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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 145

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

Package Printing

Colored by INX Can Design Contest Open for Entries

INX International Ink Co.

The sixth annual contest invites brand owners, designers, marketers, and metal decorators to showcase their creative can designs using at least one INX Color Catalog color.

February 3, 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

Digital Transformation

Solutions to Legacy Equipment and Data Systems Integration

Packaging and processing professionals provide insight into integrating older technology with data systems.

January 31, 2025

Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

Enercon Industries Releases Video

Enercon Industries Corp.

Enercon Industries' video explores the company's 50-year history as a distributor in induction cap sealing and surface treating, showcasing its core values and headquarters.

January 31, 2025

Bio-based

Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack Introduce Utilize Bio-Based Materials

ThePackHub

See a few examples of bio-based innovations from Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

January 31, 2025

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Paolo Pozzi is New Chief Service Officer of Steriline

Steriline

Steriline appoints Pozzi as CSeO to lead its after-sales service and customer support in aseptic processing lines for pharmaceutical injectables and ophthalmics.

January 30, 2025

Conveying & accumulation

Morrison Container Handling Solutions Appoints Craig Guzek as Midsouth Sales Manager

Morrison Container Handling Solutions

Craig Guzek will cover Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, focusing on Morrison Container Handling Solutions' growing custom equipment portfolio.

January 30, 2025