Contract Packaging

What’s Your Game?

4 common constructs to build your contractual relationship with a brand or consumer packaged good company customer.

March 11, 2024

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Contract Packaging

Navigating the World of Robots

Tips and considerations when investing in a robot.

March 11, 2024

Contract Packaging

What CPA Has Been Doing for You

Association for Contract Packagers & Manufacturers (CPA)

CPA members: Take advantage of amazing speakers, game changing reports, and opportunities through events.

March 11, 2024

Contract Packaging

Decisions on Technology

As the manufacturing world tends more towards automation, digitization, and robotics, contract packagers and contract manufacturers have choices to make.

March 11, 2024

Operational Excellence

Craft Market Success Comes in Many Packages

Craft producers can build greater brand awareness by focusing on factors like primary packaging variety, multipacks, and specialty releases.

March 8, 2024

Sustainability

SC Johnson and AMERIPEN Testify About Federal-Level EPR

The multiple-day hearings highlighted a need for collaboration between the government and the primary stakeholders to come up with a palatable program.

March 8, 2024

Sustainability

No Surprise Who is Leading Sustainable Packaging Charge

Shoppers 18-34 are willing to pay more for sustainable packaging, according to an ALPLA survey.

March 8, 2024

Case/Tray Packing

Gentle Case Packing Cures Broken Bottle Blues

The ascendancy of contract packaging means that once-neglected bottling lines are coming back strong. Here’s how Yards Brewing switched drop pack operations to pick and place, reducing scrap to the minimum, both for its own and its contract customers.

March 8, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Kellanova, PepsiCo, and LUSH Introduce Recycling Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of recyclable packaging innovations by Kellanova, PepsiCo, and LUSH from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

March 7, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Mattress Company Moves to Paper for Roll-Packed Products

A successful switch from PE to paper for organic mattress and bedding company Naturepedic is a case study in CPG and machinery supplier collaboration.

March 7, 2024

Robotics

Amazon Invests in AI-Powered Packaging Sortation Robots for MRFs

Glacier gets $7.7M in funding from Amazon among others. The AI-based robotic tech improves sortation at recycling centers, promising actionable insights to companies like Amazon that both package products, and consume recycled materials in their packaging

March 6, 2024

Sustainability

Provisional EU Law to Cut Most Single-Use Packaging

Europe also follows the FDA's lead in eliminating PFAS in packaging for food contact.

March 6, 2024

Conveying & accumulation

Start-up Distillery Uses Mass-Flow, Reflow, & Single Lane Accumulation

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor designs a system navigating pasteurizers, labeling, and packing for a unique 'bourbon shine' beverage.

March 5, 2024