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Packaging World
Jan/Feb 2025
In This Issue
Workforce
The Packaging Workforce: Hiring, Retention, and Training in a Changing Industry
Packaging industry companies are finding challenges in finding, keeping, and training workers to handle increasingly advanced machinery.
February 7, 2025
Robotics
Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint
According to a Packaging World Survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.
February 5, 2025
Recycling
Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization
Driven by consumer demand for more sustainable packaging, CPGs turn to new materials such as paper and bio-based/compostable plastic, but higher costs, material complexity, and other limitations may slow adoption.
February 3, 2025
Digital Transformation
Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?
New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?
January 31, 2025
Bio-based
Compostable Seafood Shipper Insulation Supports Brand’s Mission
D2C business Wild Alaskan Company ships its sustainably harvested, wild seafood using bio-based foam insulation that is home and industrially compostable as well as water soluble.
January 27, 2025
Cartoning
Palm-Sized Carton Delivers 180 Doses of Skin Care
Nwär Skin’s new Seid skin care products are encapsulated in tiny, dissolvable strips packaged in a paperboard carton. While the product reduces overconsumption, the package ensures recycling.
January 24, 2025
Recycling
U.S. PET Bottle Recycling Rate Reaches 30-Year High
According to NAPCOR’s ‘2023 PET Recycling Report,’ the U.S. PET bottle recycling rate increased 4% from 2022 and is the highest rate since 1996.
January 22, 2025
Package Design
Seafood Branding is ‘a Love Letter from Alaska’
Wild Alaskan Company’s executive creative director, Cliff Borress, shares the strategy behind the D2C seafood business’s new Alaska-inspired packaging graphics.
January 20, 2025
Recycling
AMERIPEN's Packaging Policy Update & 2025 Outlook
In this annual Q&A, AMERIPEN Policy and Membership Director Rob Keith and the association’s principle lobbyist, Andy Hackman of Serlin Haley, provide updates on current state and federal packaging policy along with insights on what to expect in the coming
January 16, 2025
Labeling
5 Bold New Administration Predictions
There could be packaging-related developments under the new administration, especially the FDA, including potential regulatory changes and updated labeling requirements.
January 14, 2025
Bio-based
Brown is the New Green: Lamb Weston’s Recyclable Paper Fry Bag
Lamb Weston develops a paper bag for its frozen French fries that offers a grease and moisture barrier as well as durability and machinability, while still being recyclable.
January 14, 2025
Package Design
Packaging as a Brand-Builder
Personnel, although valuable, are replaceable. But brands are meant to endure.
January 14, 2025
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