Cartons and boxes

Connected Platform for Cartons Taps into Industry 4.0

Tetra Pak showcases its connected packaging platform, which brings benefits to producers, retailers, and shoppers.

September 20, 2019

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Cartons and boxes

Aussie Iced Coffee Aseptically Packed

Bluestone Lane of Australia is releasing its first ready-to-drink iced coffee beverage in SIG’s combismile packaging.

September 11, 2019

Cartons and boxes

Baby teething biscuits bloom on shelf with a bold, colorful design

Differentiating its organic teething biscuit product from the competition, Sprout Organic Foods uses bold, appetizing colors and fruit and veggie illustrations to communicate its unique positioning.

August 31, 2019

Cartons and boxes

Grass-fed organic milk goes aseptic

In what’s described as a first, 100% grass-fed organic milk is now available in shelf-stable, single-serve cartons.

August 30, 2019

Cartons and boxes

Gut Connection Launches with a Stand-Out Package Design

Country Life enters the emerging prebiotic category with the launch of Gut Connection, which the company calls a revolutionary range of supplements that leverage the latest scientific findings that connect the gut and its microbiome to individual aspects of health.

August 29, 2019

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robotic partition inserter breaks bottleneck for winery

Washington state’s Columbia Crest winery replaces an outdated mechanical partition inserter with a robotic one that more than doubles the speed of the bottling line.

August 12, 2019

Cartons and boxes

Infant milk formula debuts in gas-tight composite can

DMK Baby saw this package, which is assembled on site at the food manufacturer’s facility, as the perfect format for a new line of powdered infant milk formula. Consumers are definitely taking notice.

August 1, 2019

Sustainability

Sustainably-sourced chocolate packaged in equally green paperboard

Finnish confectionery selects lightweight paperboard with sensory properties from sustainably managed forests for its new line of premium chocolate bars.

July 31, 2019

Cartons and boxes

Redesign enhances appetite appeal of organic frozen foods brand

A new package design for Beetnik Foods aims to improve the product’s shelf presence and overall appetite appeal while leveraging the USDA Organic label in a more prominent space.

July 30, 2019

Secondary Packaging

‘Safe-tea’ palletizing of capsules at Nestlé

Manual palletizing at Nestle’s Swiss facility producing tea capsules is replaced with two user-friendly collaborative robot palletizers custom-designed to ensure pallet stability and worker safety.

July 21, 2019

Secondary Packaging

All the right (robotic) moves for fine pralines

A modular system with six sub-machines and a custom vibration conveyor gently packs pralines into trays and cartons at 500 packs/min.

July 19, 2019

Sustainability

Cartons’ place in packaging

Horst Bittermann, President of the European carton association Pro Carton, shares insights on the sustainability of cartons, their use in e-commerce, and new carton technologies.

July 11, 2019

E-commerce

Cepac: E-commerce packaging solutions

Cepac launches a line of packaging solutions for the e-commerce market that feature an innovative assembly mechanism across the range, with tear-tape opening and double-sided tape, making the boxes re-sealable as required.

July 10, 2019