Sustainable Packaging

Innovative New Sustainable Packaging Materials at PACK EXPO

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023 in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in Sustainable Packing Materials.

February 20, 2024

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Sustainability

Metsä Board Paperboard Earns Top Recyclability Rating

Metsä Board

How2Recycle pre-qualifies Metsä Board FBB and WKL Paperboard grades as Widely Recyclable.

February 27, 2024

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Digital Printing Transforms Small Pet Select’s Packaging

For D2C Small Pet Select, what was once an understated kraft shipper is now a highly decorated, interactive branding device with beautiful colors, graphics, and messaging that enhances the consumer's unboxing experience with real porch appeal.

February 19, 2024

Sustainability

DS Smith and Mondelēz Renew Partnership for Sustainable Packaging in Europe

DS Smith Packaging Systems

Sustainable packaging provider DS Smith secures exclusive 5-year deal to package Mondelēz snacks, including Oreo, with a focus on reduced plastics and net zero emissions.

February 13, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Do You Know Packaging Material Recyclability?

Quiz 2 of 3. Test your recycling smarts with this short quiz. Each answer has a video explanation from our friends at LRS, with a video facility tour at the end!

February 2, 2024

Recycling

Paperboard Packaging Council Promotes Emily Leonczyk to Executive Director and Vice President

Paperboard Packaging Council

Leonczyk will oversee PPC's operations and will focus on sustainability to promote paperboard as a renewable and recyclable packaging material.

January 3, 2024

Workforce

Sabert Corporation Names Paul McCann new CEO

Sabert Corporation

McCann will lead the next phase of growth at the food packaging company as Sabert founder and chief executive officer Albert Salama shifts into the role of Executive Chairman.

January 3, 2024

Recycling

TSS Receives U.S. Patent for First Curbside Recyclable Insulated Box Liner

Thermal Shipping Solutions

The Thermal Shipping Solutions Renewliner PET-based shipping carton for cold temperatures is completely recyclable, lighter in weight and less expensive to produce.

December 20, 2023

Cartons and boxes

New Paper Carton with Venting Keeps Fried Chicken Crispy

To improve upon the crispiness and flavor of its grab-and-go Fried Chicken for Kroger, Home Chef revamps its recipe and develops a new paper package with venting.

December 20, 2023

Flexible packaging

Sleigh The Competition With Your Holiday Branding

Three tips on how to connect with your consumers during the holidays by creating festive, must-have seasonal packaging designs.

December 14, 2023

Bio-based

Sustainability ‘Baked in’ to New Paper Packaging for Frozen Bread

European baker Lantmännen Unibake switches from a plastic bag for its frozen bread shipments, integrating a paper barrier into its corrugated case instead.

November 21, 2023

Cartons and boxes

Packaging Innovation Conjures a Gin Bottle Inside an Ice Block

Expertly executed printing techniques on a crisp white bleached paperboard bring to life a unique graphic design of a bottle frozen inside an ice block for Finland-sourced 1000 Lakes gin.

October 30, 2023

Sustainability

Company Forms ‘Cult of Clean’ with Refillable, Reusable Cleaner Packaging

Cleancult helps consumers become a ‘no-plastic fanatic,’ offering refillable, reusable containers and product refills in a gabletop carton for its cleaning products.

October 10, 2023