Flexible packaging

Colgate-Palmolive and Walmart Shake Up the Dish Soap Category

New Palmolive Shake & Clean Dish Soap features a reusable bottle and a concentrated gel packaged in a flexible pouch for 75% less plastic waste.

April 11, 2022

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Sustainable Packaging

Waste Free Products Turn to Packaging To Cut Consumer Waste

As brands shift their focus to more sustainable packaging, people like Tangie by Waste Free Products are figuring out how to eliminate packaging waste entirely.

March 16, 2022

Sustainability

Catching Up with Grove Collaborative as it Goes Public

Jon Silverman, Grove’s Senior Vice President, Physical Products, catches Packaging World up on the once emerging, now fully emerged brand owner, including the most recent big news that it plans to go public.

January 4, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Blueland Adds to Plastic-Free Laundry Products Lineup

Further advancing its plastic-free packaging mission, non-toxic household cleaning products company Blueland introduces a laundry booster powder packed in a compostable pouch, with a reusable steel tin for storage.

December 20, 2021

Flexibles

Iconic Ajax Brand Adopts a Flexible New Pack Attitude for Compostable Wipes

When appealing to Millennials and GenZers in the EU, even tried-and-true stalwarts like Colgate-Palmolive's Ajax can use a little refresher. The project represents the brand's first foray into the plant-based disinfectant wipes format.

November 1, 2021

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Bag-in-box Withstands Rigors of E-comm Delivery

With a focus on sustainability, HEX Performance® launched a new packaging solution for its liquid detergent that it says uses 60% less plastic than standard HDPE bottles, and withstands the challenges of the e-commerce logistics chain.

October 26, 2021

Secondary Packaging

BW Integrated Systems Highlights User-friendly, Vertical, Flexible, High-level Palletizer

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, user-friendly machine meets customer and market demands with quick, vertical start-up.

October 21, 2021

Sustainability

Football Stadium PET Bottles Transformed into Mr Muscle Packaging

SC Johnson partners with the Liverpool Football Club to transform half a million PET bottles into new packaging for its Mr Muscle household cleaning products in the U.K.

October 21, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever Expands Refill Trials in the U.K.

After a successful trial with Asda last year, Unilever is launching the largest refill trial of its kind in the U.K., offering popular personal and household care products in return-on-the-go and refill-on-the-go formats.

September 1, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Exclusive Interview: Palmolive Ultra Moves to 100% rPET Bottle

Speaking with Packaging World in advance of the launch, Greg Corra, Global Packaging Innovations & Sustainability, Colgate-Palmolive, discusses the development of the new 100% recycled-content, recyclable bottle.

March 17, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

New D2C Cleaning Products: Refillable, Non-Toxic, and Counter-worthy

Blueland takes its first step toward transforming consumer shopping habits, with elegant, reusable bottles for cleaning products sold in a concentrated tablet format through e-commerce.

February 24, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Loop Reusable/Returnable Packaging Platform Launches in Canada with Retail Partner Loblaw

Loop’s global expansion continues, bringing waste-free shopping for a range of food and household products, including Loblaw own-brand items, in reusable packaging to Canada

February 1, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Loop and 7th Generation Chat with Packaging World about Returnable/Reusable Packaging

Tom Szaky of Loop and Kelly Murosky from Seventh Generation discuss returnable and reusable packaging options during PACK EXPO Connects last Fall—watch the 8-minute video.

January 12, 2021