Containers

Coffee creamer goes combidome

Building on the increasingly popular butter coffee creamer trend, Austin, TX-based Picnik has released its butter coffee creamer in convenient combidome 750-mL carton packs.

July 18, 2018

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 530

Sustainable Packaging

TerraCycle to unveil ‘Loop’

TerraCycle Founder and CEO Tom Szaky shares news on the upcycling company’s work creating a supply chain for ocean plastics and provides a peek at the upcoming launch of its transformational Loop platform.

July 17, 2018

Operational Excellence

CRISPR technology embarks on ‘Fantastic Voyage’: What is packaging’s role? Part II

The Broad Institute works with Addgene repository to advance CRISPR research, which involves packaging to accommodate various temperature demands.

July 17, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

McDonald’s, Starbucks to work toward recyclable/compostable cup

Food service giants join Closed Loop Partner consortium dedicated to finding a way to divert the 600 billion cups distributed globally each year from landfills and give them a second life.

July 17, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: Direct drive linear motor stages

Aerotech’s ECO-LM series direct-drive linear motor stages are optimized with high precision, noncontact linear encoders. The encoders enable minimum incremental motion to 10 nm with micrometer-level repeatability.

July 17, 2018

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Amazon’s PillPack acquisition could transform online pharmacy market

Move signals e-commerce giant’s interest in the health care sector. Meanwhile, FDA warns of online medicine scams.

July 16, 2018

Containers

McEwan’s Ale: What is old shall be new again

A packaging redesign for Scottish brand McEwan’s Ale contemporizes the line for modern beer drinkers while maintaining the heritage of the product for its ‘heartland’ consumers.

July 13, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Green packaging: A priority for consumers?

Survey looks at how consumers’ interest in sustainable packaging has changed and the extent to which this will affect brand owners’ success moving forward.

July 13, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

A global definition of plastics recyclability

Two international recycling organizations come together to create a global definition of recyclability—a step they say is integral to harmonizing the worldwide plastics industry.

July 13, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Bimba: End-of-arm tooling for collaborative robots

Bimba launches the Collaborative Robot Vacuum Tool (CRVT), which offers a new plug-and-play end effector option for collaborative robots.

July 13, 2018

Contract Packaging

Supply chain of the future: ‘Digitize or die’

An event sponsored by contract packaging/manufacturing supply chain software company Nulogy explores the necessity of digitization to meet industry challenges.

July 10, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Micvac nominated for SACCNY - Deloitte Green Award 2018

Swedish food tech company, Micvac, has been nominated for the prestigious annual SACCNY – Deloitte Green Award to be held during the 2018 Sustainology Summit in New York.

July 9, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

ERP solution keeps cheesemaker lean

Züger, a Swiss supplier of mozzarella and other cream cheese specialities, began using an end-to-end software solution from industry IT and software company CSB-System to keep processing and packaging at its factory as lean as possible.

July 9, 2018