Digital Printing

As Digitally Printed Cans Develop, Craft Brewers Still Love Labels

The pandemic made craft brewers focus on retail packaging as kegs for foodservice, restaurants, and taprooms were diminished, and cans keep gaining momentum. In this "Take Five with Packaging World" video, we’ll look at how those cans are decorated.

April 9, 2021

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Sustainable Packaging

Transparent PP Yogurt Cup with Reverse-Printed Paperboard Exterior is Fully Recyclable

Trimona Bulgarian Yogurt chose a yogurt container with an outer paperboard wrapper, easily removed for recycling, and an inner transparent PP cup. Paperboard is reverse printed for an impactful consumer communication experience inside the pack.

April 7, 2021

Plastics/resins

Primitive Beer's Flat Lambic Launches Bag-In-Box Format Once Reserved for Wine

Primitive Beer, a small blending facility and taproom in Longmont, Colo., is putting its lambic-style ales in 1.5- and 5-L bag-in-box formats.

April 5, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

A Nestle First in Recycled Content

Nestle and a coalition of companies have collaborated to produce what they are calling Australia’s first flexible film food wrapper made with recycled content.

April 5, 2021

Flexibles

Maxwell House Says Compostable Coffee Pods: ‘Good to the Last Drop. And Long After.’

Bringing circularity to a traditionally wasteful package, TC Transcontinental Packaging took a Gold Award in Sustainability for its 100% industrially compostable single-serve coffee pod.

April 4, 2021

Sustainability

The Estée Lauder Companies Signs Global MOU With Eastman

Eastman Chemical Co.

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and specialty materials provider Eastman announced a global MOU that will enable ELC to reach its 2025 sustainable packaging goals.

April 2, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Schick Disposable Razors Take Sustainable Turn, Packaging Shifts to Match

Packaging for the Schick Xtreme 3 Disposable Razor is a thermoformed BOPP tray with film lidding. Now, consumers can choose the same razor design but now with a recycled (and recyclable) PP handle in a recyclable kraft-style paperboard PCR carton.

April 1, 2021

Cosmetics/Personal care

Packaging for ShopRite Own-Brand Paperbird Reflects Free-as-a-Bird Optimism

April 1, 2021

Sustainability

QC Boost Through X-ray Inspection

This high-quality pet product company cares deeply about what’s in the packages it ships, so management made x-ray inspection part of a recent plant expansion.

April 1, 2021

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Craft Brew—Can Filling

One story heard time and time again from craft brewers is that when aluminum cans all of a sudden became a must-have format, the canning equipment they first installed to meet the sudden demand quickly proved inadequate.

April 1, 2021

Operational Excellence

Pet Food Packagers Weigh In On Top Issue: Sustainability

Packaging World

Recently one of our content strategists chatted by phone with key players in the pet food marketplace. Their discussions really helped shed light on current trends affecting pet food processors and packaging professionals, sustainability taking top spot.

March 29, 2021

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Shrink Sleeve Solution for Craft Brewery's Cans Lets Artist-Inspired Labels Shine

With a progression of differently decorated labels printed in succession on a roll, this customized shrink sleeve canning operation produces a range of unique, artistic labels during each run of craft beer.

March 26, 2021

Sustainability

Post-Consumer Recycled Material Getting Traction

Argentine dairy producer Mastellone Hnos of Buenos Aires positions its La Serenísima Original milk brand as a natural product.

March 25, 2021