Sustainability

BASF and Other Brands Innovate Package Design Using Natural Materials

See a few examples of packaging made with natural and compostable materials by BASF and others from ThePackHub’s August Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

September 6, 2022

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Sustainable Packaging

IoPP Column: Let’s Work Together on Sustainability

Sustainability is about preserving resources for future generations.

September 6, 2022

Sustainability

Keith Tornes Appointed Managing Director for DS Smith

DS Smith Packaging Systems

DS Smith appointed Keith Tornes as Managing Director, paper, forestry, and recycling for North America.

September 6, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

Specialty Equipment Announces Exclusive U.S. Distribution Agreement with Sneyders

Specialty Equipment

Specialty Equipment, a manufacturer of drum filling, conveying, and palletizing systems entered into a strategic partnership as the sole distributor of Sneyders bottle and jerrycan filling and capping machines in the U.S.

September 6, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Dasani Launches in 100% rPET, Sprite Switches to Clear Plastic

In pursuit of a World Without Waste, Coca-Cola introduces a new bottle made from 100% rPET for Dasani water and moves from green to clear plastic for Sprite to improve recycling of the bottle.

September 6, 2022

Home

ACMA to Showcase Sustainable Packaging, Machinery Designed for Confectionery Applications at PACK EXPO International

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booth 2501! ACMA, a Coesia company will exhibit its CW 800 wrapper for spherical chocolates equipped with OptiMate Premium (Coesia proprietary PLC) and Ecoshell sustainable packaging designed for confectionery markets.

September 6, 2022

Flexible packaging

Plastchim-T, Bayshore Films Form Distributor Partnership in North America

Plastchim-T

Plastchim-T announces an exclusive distributor partnership with Bayshore Films LLC for its PEoneer® range of BOPE films.

September 6, 2022

Sustainability

Cartoner Ushers Bumble Bee Out of Plastic Shrink, Into Paperboard Multipacks

An enterprise-wide focus on sustainability pushed Bumble Bee Seafood to reinvent multipacking in a more readily recyclable, paperboard format. A 'Rolls Royce' of a cartoner certainly helped.

September 2, 2022

Sustainability

Smithers to Host E-Pack US 2022

Smithers

Smithers, a testing, consulting, information, and compliance services, will host the 5th Annual E-Pack US 2022—Gaining Insight on Today’s Ecommerce Packaging at the Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown Hotel on October 19-20.

August 31, 2022

Robotics

Delicate Strudel Dough Picked and Packed in Enclosure-Free Robot Cell

At Weinbergmaier GmbH in Vienna, Sissi and Franz—as their human operators have quaintly named the two Stäubli robots—pack high-quality strudel dough in perfect synchronization within a cycle time of 1.5 sec.

August 31, 2022

Robotics

Columbia/Okura Celebrates 1000th Palletizing System

Columbia/Okura LLC

Columbia/Okura LLC recently celebrated the milestone of shipping its 1,000th robotic palletizer.

August 31, 2022

Containers

Bud Talks Multipacks, OEM Payment Terms, and Can/Bottle Mix

Ken VonderHaar, Global Director, Can Division at Anheuser-Busch, works closely with OEM and machine builder partners. Packaging World visited Anheuser-Busch headquarters recently as part of PMMI’s Roadshow Series, hosted by nearby Barry-Wehmiller, and sat

August 30, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

FPA Publishes 2022 State of the Flexible Packaging Industry Report

Flexible Packaging Association (FPA)

U.S. flexible packaging industry continues to experience positive and steady growth.

August 30, 2022