Sustainable Packaging

Tiny Bottle for Concentrated Mouthwash Replaces 10 16-oz Plastic Bottles

Aromatherapy oil-based mouthwash from GuruNanda comes in a concentrated formula packaged in a 2-oz glass bottle that holds 300 doses and reduces plastic packaging by 99%.

September 12, 2022

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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

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Volpak to Exhibit Flexible Packaging Solutions at PACK EXPO International

Volpak

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booth S-2501! Volpak, a Coesia company, will exhibit flexible packaging machines, including the new SI 280 hf/f/s machine designed for the flexible packaging of consumer goods.

September 9, 2022

Flexible packaging

TekniPlex Rebrands, Streamlines Corporate Identity

TekniPlex Consumer Products

TekniPlex’s rebrand is intended to streamline its corporate identity and further leverage its broad name recognition.

September 9, 2022

Secondary Packaging

End-of-Line Automation Reduces Snak King’s Labor Pains

Branded and private-label snack producer Snak King installs 16 robotic palletizers and three intelligent automated vehicles to address labor shortages and resulting labor costs, as well as streamline its operations.

September 8, 2022

Flexibles

Outdoor Clothier Finisterre is First with Water-Soluble Garment Bag

The ocean-safe, biodegradable Leave No Trace bag is made from PVOH that can be disposed of by running warm or hot water over it.

September 8, 2022

Thermoform/fill/seal

Thermoformer Lets Farmer Grab the Buck by the Horns

After designing a new animal tranquilizer dart that is free from the problems with those already on the market, this deer farmer then revisited the secondary issue with existing darts: a poor user-experience with packaging.

September 7, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

‘World-first’ Recyclable Paper Pack for Frozen Food

Seafood producer Iceland collaborated with sustainable, flexible packaging specialist Parkside to deliver one of the world’s first paper recyclable packaging solutions for frozen food.

September 7, 2022

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BASF and Other Brands Innovate Package Design Using Natural Materials

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See a few examples of packaging made with natural and compostable materials by BASF and others from ThePackHub’s August Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

September 6, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Dasani Launches in 100% rPET, Sprite Switches to Clear Plastic

In pursuit of a World Without Waste, Coca-Cola introduces a new bottle made from 100% rPET for Dasani water and moves from green to clear plastic for Sprite to improve recycling of the bottle.

September 6, 2022

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ACMA to Showcase Sustainable Packaging, Machinery Designed for Confectionery Applications at PACK EXPO International

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booth 2501! ACMA, a Coesia company will exhibit its CW 800 wrapper for spherical chocolates equipped with OptiMate Premium (Coesia proprietary PLC) and Ecoshell sustainable packaging designed for confectionery markets.

September 6, 2022

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Cartoner Ushers Bumble Bee Out of Plastic Shrink, Into Paperboard Multipacks

An enterprise-wide focus on sustainability pushed Bumble Bee Seafood to reinvent multipacking in a more readily recyclable, paperboard format. A 'Rolls Royce' of a cartoner certainly helped.

September 2, 2022

Robotics

Delicate Strudel Dough Picked and Packed in Enclosure-Free Robot Cell

At Weinbergmaier GmbH in Vienna, Sissi and Franz—as their human operators have quaintly named the two Stäubli robots—pack high-quality strudel dough in perfect synchronization within a cycle time of 1.5 sec.

August 31, 2022