Sustainable Packaging

Apple purchases 36,000 acres of timberland for packaging

The initiative with The Conservation Fund will protect working forests while providing Apple with a source of eco-friendly packaging materials.

April 27, 2015

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Sustainable Packaging

Walmart releases 2015 Global Responsibility Report

Highlights include progress toward food and packaging material waste reduction and the use of more sustainable—recycled-content, recyclable, and reusable—packaging.

April 27, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Beverage packaging’s benefits detailed

AMERIPEN’s latest brochure outlines how beverage packaging provides economic and environmental benefits by preventing spoilage, spillage, and waste.

April 27, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Co-packer's bright shrink sleeve idea saves the day for Coke/Fuze-owned energy drinks

Contract packager ActionPak does more than salvage more than $2 million in product with out-of-compliance nutritional labeling; a limited-edition promo sleeve boosts image of NOS energy drinks among NASCAR fans.

April 23, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: MES software

PharmaSuite MES Software is a single track-and-trace system for batch and discrete production.

April 22, 2015

Sustainability

High-recycled content can for GA microbrewery

Microbrewery embraces aluminum can with at least 90% recycled content for its craft beers, citing the can’s sustainability benefits for the brewery and for the community.

April 22, 2015

Contract packaging

All-natural cocktail mixers adopt aseptic carton packaging

‘A revolution for the cocktail mixer category,’ according to Powell & Mahoney, a new aseptic carton for the company’s products preserves the mixers’ clean, authentic flavor...with help from co-packer Leahy-IFP

April 17, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Study makes the case for recycling grocery rigid plastics

A new economic overview of recycling grocery rigid plastics reveals a 1,000-lb bale of recycled rigid plastic can be worth $100 to $200, making it a good source of revenue for grocers.

April 15, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

P&G joins Flexible Film Recycling Group

As part of its efforts to reduce its environmental footprint and that of its consumers, P&G has joined a self-funded group established to increase the recovery of flexible PE film, wraps, and bags.

April 13, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Japan's Kuraray acquires Plantic

Kuraray expands its bio-based barrier film capabilities with Plantic Technologies acquisition.

April 9, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Evolving recycling stream is subject of new report

Report looks at recent and anticipated changes in municipal solid waste streams, principally plastics, to foster greater understanding among supply chain members.

April 1, 2015

Flexibles

Bread bag is 36% bio-based

Eureka! Organic Bread switches to bread bags made of 36% sugarcane-based PE when introducing its products to the East Coast market for marketing and sustainability benefits.

April 1, 2015

Thermoform/fill/seal

Tracking innovative product/package development

Debuted to the general public on the television show “Shark Tank,” Hoppy Paws, Newport Beach, CA, has created a product to add fun and imagination to the holidays.

April 1, 2015