Flexible packaging

COVID-19 Might Forever Change the Service Provider/End-User Relationship

Through the years, I have seen a variety of events and situations cause changes in the packaging industry.

July 6, 2020

Materials: Page 172

Protective/transport packaging

Innovative, Sustainable Strapping Band

TEUFELBERGER Fiber Rope Co.

TEUFELBERGER developed a new strapping solution especially for the printing and packaging industry, as well as the mailing and logistics industry. It is not only easy to operate, easy on the environment but also easy to handle.

July 1, 2020

Protective/transport packaging

Beer Cans' Premium Foil Lidding Adds Billboard Space While Appealing to Post-COVID Consumer

Romanian lager Albacher doesn't mention the pandemic specifically, but the timing of its new foil lidding, which adds billboard space and ensures a clean beer can surface, is fortuitous considering an increasingly safety-conscious consumer base.

June 29, 2020

Flexibles

FPA Publishes 2020–2021 Flexible Packaging Buyers Guide

Flexible Packaging Association

The Buyers Guide is a comprehensive listing of FPA members’ manufacturing and material supplying capabilities.

June 25, 2020

Flexibles

ePac Flexible Packaging Expands into Northern California

ePac Flexible Packaging

ePac Flexible Packaging announced plans to open its next facility near Sacramento, serving the Northern California area. The company has begun accepting orders, with fulfillment handled by other ePac U.S. locations until its manufacturing facility opens.

June 25, 2020

Containers

The Devil is in the Details of a New Brandy Bottle

Chilean wine brand Casillero del Diablo enters the spirits category, with a custom brandy bottle with shoulders shaped to resemble a Devil's horns and graphics.

June 24, 2020

Flexible packaging

Liquibox Launches New Website

Liquibox

Liquibox launches a new website as part of the company’s rebranding efforts.

June 23, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Amcor Extends Partnership Network by Joining World Wildlife Fund-led ‘ReSource: Plastic’

Amcor Flexibles North America

Amcor has joined the World Wildlife Fund-led activation hub, ReSource: Plastic, a global consortium of companies and organizations collaborating to keep waste out of the environment.

June 22, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

AIR Bottle for Personal Care Line Reduces Plastic by 50%

New personal care line, MyKirei by Kao, reflects the company’s Kirei, or ‘beautiful,’ Lifestyle Plan, with sustainable packaging that uses two pouches to create a ‘revolutionary’ rigid bottle.

June 22, 2020

Sustainability

Colbert Packaging Adapts TICCIT 2020 Program

Colbert Packaging Corp.

Schoolchildren sheltered-at-home can learn about the life cycle of paperboard containers due to the partnership of Colbert Packaging and the Paperboard Packaging Council’s “Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees” (TICCIT) program.

June 22, 2020

Sustainability

Perfume Carton the Result of Sustainable Thinking

New Finnish luxury fragrance brand selects a lightweight, durable paperboard for its new line of products that mirrors its brand concept and values.

June 19, 2020

Flexible packaging

Pregis Donates Insulated Packaging to Chicago Food Pantry

Pregis

Pregis recently donated more than 5,000 Penguin Pack insulated box liners to Lakeview Pantry, Chicago’s largest food pantry.

June 19, 2020

Additives, coatings & inks

Crown Brand-Building Packaging Wins INX Contest

INX International Ink Co.

Crown Brand-Building Packaging utilized the INX Metal Color Catalog to win the Colored by INX Can Design contest.

June 18, 2020