
April 1, 2022
Over Under Transpositor Product Settling Merge 3 Baggers To 2 Case Packers By Multi Conveyor High Res
Flexibles
Nestlé Canada’s Smarties Pouch Moves from Plastic to Paper
The bag material converted into premade pouches for Nestlé Canada comprises Forest Stewardship Council-certified, surface-printed paper, a heat-resistant overlacquer, and a water-based dispersion coating.
March 24, 2022
The proprietary overlacquer, applied in-line on the press, adds heat-resistance and protects the surface-printed paper from rubbing and scuffing in use.
Flexibles
Recyclable Stand-Up Pouch Boasts Luring Design
Eight-color gravure printing makes the pouch distinctive with a matte surface and a high-resolution product image.
March 24, 2022
The dates are individually packed to maintain a smooth texture and sold in a striking stand-up pouch.
Flexibles
KitKat Mini Moments Make a Big Shelf Impact
To make the lamination recyclable, OPP non-heat sealable film and metalized biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) are used on both sides of the treated material instead of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and metalized PET.
March 24, 2022
The pouch also has laser scoring for easy tearing by the consumer.
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Triton Helps Snack Food Manufacturer Optimize Product Flow and Accuracy
Triton Innovation, LLC
A Midwest snack food manufacturer chose Triton Innovation’s metering hopper and feeder systems when it added a new line to its production.
March 29, 2022
Snack Food On Site Pic
Flexibles
Flexible Pouches Replace Rigid Containers at McDonald’s
Rigid containers for back-of-house condiment applications in McDonald’s foodservice settings were wasteful and bulky to store. So, the fast-food giant and its suppliers teamed up to invent a flexible packaging-based applicator solution.
March 24, 2022
The FlexPrep portion-dispensing device is in action here in a foodservice setting. It uses pouches (inset image) with two coextruded transparent films (A) to form the pouch body, and a blue spout (B) for pressure-based dispensing.
Flexibles
Digitally Printed Hershey’s Wrappers Celebrate Women
The Celebrate SHE Campaign was undertaken as a form of unique media and a vehicle to celebrate acts of courage and determination by women.
March 24, 2022
The campaign generated considerable earned media, with hundreds of posts, reposts, and likes on social media platforms.
Flexibles
Tyson Meal Kit Shines Through in Flexible, PE-Stream-Ready Carrier Pouch
The Tyson and Amcor meal kit pouch collaboration received a 2022 Gold Award from the FPA for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging.
March 24, 2022
The new material delivers high levels of clarity, stiffness, and heat and abuse resistance—qualities that are unavailable in any other recycle-ready films on the market today.
Flexible packaging
Emerald Packaging Announces Commitment to Reduce Plastic Use by 2025
Emerald Packaging
Emerald Packaging became a signatory to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. This requires the company to make firm commitments to reduce the use of plastic by embracing goals in line with creating a circular economy.
March 15, 2022
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Operational Excellence
Doting Pet Parents Drive Innovation in Packaging Design, Technology
Pet food brands are embracing new packaging design strategies and technologies to meet pet parents’ desire for fresher, healthier pet food products and sustainable packaging. See four recent examples.
March 11, 2022
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