July/Aug 2024

Packaging World July/Aug 2024

Global Brands Experiment with Advanced Recycled Materials

Cadbury, Churchill Container, L’Occitane, and PepsiCo explore advanced recycling technologies to help meet their commitments for less virgin plastic and more PCR material in their packaging.

August 2, 2024

The advent of advanced recycling technologies has opened up the potential for abundant new sources of PCR plastic.

Case/Tray Packing

Sugar Producer Emphasizes Flexibility in End-of-Line Solution

British Sugar replaces a 38-year-old end-of-line system with two tray packers and seven automatic palletizers with robotic layer preparation to handle a wide array of product formats and sizes.

July 25, 2024

British Sugar’s main product is granulated sugar, shown here in retail bags packed in a retail-ready tray-and-lid package.

Bagging & Pouching

Stonyfield is First with All-PE Spouted Pouch

The package, for Stonyfield’s YoBaby refrigerated yogurt, is a mono-material PE structure with PE cap that is recycle-ready per APR design guidelines when the infrastructure becomes available.

July 23, 2024

Stonyfield has become the first to use the CHEERCircle all-polyethylene spouted pouch.

New Look Chips Ahoy! Easily Distinguishable On a Shelf

Learn how a new flavor profile earns a new, improved image and look, followed closely by a separate design for a new gluten-free option.

July 15, 2024

Reversed packaging colors will help to make it immediately obvious which cookies are gluten free, and which are not, by a simple glance at the shelf.

Additives, coatings & inks

Nike Uses Algae-Based Ink to Decorate Footwear Box

Nike uses a carbon-negative black pigment-based ink made from renewable algae waste to decorate a footwear box for sub-brand ISPA.

July 15, 2024

Introduced in late spring 2024, the ISPA footwear box is flexo-printed with illustrations of various types of algae.

Elegance Meets Sustainability in Commemorative Bourbon Gift Pack

A gift pack for Bardstown Bourbon Co.’s investors features a cabinet-like structure with viewing window, uses premium materials and is designed with a second life in mind.

July 9, 2024

The limited-edition package from IPL and Bardstown featured a cabinet-like design with a large viewing window and a sturdy handle.

Containers & Closures

How Baileys Paper-Based Bottle is Made

An extraordinary network of inventors, developers, OEMs, and stakeholders emphasize ‘progress over perfection’ as they commercialize a breakthrough bottle.

July 8, 2024

Behind the latest paper bottle by Baileys.

Package Design and Trade Dress Infringement

Marketplace battles sometime become court battles.

July 8, 2024

Sterling Anthony

Digital Transformation

Mars' Digital Package Modeling Cuts Waste, Time to Market

Simulation solutions are supercharging the Mars packaging development process with potential to cut development time by up to 40%. Also, by March 2024, the software already had reduced the quantity of plastics purchased for testing by 246 tons.

July 2, 2024

Modeling and simulation tools have historically been used broadly within the aerospace and automotive industries for years, and now, these cutting-edge tools are beginning to be used for everyday products, including fast-moving consumer goods and packaging.

CPGs Struggle to Make the Grade on ‘Plastic Promises Scorecard’

As You Sow’s ‘2024 Plastic Promises Scorecard’ reveals that despite some progress, no company or industry is doing enough to combat plastic pollution.

June 20, 2024

None of the companies evaluated received a score in the A range (A+, A, or A-), and only nine of the 225 companies scored in the B range.

Containers & Closures

Kraft Heinz Transitions to 100% rPET for Mayo, Miracle Whip Bottles

The change will eliminate 14 million lb of virgin plastic, once the full range of Kraft Real Mayo and Miracle Whip sizes have switched to 100% rPET.

June 6, 2024

Consumers can find Kraft Real Mayo and Miracle Whip in the new 12- and 22-oz rPET bottles on U.S. retail shelves today.

Digital Transformation

Applesauce Maker Fortifies Supply Chain with Procurement Tech

Pouched applesauce producer Materne adds two carton suppliers to its network and cuts $1 million in annual costs by adopting procurement software.

April 25, 2024

Materne used procurement software on its latest carton RFP to bolster its supplier network and save $1 million per year.

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