Sustainability

Companies Form Alliance to Launch Circular Packaging Solutions for the BIO Dairy Sector

The Spanish multinational Repsol reached an agreement with rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Jokey Group and Spanish organic dairy company Cantero de Letur to launch new packaging circular solutions for cheese products.

March 4, 2021

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Sustainable Packaging

Rice Race Intensifies: FEI Foods' Rice "First to Market" with Microwavable Mono-Material PP Pouch

The pouch size, shape, and function remain the same as the legacy multi-material packs, and the design continues to provide food-safety, ease of use, and convenience functions, only now more recycle-friendly.

March 3, 2021

Contract Packaging

Private Equity Perspectives on Co-Packing Trends

Packaging World spills so much ink holding up a mirror to brands and CPGs that it’s instructional to seek outside opinions from time to time.

March 2, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Pasta Brand Switches Oil- for Plant-based Film

The new PBR material is RIC1 approved so it is identified as PET in typical sorting processes; it can be recycled along with the PET without issue.

March 1, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Czech Craft Brewer Adopts Paperboard Can Handle System

This version of Smurfit Kappa's TopClip paperboard can handle product range targets small to mid-sized brewers and craft beverage brands, making it just the right size for Czech beer brewer Pivovar Clock.

February 27, 2021

Operational Excellence

PepsiCo Launches New Canned Cocktail Mixers

In a move to meet consumer trends, PepsiCo is launching ‘Neon Zebra’ cocktail mixes in aluminum cans, which are due to hit shelves on Monday.

February 26, 2021

Flexible packaging

Auburn’s Dept. of Animal Sciences Partners with Winpak

Winpak

Auburn University’s College of Agriculture and its Department of Animal Sciences are teaming up with packaging manufacturer and distributor Winpak to focus on research to extend the shelf life of meat and food products.

February 26, 2021

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Lenox Optimizes Wine Glass Packaging for Amazon Shipping

A packaging redesign for tableware brand Lenox for its red wine glasses hits the sweet spot, providing both enhanced sustainability and greater product protection for Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging requirements.

February 26, 2021

Cartons and boxes

Dog Food Carton is ‘Easy Like a Sunday Morning’

D2C company Sundays Dog Food chooses cereal carton-style box for its air-dried pet food, leaning in to the nostalgia of the format with its graphics and brand strategy.

February 25, 2021

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Steinecker GmbH Becomes an Autonomous Company Within the Krones Group

Krones, Inc.

Beginning in April 2021, Krones will move all its brewery business operations to Steinecker GmbH.

February 25, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

New D2C Cleaning Products: Refillable, Non-Toxic, and Counter-worthy

Blueland takes its first step toward transforming consumer shopping habits, with elegant, reusable bottles for cleaning products sold in a concentrated tablet format through e-commerce.

February 24, 2021

Secondary Packaging

Tray Sealer Brings Benefits to Berry Packaging

By eliminating a rigid, domed, snap-fit lid in favor of a clear flexible film applied by a new tray sealer, this German berry grower scores sustainability points and more.

February 24, 2021

Plastics/resins

Faca Packaging Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Faca Packaging

In 2020, Faca Packaging, a manufacturer of acrylic packaging, celebrated its 50th anniversary.

February 23, 2021