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

Multipacks/handles/carriers

Sustainability

Paper-Based Carriers Help Coca-Cola Bottler Replace Plastic Multipacks

This Coca-Cola bottler says it will replace 200,000 lb. of plastic a year with the addition of a paper-based mulitpack solution. Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages partnered with WestRock to replace plastic multipack rings with paper in this application.

December 4, 2023

Sustainability

Coca-Cola HBC Austria Replacing Plastic Handles with Corrugated

Coca-Cola HBC Austria and sustainable fiber-based packaging company DS Smith PLC are collaborating to replace plastic handles for 1.5-liter PET soft drink multipacks with corrugated-based outer packaging.

September 21, 2023

Sustainability

PakTech Opens Contract Manufacturing Facility in Australia

PakTech

Having experienced significant organic growth in Australia in recent years, PakTech opened a contract manufacturing facility in Victoria and a proprietary partnership with Visy.

August 25, 2023

Emerging Brands

Petit Pot’s Design Refresh Leads to a Better Board

Sure, the pack redesign was an aesthetic improvement. But it also allowed the brand to consider more sustainable options, like PCR material in both the glass and the paperboard.

August 8, 2023

Flexible packaging

Live at interpack: Fiber-based Materials and Automation Advance

Whether in the form of rigid paperboard for beverage multipacks with automated applicators, or flexible paper barrier films in flow-wrapping or pouching operations, highly recyclable fiber-based packaging is on the rise in the name of sustainability.

May 10, 2023

Sustainability

Live at interpack: Krones Focuses on Climate Change

This week at interpack, Krones showcased solutions that contribute to its vision of focusing on climate change, food security for the world’s population, and responsible use of packaging materials.

May 4, 2023

Cartons and boxes

Ska Brewing's Paperboard Can Handles Use Automated Applicator

Ska Brewing out of Durango, Colo. installed a CanCollar Corsair provided by WestRock.

April 12, 2023

Sustainability

Mondi, ATS-Tanner Launch Paper Band for Food Bundles and Multipacks

Mondi Group

Mondi collaborated with ATS-Tanner to create a kraft paper band that can hold individually labeled products or bundles.

April 12, 2023

Multipacks/handles/carriers

Graphic Packaging Named One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2023

Graphic Packaging International

Graphic Packaging International’s passion for innovation lead to the fiber-based consumer packaging leader’s being on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

March 6, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Innovative New Sustainable Packaging at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovations. Here's what they found in sustainable packaging.

January 28, 2023

Contract Packaging

Bush Brothers' Tiered Strategy for CM/CP Partnerships

Robby Martin from Bush Brothers uses a layered approach to contract packaging on a new multipack project. He explains the testing and scaling phases of commercialization with several different CM&P partners, and why up-front transparency is crucial.

February 9, 2023

Plastics/resins

The Carlsberg Approach To Packaging Innovation

Facing a ‘mountain of technical challenges’ in its quest for a paper beer bottle, Carlsberg Group sees clearly that slow and steady wins the race.

December 7, 2022