Package Design

Video Show & Tell: P&G’s Tide Evo Rolls Out Nationwide

Packaging World editor Anne Marie Mohan takes a closer look at one of the most anticipated innovations in laundry care packaging: Procter & Gamble’s Tide Evo. First previewed in 2024, this new format replaces traditional liquid and pod detergents with a compact, multilayer detergent tile that eliminates water, reduces waste, and enables a fully paper-based package.

April 3, 2026

Detergents/cleaners

Robotics

Cleaning Chemicals Producer Tackles Labor Challenges with Cobot Palletizing

Faced with high labor turnover, tight floorspace, and nearly 900 SKUs, Nyco Products turned to modular cobot palletizing to stabilize end-of-line operations, improve throughput, and create a more sustainable workforce model.

April 1, 2026

Reusable/Returnable

Wellness-Driven Laundry Detergent Debuts in Refillable Packaging

Designed for durability and display, Ripl Efek’s reusable vessel and aluminum refill cans introduce a more sustainable and design-focused approach to laundry care.

March 20, 2026

Controls & Machine Components

Graco’s Tank-Free Hot Melt System Reduces Adhesive Use and Downtime

Graco Inc.

See how Graco's InvisiPac melts adhesive on demand—eliminating char buildup, reducing glue consumption up to 30%, and improving uptime for high-volume CPG packaging lines.

March 9, 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

Containers & Closures

How Colgate-Palmolive Pushed a Familiar Resin Into New Territory

At The Packaging Conference this week, Polyplastics and Colgate-Palmolive detailed how high-Tg Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) can enable HDPE bottles to run in ISBM at low concentrations, achieving 30% lightweighting while maintaining drop performance and recyclability.

February 13, 2026

Coding & Marking

Top 15 of 2025, #11: P&G’s Tide Laser Marks Cap for Better Dosing Clarity, Recyclability

The #11 most clicked article of 2025: A new laser-marked closure eliminates labels and inks while standing out on the shelf and giving consumers permanent, easy-to-read dosing guidance.

December 25, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel

How can sustainability and convenience intersect? Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.

October 21, 2025

Detergents/cleaners

CPG Clean Control Inspects its New Drop Packer on PACK EXPO Floor

Nic Bekkers at Clean Control says his company's new Serpa drop packer, a first for ProMach, delivers smooth, servo-driven performance with single-dial changeovers, ergonomic quick-swap grids, and 98% uptime—packing bottles of cleaner safely and efficiently while leaving room to scale production when its major retail customers say so.

October 1, 2025

Contract Packaging

Radienz Living Adopts Paperboard Carton for Laundry Pods

Radienz Living and GPI will debut an all-paper, child-resistant carton for laundry pods, aiming to cut plastic, boost pallet efficiency, and meet safety standards in club-store and perhaps e-commerce channels.

September 3, 2025

Contract packaging

Co-man’s Ribbon Blender Boosts Output for Chemicals

For its custom powder blending business, Diversified Chemical Products plugs in a ribbon blender that now processes three-quarters of a million pounds annually.

August 6, 2025

Detergents/cleaners

Snuggle’s Rebrand Emphasizes Visual, Value Recognition

Snuggle has revamped its packaging designs with strategic communication in mind.

March 17, 2025

Containers & Closures

Revolutionary Detergent Washes Away Plastic Bottles in Favor of Soap “Tiles” Stacked in Cartons

Procter & Gamble’s Tide unveils dissolvable tiles that clean in cold water and are packed in recyclable cartons, cutting down on plastic waste, water usage, and transportation energy.

May 14, 2024