Digital Transformation

Addressing Operation and Maintenance Workforce Limitations

Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into practices to address workforce limitations and barriers of potential solutions.

February 7, 2025

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Bio-based

Avantium and EPC Partner to Scale PEF Production for 100+ Kiloton Plants

Avantium

Avantium collaborates with EPC Engineering & Technologies to advance PEF production, offering a licensed technology package for renewable and circular releaf polymer.

February 7, 2025

Recycling

Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury Switch to Paper Products

ThePackHub

See a few examples of paper product innovations from Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

February 7, 2025

Webinars

Building the Perfect Package

March 11, 2025

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Sustainability

Neopac is First European Tube Manufacturer to Achieve RecyClass EN 15343 Certification

Hoffmann Neopac AG

Company’s Debrecen, Hungary, facility passes rigorous audit, ensuring traceability of recycled plastic content.

February 6, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Glass Recycling Challenges

See your peers familiarity with the challenges of glass recycling.

February 5, 2025

Sustainability

Sustainable Solutions for Packaging & Processing: What to Expect at PACK EXPO Southeast

The newest PACK EXPO show heads to Atlanta arming attendees with tools and resources to solve sustainability challenges.

February 5, 2025

Robotics

Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint

According to a Packaging World survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.

February 5, 2025

Digital Transformation

The Future of Automation Sees Greater Human and Machine Collaboration

At Universal Robot’s Collaborate 2025 event, A3’s Alex Shikany reviewed the current state of the automation market and provided a glimpse of what to expect in the coming year, and beyond.

February 4, 2025

Recycling

Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization

Driven by consumer demand for more sustainable packaging, CPGs turn to new materials such as paper and bio-based/compostable plastic, but higher costs, material complexity, and other limitations may slow adoption.

February 3, 2025

Package Design

Redefining Premium in Pet Food & Beverages Through Packaging

As beliefs around what constitutes a ‘premium’ product evolve in the pet food and beverage industries, so too must packaging change to communicate the value of these products.

February 3, 2025

Digital Transformation

Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?

New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?

January 31, 2025

Recycling

How2Recycle Releases New Guidelines for Use with Changes to Recyclability for Two Formats in the U.S.

Classifications upgrade composite canisters with steel bottoms from "Not Yet Recyclable" to "Check Locally" and downgrade aerosol cans from "Widely Recyclable" to "Check Locally."

January 31, 2025