Filling, Capping & Closing

Capper Streamlines Insertion of Pump-Spray Caps

Not only does this VersaCap capper eliminate the need to manually insert a pump-spray cap, it uses a specially designed device to accurately guide the "straw” portion of the sprayer into the bottle. Runs at 50 bpm.

October 20, 2026

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Beverage

PET Bottle Dryer Offers Quick Adjustments, Modularity

This PET bottle dryer includes multiple ease-of-use features, from nozzle height and width adjusters to sensor-equipped easy-access doors, and modular design to accomodate end user needs.

October 19, 2026

Bagging & Pouching

Fruit Bagger Now Handles Delicate Stone Fruit

Schur Bagger now incorporates a new counting unit that gently fills peaches and other stone fruit into premade zipper bags and then seals them shut.

October 18, 2026

Filling, Capping & Closing

Liquid Filler Handles Two Different Products Simultaneously

Designed primarily for the paint industry, this one machine greatly reduces downtime because it lets you perform cleaning on one line while filling on the other.

October 18, 2026

Package Design

From Snack Bags to Sports Drink Sachets: How PepsiCo Shares Packaging Science Across Foods and Beverages

PepsiCo’s Prasad Joshi and Lindsay Bridenbaker explain why today’s package has to deliver an experience, not just protect the product, and how the company’s foods and beverages teams share science to make that happen.

October 16, 2026

Recycling

Suntory Pioneers 100% rPET Bottles from Inconsistent Feedstock

The brand owner's flake-to-preform process has run in Japan since 2018 on the nation's unusually clean supply of collected bottles. But in Thailand, where incoming quality is far more variable, Suntory reordered the process to make it work. Production starts in 2028 at roughly 400 million preforms a year.

October 14, 2026

Contract packaging

Greene Concepts Adopts Keychain for Sourcing Solution

Platforms like Keychain offer private label, brands, and co-packers new ways to find each other.

October 7, 2026

Filling, Capping & Closing

'Born in Japan, Brewed in Wisconsin'

Asahi invests in localizing the brewing of its fast-growing Super Dry lager by acquiring Octopi Brewing in Wisconsin and installing a brand new 20,000 bpm bottling line.

October 5, 2026

Sustainable Packaging

End of the Line Video Series: How Packaging Plays into Public Health Preparedness, Cybersecurity, and Navigating Multiple SKUs in the Supply Chain

Tune in to hear about EPR regulation's sliding scale, cybersecurity risks you haven't considered, and insights into supply chain forecasting.

October 5, 2026

Sustainability

Bayer Launches Mono-Material PP Blister in Germany for Its Talcid Antacid Treatment

The new blister replaces a multi-material structure with a single-material polypropylene design intended to facilitate recycling in markets where appropriate collection, sorting, and recycling systems are available.

October 1, 2026

Reusable/Returnable

Live from SPC Advance 2026: Making Refill Work in Personal Care

Frequent purchases and hard-to-recycle formats make personal care a natural candidate for refill, but convenience and performance remain critical to adoption.

September 30, 2026

Contract packaging

Five Pet Food Manufacturing Trends Reshaping Co-Man Strategy

Five game-changing pet food trends that are reshaping how brands partner with manufacturers

September 28, 2026

Contract Packaging

Sterling Contract Packaging Profiled in 'All Access' TV Series

Episode, to air on Andy Garcia's public TV series, makes the case for streamlined healthcare packaging.

September 25, 2026