E-commerce/D2C packaging

3PL turns to automation to offset workforce shortages

Faced with a declining pool of warehouse workers and a rapidly expanding e-commerce business, third-party logistics provider ODW relies more on automated packing equipment.

January 22, 2019

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 235

Sustainable Packaging

Biopolymer Materials and Technologies Flourish

As the biopolymers market for packaging gets ready to take off, the range of bio-based renewable materials and the technologies being developed or used commercially continue to expand.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Global alliance formed, commits $1 billion to end plastic waste

Nearly 30 global companies representing the plastics value chain commit $1 billion to help end plastic waste in the environment, with the goal of investing up to $1.5 billion in the next five years.

January 21, 2019

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Report: Innovative new e-commerce at PACK EXPO

Covering 1.2 million net sq ft of exhibit space and drawing 2,500 exhibitors, PACK EXPO International brought 50,000 attendees to the biggest packaging event of the year. Here is our report on e-commerce.

January 21, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Single-serve packaging: the villain?

In this exclusive interview, Greener Package talks with Lynn Dyer, President of the Foodservice Packaging Institute, about the recent war on single-serve packaging, and whether it’s justified.

January 20, 2019

Sustainability

Tide packaged for E-com only

This bag-in-box format is designed specifically for e-commerce. Super-concentrated formula means just 105 oz washes the same 96 loads that a 150-oz HDPE press-tap bottle does.

January 18, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

PepsiCo closing in on recyclability goals for North American beverage packaging

PepsiCo has a stated goal that by 2025, 100% of its global packaging will be recyclable. The North American beverage side of the business is about 95% recyclable right now, according to Kathleen Niesen, Director of Recycling and Sustainability at PepsiCo North American Beverages and Quaker.

January 15, 2019

E-commerce

Paperboard folding carton growth predicted through 2022

New study reports that tariffs on China will factor into the equation. Meanwhile, e-commerce is expected to boost corrugated and paperboard box demand.

January 15, 2019

E-commerce

P&G launches an e-comm first

‘We have designed a package e-comm-back.’ That’s how Procter & Gamble describes the process behind its launch this month of the Tide Eco-Box.

January 15, 2019

Sustainability

Report: Plastic bottle recycling declines slightly in 2017

Industry challenges include changing export markets, a 3.6% drop in material collection, and increases in single-stream collection, resulting in greater contamination of recyclables.

January 14, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

New resource reviews global packaging frameworks, standards, and definitions

As more and more brands commit to packaging goals around reusability, recyclability, compostability, etc., it is becoming more important to clarify and align definitions.

January 12, 2019

E-commerce/D2C packaging

E-commerce in packaging

A collection of e-commerce coverage for the packaging and packaging machinery industry

January 11, 2019

E-commerce

P&G Eco-Box irks bloggers

This just in from the department of no good deed goes unpunished.

January 9, 2019