Sustainable Packaging

Live at PACK EXPO East: Starch-based, Compostable E-comm Panels Maintain Cold Chain for Meal Kits

Food & beverage has lagged other products in e-commerce adoption since the cold chain is hard to maintain. Also, packaging that does keep cold temps may not match brands' sustainability goals. But this starch-based solution is compostable.

March 21, 2022

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Sustainability

Novelis to Build $50 Million Recycling and Casting Center in South Korea

Novelis

Facility will reduce Novelis' carbon emissions by more than 420,000 tons a year.

March 21, 2022

Sustainability

Rethinking Barrier Layers: Colgate Tubes & Paper-based Caps/Closures

Even among two very different applications—one a recyclable HDPE/EVOH Colgate toothpaste tube, the other a molded-fiber cap soon entering the market—the common element is in the need to rethink a barrier layer.

March 18, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Dawn One-Handed Dispenser, Pharma Capsule Dispenser, and Bio-Based, Ergonomical Coffee Cup Lid

ThePackHub

See a few examples of packaging innovations that are making life easier, from ThePackHub’s February Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

March 18, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

Aaron Jones Named President and CEO of Bastian Solutions

Toyota Automated Logistics

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, promoted Aaron Jones from President to President and CEO effective April 1, 2022.

March 18, 2022

Cartoning

Cama North America Adds Carl Roeder and Amber Griggs to its Sales Force

Cama North America

Carl Roeder, Northwest Regional Sales Manager, and Amber Griggs, Southwest Regional Sales Manager will assist customers in their respective regions with case packing, cartoning, robotics, and sleeving applications.

March 18, 2022

Plastics/resins

TricorBraun Acquires Neville and More

TricorBraun

TricorBraun’s acquisition of UK rigid packaging manufacturer Neville and More will further expand its presence in Europe and around the world.

March 17, 2022

Digital Transformation

Krones Combines its Digitalization Activities

Krones, Inc.

Krones created Krones.digital bringing together all groupwide resources in the fields of digitalization and automation in order to adopt an overarching approach to developing solutions primarily for gathering, analyzing and utilizing production data.

March 17, 2022

Cartoning

SOMIC Packaging Hires Ken Williams as Service and After Sales Manager

SOMIC Packaging, Inc.

Williams will be responsible for all machine installations and managing the Service team that is being expanded, he reports to CEO Peter Fox.

March 17, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Waste Free Products Turn to Packaging To Cut Consumer Waste

As brands shift their focus to more sustainable packaging, people like Tangie by Waste Free Products are figuring out how to eliminate packaging waste entirely.

March 16, 2022

Additives, coatings & inks

Videojet Expands Ink Portfolio for Continuous Inkjet Printers

Videojet Technologies Inc.

Videojet Technologies’ V4236 halogen-free ink is now qualified for use in the Videojet 1280 continuous inkjet (CIJ) printer, and its high-adhesion Videojet V4230 ink is available for use in the high-speed Videojet 1880 CIJ printer.

March 16, 2022

Robotics

Orics to Showcase Delta Robot at PACK EXPO East

Orics Industries, Inc.

Orics will be showcasing its DS-4 stainless-steel delta robot at PACK EXPO East. Meet the Orics and STXI Motion team at Booth 802.

March 16, 2022

Sustainability

Self-Refrigerated, Cloud-Based Shipper Set to Tackle Return Logistics

Ember Technologies and Cardinal Health partnered on the shipper which offers unique ‘return to sender’ technology. Cardinal Health plans to launch a customer pilot for the Ember Cube in 2022.

March 16, 2022