Sustainable Packaging

Drive Profit Through Sustainability

Learn what attributes consumers value in sustainable packaging and their willingness to pay for those attributes to develop a strategy that results in profits.

June 30, 2020

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 205

Digital Transformation

ACC Announces Smart Start Program

Automated Control Concepts (ACC)

Automated Control Concepts (ACC) announces a new initiative—Smart Start—designed to help manufacturers begin the journey to digital transformation and information-based decision-making.

June 30, 2020

Sustainability

Recycling Takes Another Hit During Pandemic, Part II

The Coronavirus pandemic is creating a growing waste crisis even as we see images of the earth’s environment clearing from less pollution. A few months into the crisis, and the numbers are staggering.

June 29, 2020

Sustainability

Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2020—Virtual Event

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

The 2020 Sustainable Packaging Symposium virtual event, sponsored by AIChE, will be held June 29-July2.

June 26, 2020

Digital Transformation

Sick Launches Software Development Platform

SICK, Inc.

Sick launches the AppSpace Ecosystem a software development platform designed to enable users to customize 2D and 3D vision solutions.

June 26, 2020

Flexible packaging

Liquibox Launches New Website

Liquibox

Liquibox launches a new website as part of the company’s rebranding efforts.

June 23, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

ERP Upgrade Enables Direct-to-Consumer Model for Avery

QAD’s latest cloud-based enterprise resource planning system has helped Avery better integrate its operations to provide the flexibility needed to depart from its traditional big box pallet model.

June 23, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Amcor Extends Partnership Network by Joining World Wildlife Fund-led ‘ReSource: Plastic’

Amcor Flexibles North America

Amcor has joined the World Wildlife Fund-led activation hub, ReSource: Plastic, a global consortium of companies and organizations collaborating to keep waste out of the environment.

June 22, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

AIR Bottle for Personal Care Line Reduces Plastic by 50%

New personal care line, MyKirei by Kao, reflects the company’s Kirei, or ‘beautiful,’ Lifestyle Plan, with sustainable packaging that uses two pouches to create a ‘revolutionary’ rigid bottle.

June 22, 2020

Sustainability

Colbert Packaging Adapts TICCIT 2020 Program

Colbert Packaging Corp.

Schoolchildren sheltered-at-home can learn about the life cycle of paperboard containers due to the partnership of Colbert Packaging and the Paperboard Packaging Council’s “Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees” (TICCIT) program.

June 22, 2020

Sustainability

Perfume Carton the Result of Sustainable Thinking

New Finnish luxury fragrance brand selects a lightweight, durable paperboard for its new line of products that mirrors its brand concept and values.

June 19, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Proposed U.S. Legislation Puts Focus on Plastic Waste Reduction, Recycling

Key components include improving the global competitiveness of the U.S. plastics recycling industry, U.S. leadership in waste reduction and recycling research and in standards development, and an investment of $85M in 2021.

June 17, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Neste and Jokey Collaborate to Develop Rigid Packaging from Renewable and Recycled Materials

Jokey Group

Neste and Jokey, a manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging, have started collaborating to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications.

June 17, 2020