E-commerce/D2C packaging

Dutch Bakery’s E-Comm Pack Keeps Cakes Cool

E-commerce is hard enough for durable, shelf-stable products. It's even trickier for cakes, etc., that need to maintain a temperature of less than 7°C (45°F) while out for delivery. Here's how a popular Dutch bakery and e-tailer sustainably made it work.

May 18, 2022

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Sustainability

Graphic Packaging’s Award-winning Hybrid Packaging Delivers on Sustainability

Graphic Packaging International

Since its launch in 2020, the PaperSeal® range of trays from Graphic Packaging International has proven it can satisfy the growing imperative for packaging to have greater circularity and be more sustainable.

May 17, 2022

Flexible packaging

Ecolean Rated in Top 1% in Sustainability by EcoVadis

Ecolean

For the second year in a row, Ecolean was awarded the Platinum EcoVadis medal, placing the company’s sustainability work in the top 1% of assessed companies globally in 2022.

May 12, 2022

Shrink wrapping

PAC Machinery to Exhibit at EXPO PACK México

PAC Machinery

PAC Machinery (PAC) will showcase its Rollbag R785 automatic bagger at Booth 2236.

May 11, 2022

Sustainability

Amcor Launches Lift-Off Initiative for Innovative Start-ups

Amcor Flexibles North America

Amcor’s Lift-Off is an open-call initiative aimed at supporting seed stage start-ups focused on innovative packaging solutions and related technologies. Winners will receive $250,000 as well as operational guidance, to take their ideas to the next level.

May 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Bill Nye the Science Guy and Coca-Cola Teach Recycling in Fun, Accessible Video Short

Coca-Cola and Bill Nye (the Science Guy) team up to create a stop-motion video that aims to demystify recycling. In a unique twist, the actual materials used to model Nye and the set in the stop-motion animation are recycled or recyclable.

May 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN: ‘New Recycled Content Mandates Doomed To Fail’

An examination of legislation meant to boost demand for PCR reveals lawmakers are not considering the full implications of these requirements and the other industries that compete for demand.

May 9, 2022

Contract Packaging

GreenSeed Contract Packaging Names Brad Meridith Director, Customer Service Management

Long-term growth strategist Brad Meridith, director of customer service management, offers CPGs one point of contact for innovative packaging solutions at GreenSeed Contract Packaging.

May 6, 2022

Sustainability

Creation Reprographics Signs Agreement to Supply Fujifilm’s Flenex FW Flexo Plates

Fujifilm

Creation Reprographics, a dedicated prepress partner to packaging and label printers, signed a four-year deal to supply Fujifilm’s Flenex FW sustainably focused water-washable flexo plates.

May 5, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging TODAY: Food and Beverage Trends

Tired of food and beverage packaging increasing your carbon footprint and eco-shame? Discover sustainable options available now, all explained by U.K. sustainable packaging expert Paul Jenkins of the PackHub and Packaging World’s Matt Reynolds.

May 4, 2022

Retail display packaging

Smurfit Kappa UK Acquires Atlas Packaging

Smurfit Kappa Group

Smurfit Kappa UK Limited, a manufacturer of paper-based packaging products acquired Atlas Packaging, an independent corrugated packaging provider.

May 3, 2022

Sustainability

Refillable Aluminum Bubble Container Goes Against the Norm

Bubble Tree launched with an aluminum bottle designed to reflect the brand’s goals of sustainability and environmental safety.

May 3, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Recycling Drives Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of recyclable packaging innovations from ThePackHub’s April Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

May 2, 2022