Digital Transformation

o9 Expands Its Next-Generation Category Management Solution for Grocery Retail

o9 integrates AI-powered analytics across financial, assortment, pricing, promotion, and supply planning to help grocers make faster, more connected, and data-driven decisions.

January 12, 2026

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Sustainability

Community Poll: Navigating 2026 Packaging Regulations

Answer to see where your peers stand on navigating packaging regulations.

January 12, 2026

Reusable/Returnable

r.World Cracks the Code on Waste at Live Events

Pioneering sustainability strategist and movement builder Michael Martin shares insights learned from founding and scaling r.World, a reusable foodware solutions company that serves entertainment venues, campuses, and corporations.

January 12, 2026

Reusable/Returnable

r.World

January 11, 2026

Workforce

BluePrint Automation Appoints Andy Stamp as Vice President of Sales and Marketing

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

Stamp brings deep experience in packaging, material handling, and customer-focused leadership to lead BPA’s North American sales and marketing strategy.

January 9, 2026

Converting equipment

ProMach Acquires American Holt, DMA Solution, and Pride Engineering from Arcline

ProMach

The acquisition brings AmHolt into ProMach’s Primary Packaging business, expanding its component design and manufacturing capabilities for CPG markets across North America.

January 9, 2026

Converting equipment

AmHolt

January 9, 2026

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Interactive Card Packaging for Fintech Startup

Burgopak and Placard create an interactive mailer featuring a holographic, dual-slide artboard design that transforms card unboxing into a branded, high-end experience.

January 9, 2026

Recycling

Bertolli’s Adds Squeeze Bottle that’s 100% rPET

Bertolli expands sustainability in the olive oil aisle with its Dress & Drizz squeeze bottle made from 100% recycled PET, combining a new user-focused design with a broader commitment to transitioning its PET packaging portfolio to rPET without impacting performance or price.

January 9, 2026

Flexible packaging

KNF FLEXPAK Corporation

Tamaqu, PA

January 8, 2026

Bio-based

Project Turns Agricultural Waste and Pruning Residues into Sustainable Bioplastics

AIMPLAS

The BIOVALSA project—led by AIMPLAS, funded by IVACE+i and ERDF funds and in which FoodUPV, Bioban, Viromii and Prime Biopolymers participate—reduces the high cost of transforming rice straw and citrus pruning waste into plant-based plastics.

January 8, 2026

Sustainability

Packaging Recycling Summit to be Held June 15-17, 2026 at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel, Rosemont, Illinois

Call for speakers now open: Industry leaders invited to share expertise on designing the circular future.

January 8, 2026

Recycling

Navigating the Next Wave of Packaging Regulation

AMERIPEN Policy Director and General Counsel Danielle Waterfield provides an update on current state and federal legislation as well as what to expect in 2026.

January 7, 2026