Sustainability

Aptar On-Track to Meet Its 2025 Sustainability Commitments

Aptar Food + Beverage’s SimpliCycle recyclable valve technology is helping it meet its 2025 sustainability commitments.

October 26, 2020

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 504

Containers

Mindful Relaxation Guides Bottle Design for Wine Cocktail

Sleek aluminum bottle with nature-inspired graphics offers an alternative to traditional glass packaging for a new wine cocktail geared toward consumers practicing a healthy lifestyle.

October 26, 2020

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Italian Converter Augments Digital Printing of Corrugated

LIC Packaging, a leading European manufacturer of consumer packaging and display solutions, announced it has purchased a new high-volume inkjet HP PageWide T1190 Press.

October 26, 2020

Palletizing/depalletizing

Orion to Offer Virtual Pallet Wrapping Demonstrations at PACK EXPO Connects

Orion, a ProMach brand

Orion Packaging Systems, a division of ProMach, will demonstrate its latest innovations in stretch-wrapping technology via virtual presentations at PACK EXPO Connects.

October 26, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Bacardí Goes All-In on 100% Biodegradable Spirits Bottle

The new 100% biodegradable bottle isn't just a prototype or regional rollout. It will replace 80 million plastic bottles–3,000 tons of plastic–currently produced by Bacardi across its portfolio of brands every year.

October 23, 2020

Sustainability

New Wine Cottle is Wildly Exuberant

Pioneering low-cal, low-ABV, flavored wine company Fun Wine introduces its Hard Bubbly line in an aluminum bottle with vibrant artwork that pulses with a Miami vibe.

October 23, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Bunting Catalogs Available in Spanish

Bunting

Bunting announces it will offer all of its new 2020 catalogs in both English and Spanish as PDF downloads from its website.

October 23, 2020

Flexibles

ePac Flexible Packaging Announces ePacConnect

ePac Flexible Packaging

Innovative company plans to digitize all packaging to connect brands with consumers.

October 22, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Ultimation Industries Launches Industry 4.0 Conveyor Retrofit Kits Utilizing Interroll Technology

Ultimation Industries

Ultimation Industries launches the 4.0 conveyor retrofit kits utilizing Interroll’s industry 4.0 DC Platform technology consisting of upgraded controls and EC5000 RollerDrives.

October 22, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Burger King and Tim Hortons to Pilot Reusable Containers Through Loop

The QSRs will be testing a closed-loop program for cups and food containers that will give guests the option to pay a deposit for the professionally sanitized packaging, refunded upon return.

October 22, 2020

Sustainability

Ardagh Group Wins Sustainability Award

Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group won a Sustainability Award in the inaugural “Pre-Commercialised Innovation” category for its method of producing re-meltable briquettes from the fine particle glass rejected during the recycling process.

October 22, 2020

Sustainability

Aluminum Wine Bottle Delivers Rugged Luxury

New wine products aluminum bottles are geared toward a number of different lifestyles and occasions. Revelshine premium wine is ‘designed to be taken off the beaten path.’

October 22, 2020

Additives, coatings & inks

Spartech Announces New Appointments

Spartech Corporation

Spartech announced the promotions of Matt Gisoni to Vice President of Supply Chain and Sourcing, and Dave Gorenc to Vice President of Manufacturing.

October 21, 2020