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Eric F. Greenberg

The Public Hears About Levels (For Once)

FDA addresses the safety of substances in foods and packaging.

May 14, 2024

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Containers & Closures

Q-tips Moves into its Second Century with Brand Refresh

Iconic cotton swab brand gets a facelift following its 100th birthday that balances brand equity with modernity and showcases the many ways Q-tips can be used.

May 14, 2024

Live at Waste Expo: Brands to Benefit from MRFs’ AI Robotic Sorters?

MRFs love their AI-based robotic sortation systems from the likes of AMP, Greyparrot, or Glacier. They're more accurate, safer, and always show up for work. But CPGs also may benefit from package design and recovery data they're are generating.

May 6, 2024

Brands and CPGs have their own sustainability goals to hit, and data telling them how practically recoverable their existing and future packaging design actually are, in the real world would be worth in gold. AI-based pick-and-place robotic sortation cells at MRFs can deliver that data.

Sustainable Packaging

AB InBev’s Four Peaks Takes the Guesswork Out of Recycling

The Arizona Craft Brewer is revamping its sustainability messaging alongside its package design with the addition of CIRT’s digital, location-based recycling tool.

May 6, 2024

Consumers can scan the CIRT QR code on the back of all Four Peaks packaging to access local recycling information.

How Can Craft Brewers Shape the Future of the Industry?

Craft brewers are nearing the end of the era of rapid adoption and must find ways to increase demand and create more occasions for American drinkers to choose craft.

May 2, 2024

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, gave his annual report on the state of the craft brewer industry.

Hotel Amenity Bottle Uses 100% Ocean-Bound Plastic

Natural personal care brand LATHER sources certified ocean-bound HDPE for a bottle for its new Landscapes Collection of amenities for hotels and resorts.

April 30, 2024

The 100% ocean-bound plastic bottle in earth-tone colors with a black dispensing pump is being used for five Landscape Collection hotel products from LATHER.

Colbert Packaging Introduces Students to TICCIT

Colbert Packaging Corp.

Wisconsin and Indiana elementary students learn about the lifecycle of trees and the meaning of 'Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees' from Colbert Packaging.

April 23, 2024

Kevin Pittner teaches second- and third-grade students about the lifecycle of trees.

3D-Printed Molds Speed New Unilever Bottle Designs to Market

For Unilever, bottles that are stretch blow molded with a 3D printed tool are nearly indistinguishable from the final product produced through traditional metal tooling processes, and get product to market more quickly.

April 18, 2024

Bottles produced with a 3D printed tool are nearly indistinguishable from the final product produced through traditional metal tooling processes. From left to right: the two-part mold 3D printed with Rigid 10K Resin, a bottle produced with the mold 3D printed with Rigid 10K Resin, a bottle produced with a metal mold, and a labeled prototype bottle for customer testing.

CANsultants Close Up Shop, But Scott Biondich Charts New Course in Packaging Design

Packaging Innovation & Design

While John Adams retires, Biondich launches Packaging Design & Innovation LLC., a new firm offering packaging consulting to brands and companies.

April 10, 2024

Packaging Innovation

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Live at SPC Impact: Right-sizing Amazon Private Brands' Packaging

Amazon redesigns that simplify packaging, while remaining mostly consumer neutral, are worth making. Also, brands can get certified and rewarded for compact packaging on a virtual shelf, instead of getting lost on a real one.

April 3, 2024

Certain SKUs of Amazon private label batteries, packaged in SIOC, were too frequently co-packed in multi-product orders at Amazon fulfillment centers. The robust corrugated packaging that made them SIOC-ready wasn't being used for its original purpose, and only added weight and space within a shipping case.

Sustainable Packaging

British Crisp Co. Launches First Recyclable Paper Chip Bag

The British Crisp Co.’s paper chip bag uses new polymer technology to achieve curbside recyclability in a first for the format.

March 29, 2024

The British Crisp Co.'s new bags use paper with Hydropol polymer technology as a plastic alternative.

Containers & Closures

Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project Sends Supply Chain Ripples

A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react? We asked Alejandro Santamaria, Coke's senior director.

March 27, 2024

All small PET bottles in 12 oz, 16.9 oz and 20 oz will be lightweighted from 21 g to 18.5 g for all The Coca-Cola Company’s sparkling brands, Minute Maid Refreshments, and Minute Maid Aguas Frescas in the U.S. and Canada.

Equator Doubles U.S. Presence with West Michigan and Minneapolis Office Integration

The global packaging design company will integrate two offices previously under the charge of parent company SGK, expanding its in-house capacities and doubling its U.S. presence.

March 22, 2024

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Products

delfort's thinwrap transparent gloss HS

Transparent, Heat-sealable Paper

delfort's thinwrap transparent gloss HS is a heat-sealable, recyclable, and food-safe transparent paper that allows consumers to see products through paper-based packaging.

Metal Packaging Color Libraries

Messe Düsseldorf to Promote “Interpack Alliance” at PACK EXPO 2025