Sustainability

Global Packaging Trends Point to a New Strategic Approach

New AMERIPEN Executive director Lynn Dyer highlights global packaging trends, shifting policies, and the need for a new strategic approach to balance sustainability with industry growth.

September 16, 2025

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Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Humanoid Robots in Packaging

This episode is a conversation between Associate Editor Casey Flanagan and Melonee Wise, former chief product officer at Agility Robotics. Wise participated in this report while in her former role but left the company in late summer 2025. They discuss the company's Digit Humanoid Robot and new features for connecting with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), improved safety for human collaboration, and its potential to add flexibility to packaging operations.

September 16, 2025

Sustainability

New Research Hub C3PS Tackles Packaging Challenges

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, attendees got a first look at C3PS, a new research hub bringing together universities and industry to develop scalable, sustainable packaging  technologies.

September 15, 2025

Digital Transformation

CAS Holdings Names Patrick McDermott Chief Revenue Officer and President

CAS Holdings, Inc.

CAS Holdings will leverage McDermott's extensive background in the automation industry to drive strategic growth and enhance revenue-generating initiatives.

September 15, 2025

Flexible packaging

Charter Next Generation and NOVA Chemicals Collaborate to Commercialize Recycled Polyethylene (rPE) for Sustainable Flexible Packaging

Charter Next Generation

CNG and NOVA Chemicals to supply high-quality rPE for flexible packaging, advancing a more circular economy by using PCR materials to reduce reliance on virgin plastics.

September 15, 2025

Digital Transformation

CAS Holdings, Inc.

September 14, 2025

Recycling

Target, Brazilian Pet Foods, and Ahlstrom Design Paper-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of paper-based packaging from Target, Brazilian Pet Foods, and Ahlstrom from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

September 14, 2025

Bio-based

Grove Toilet Cleaner Pods Reduce PVA, Use Compostable Pouch

New toilet bowl cleaner pods from Grove Co. use 38% less PVA and are sold in a certified home-compostable pouch, replacing the brand’s earlier metal tins.

September 12, 2025

Bio-based

Crocs is First to Use Algae-Based Ink in CMYK Packaging

The footwear brand’s Jibbitz shoe-charm packaging is the first commercial project to swap petroleum-based carbon black for an algae-derived pigment for black ink in full-color printing.

September 11, 2025

Sustainability

Royal Vaassen

September 10, 2025

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Benefits of Right-Sizing and Recyclability of Corrugated Material at Parcel Forum 2025

Packaging stakeholders highlighted the importance of right-sizing packaging in today's market and recycling rates for corrugated material at Parcel Forum 2025 Wednesday in Schaumburg, Ill.

September 10, 2025

Bio-based

Ten Billion Items of Single-Use Plastic to be Replaced, Following $14m Investment in Xampla

Xampla

Investment aims to replace 10 billion units of single-use plastic with Xampla's new plant-based Morro materials over the next five years.

September 10, 2025

Recycling

The Recycling Partnership Invests $4.25 Million in Houston Materials Recovery Facility

The Recycling Partnership

The facility upgrade aims to improve the recycling of film and flexible packaging and gather data to scale these efforts nationally.

September 10, 2025