Flexibles

Colorful Seal Verification Technology for Medical Device Packaging

Winning an FPA Gold Award in Technical Innovation, Insura™ Seal Verification technology from Amcor Healthcare Packaging offers a “colorful” option for the countless medical device packages that undergo visual inspection.

March 12, 2020

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Podcasts

UnPACKed with PMMI PACK EXPO East Rewind Series

So you missed the most successful PACK EXPO East to date? No worries, unPACKed with PMMI has you covered.

March 11, 2020

E-commerce

LG Electronics Taps Customizable Kit for Unboxing, Brand Experience

Companies selling higher-end products--cosmetics, liquor, or consumer electronics, for instance--can struggle amid an over-saturation of “premium” messaging. LG broke the cycle with a unique package design kit from RRD.

March 11, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics Expand Partnership

Locus Robotics

DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics, manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, announced an expanded partnership that includes 10 new, nationwide deployments of the Locus AMR solution in 2020.

March 11, 2020

Sustainability

Direct-to-Can Digital Print for Craft Brewer

BrewBoard, a Cambridge-based independent craft brewer in the UK, has expanded its offering of exclusive and original craft beer can designs with direct-to-can digital printing technology.

March 11, 2020

Sustainability

Printpack Continues to Go Green

Printpack

Printpack signed a two-year contract with Collegiate Clean Energy to provide power for two plants in Virginia.

March 10, 2020

Secondary Packaging

Understanding Systematic Load Containment

There are two types of stretch film: cast and blown.

March 10, 2020

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

ProMach Strengthens Pharmaceutical Portfolio with Acquisition of Pharmaworks

ProMach

ProMach, a packaging machinery solutions manufacturer, announced it acquired Pharmaworks, a provider of blister packaging technology for the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and contract packaging industries.

March 10, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Flexible Film and the Circular Economy

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

March 10, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Milwaukee Brewers, S.C. Johnson, Model Circular Economy

By both reducing waste and educating the public about the possibility of a circular economy, this brand and baseball partnership sends a hopeful message.

March 9, 2020

Closures

The Manufacturing Institute to Honor Meena Banasiak, Phoenix Inc.

Phoenix

The Manufacturing Institute announced that it will award Meena Banasiak a Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Award on April 30 in Washington, D.C.

March 9, 2020

Flexible packaging

Stefan Pfundner Joins Liquibox's European Leadership Team

Liquibox

Pfundner joins Liquibox as Director of European Technical Services after nearly 10 years at Mondi Technical Films.

March 9, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Online Retailer Improves Pack-Station Ergonomics, Boosts Capacity

Coop.dk, a web-based grocery retailer, reduced uncomfortable lifting motions and taxing repetitive packout habits for workers at its Odense, Denmark distribution center.

March 6, 2020