Recycling

WM Report: CPGs Can Find Brand Loyalty Through Recycling Commitments

Consumers are looking to brands for more recycling commitments and guidance, with many specifically looking to purchase products including recyclable or recycled material, a new WM recycling report says.

October 31, 2025

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Digital Transformation

Walmart Uses ‘First-to-Market’ RFID in Fresh Categories

Walmart expands its use of RFID technology to fresh food departments like meat, bakery, and deli, introducing digital labels that boost inventory accuracy, reduce food waste, and streamline operations.

October 28, 2025

Package Design

V8 Energy Gives its Package Design a Refreshing Boost

Campbell’s Company brand V8 Energy is highlighting its “better-for-you” positioning and aiming for greater shelf impact with its new design.

October 23, 2025

Package Design

Lightweight Alloy Lifts Design and Sustainability in Axe Aerosol Can

Trivium Packaging’s aluminum can for Axe Fine Fragrance uses a proprietary alloy to cut weight by 5% while preserving strength and design precision, earning an IMDPA Best in Category award for Aerosols & Bottles.

October 21, 2025

Cartoning

Born Simple Turns to Retortable Cartons for Shelf-Stable “Better Bowls”

Born Simple introduces shelf-stable “Better Bowls” in retortable, recyclable Tetra Pak cartons. The company says the move combines convenience, sustainability, and real ingredients with a preservative-free, ready-to-eat format.

October 21, 2025

Cup/tray filling/depositing/sealing

Raque Food Systems Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation in Industrial Food Equipment

Raque Food Systems

Raque Food Systems marks its golden anniversary and 30 years with PMMI with a legacy built on custom solutions for ready meals, bakery, and snacks and a commitment to future innovations in automation and performance monitoring.

October 21, 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

Package Design

Live from London Packaging Week: Bentley Fragrance Package Embodies Elegance and Sustainability

Bentley Motors extends its design philosophy beyond the automotive world with a fragrance package that reflects precision, purity, and a clear commitment to sustainable materials.

October 17, 2025

Robotics

Robot Floor Cleaner Helps Augment Sanitation Team

These robots can run lights out at facilities, clean up to 20,000 sq. ft. and can replace or augment sanitation departments to help clean high traffic areas.

October 1, 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

Workforce

Beth Rennich Joins KDV Label as Business Development Manager

KDV Label

Rennich brings over twenty years of experience in sales and account management within the label and packaging industry to focus on customer base expansion and market growth.

October 1, 2025

Digital Transformation

Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 3: An Integrator’s Viewpoint

An integrator describes what it would take for humanoid robots to be a viable automation option, and whether they have seen any interest in the technology among CPG customers, in part three of our series exploring humanoid robots in packaging and processing.

September 30, 2025

Workforce

How to Make the Most of an OpX Work Product: Spectrum Brands' Story

Learn how leaders at Spectrum Brands used the OpX “Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing” work product as a springboard for team development, and what other CPGs can learn from their approach.

September 29, 2025