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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 549

Plastics/resins

IML for Tomato Packs

As demand for on-the-go packaging continues to grow, a new tomato container featuring in-mold labeling is catching consumers’ eyes in European markets.

March 6, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Nancy Wilson, CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions Awarded the STEP Ahead Award

Morrison Container Handling Solutions

Nancy Wilson, CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions was awarded a 2020 STEP Ahead Award from the Manufacturing Institute. Wilson will accept the award on April 30 in Washington, DC.

March 6, 2020

Flexibles

Compatibilizer Makes Pouch Recycle-Ready

Winner of a Gold Award for Packaging Excellence plus a Silver Award for Sustainability and another Silver for Technical Innovation in the annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition was a standup pouch for pet food treats.

March 5, 2020

Sustainability

DS Smith Opens Its First U.S. Recycling Plant

DS Smith Packaging Systems

DS Smith announced the opening of its first recycling facility in the United States. The Reading, Pa., facility will drive a circular economy designed to eliminate waste, encourage sustainability.

March 5, 2020

Operational Excellence

Retail Industry, CPGs Support Switch from UPC to Data-Rich Barcode

Retailers and brands support a transition from UPC to 2D barcodes, watermarks, or RFID tags to provide consumers with more detailed product information and transparency and retailers with more supply chain data.

March 5, 2020

Flexibles

AeroFlexx Named Top FPA Award Winner

Described as the “perfect e-commerce package” yet perfectly suitable for brick-and-mortar channels as well, the winner of the Highest Achievement Award in the 64th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition is AeroFlexx.

March 5, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Live From PACK EXPO East: Mono-Materials Still Trending

Here at the Philadelphia show, converters and machinery builders alike are taking notice and advantage of brand owners' rekindled love for easily recycled mono-materials films and resins.

March 4, 2020

Containers

Limited Edition Peanut Butter Jar Seeks to Settle GIF vs. JIF Debate

The J.M. Smuckers Co. designs a limited-edition jar for its peanut butter with its JIF logo transformed to GIF and a social media hashtag to spur consumers to join the debate.

March 4, 2020

Controls & machine components

Quest Industrial and ProMach Receive Sales Award from Fanuc Japan

Quest, a ProMach product brand

Fanuc Japan awarded Quest Industrial and ProMach with its 2019 Global Partner Sales Award.

March 4, 2020

Containers

Mischievous Dancing Duppy Adorns Spiced Rum Label

Rum brand extension builds on original bottle label graphics, with a playful, shapeshifting creature from Caribbean folklore, putting the focus on the exuberant nature of drinking rum.

March 3, 2020

Flexible packaging

TC Transcontinental Packaging Partners with T.M.E SpA

TC Transcontinental Inc.

TC Transcontinental Packaging announces the formation of a strategic partnership with T.M.E. SpA, a coffee packaging equipment solutions manufacturer, to deliver flexible packaging solutions for the coffee industry.

March 3, 2020

Flexible packaging

Shako Flexipack Pvt Ltd.

132 Champaklal Ind Estate

Sion East

Mumbai 400022

March 3, 2020