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Robotic Loads Randomly Placed Product from Conveyor into Automatic Cartoner

This Econocorp cartoning system uses a camera to tell a Fanuc LR Mate robot how and where to pick product for loading in a reciprocating pattern.

October 31, 2022

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Plastics/resins

Seventh Generation Unveils Its Largest Rebrand Ever

The new visual identity includes all of the brand’s touchpoints, including new packaging designs for 200 SKUs. Graphics include an evolved leaf logo and evocative, molecular-inspired illustrations.

October 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever Goes Green with New Laundry Capsules

Unilever’s new Persil capsule and plastic-free container feature an improved sustainability profile while maintaining functionality.

September 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

IoPP’s AmeriStar Awards Highlight 2022 Packaging Achievements

Sustainability remains a primary packaging innovation driver, but function, user-friendliness, consumer experience, aesthetics, and convenience don’t take a back seat in this year’s crop of award winners.

August 12, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Dow Award Finalists Reduce Waste, Increase Recyclability

These innovative packaging solutions bring uncanny and never-before-seen solutions to food and beverage, health and hygiene, agriculture, and other industries.

August 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

P&G uses Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Packaging Design

Victoria Jung, Packaging Technology Leader for P&G’s Surface Care Portfolio, explains how the company uses LCA to guide its packaging design, using Swiffer, Mr. Clean, and Dawn as examples.

July 20, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Defunkify Helps Remove 41K Pounds of Ocean Plastic

To offset its plastic packaging footprint, bio-based household cleaning products company Defunkify partners with rePurpose Global to help fund the removal of plastic waste headed into marine ecosystems

June 2, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Live from Circularity 22: Grove Collaborative Continues to Push ‘Beyond Plastic’

Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability for Grove, shares how the company’s ambition to be plastic-free is the first step toward a circular economy.

May 18, 2022

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

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