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Changeover on the cartoner from 4-count to 12-count takes about 40 minutes.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Top 15 of 2025, #13: New Canning, In-house Shrink Sleeve Labeling, Distinguish Craft Brewer
The #13 most clicked article of 2025: The Shop Beer Co. decommissioned one canning line and replaced it with another. Also part of its manufacturing mix is an in-house shrink sleeve labeling operation just down the street.
December 23, 2025

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Beer
Top 15 of 2025, #14: Brewery Builds Runway for Growth into Tight Space
The #14 most clicked article of 2025: With a new rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart, a nearly all-new packaging line is now humming along at 100 cans per minute. Future-proofing the line meant building in a lot more capacity than is needed—for now, at least.
December 22, 2025
Shrink sleeves being 'shot' onto awaiting bright cans, pictured here traveling into the steam tunnel.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Marchesini Group and AST Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Aseptic Production Capacity and Expand Global Market Presence
Marchesini Group
Partnership aims to deliver more advanced, integrated aseptic fill-finish solutions for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers worldwide.
December 16, 2025
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Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Tropicana Weathers Blowback from Package Redesign
The number 3 most downloaded episode: Changing packaging design without upsetting the consumer can be challenging to navigate. Tropicana once again redesigned packaging in such a way that cost the company 19% in sales. Packaging World spoke to expert Brent Lindberg of Fuseneo, designer of the legacy pack that's being replaced.
December 16, 2025
Through the Line: Packaging and Processing
Containers & Closures
McCormick's Old Bay Leads Charge of Spices Back to Tin
McCormick's Old Bay, and newer clean-label players, are bringing spices back to printed tin, pairing shelf impact and vintage charm with potential sustainability upside as EPR pressures grow.
December 12, 2025
Old Bay Seasoning in tin: McCormick’s Old Bay returns to its classic printed tin canister—iconic blue-and-yellow graphics with a red lid—shown here with front panel and back label (nutrition facts/recipes).
Package design
Science-backed Women’s Health Essentials in Packs Designed for Every Hormonal Stage
Biologica launches in art deco tins meant to be displayed as part of a daily ritual.
December 9, 2025
While the sachets makes it easy for on-the-go consumption, and the artistic tins (when set out as a display) offer that daily reminder to use the product, the real goal and pride in this project for Joey and Liz Zwillinger is the art.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Krones to Open North American Logistics Center, Expand Manufacturing
Krones, Inc.
Krones Inc. announces plans to open a 240,000‑sq‑ft Logistics Center in Franklin, Wisconsin to consolidate regional shipping and warehousing operations, support local manufacturing expansion, and enhance automated order fulfillment.
December 5, 2025
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Filling, Capping & Closing
Coke Bottler Cuts Co-Packing, Adds Aseptic Line for Fuze Tea, Powerade
This Sicily bottler for The Coca-Cola Company’s products brings sensitive beverages in-house, reduces transport impacts, and gains fast changeovers and format flexibility with a complete aseptic PET line supplied by Sidel and processing support from Tetra Pak.
December 3, 2025
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Controls & Machine Components
Linear Transport System Syncs 120 Axes for Ultra-Fast Capping
A new cap applicator from Tetra Pak uses the Beckhoff XTS linear servo transport system to deliver 25,000 precisely sealed cartons per hour, tripling output over conventional portion-package cappers that run at 9,000/hour, while combining digital control with flexible, high-speed motion.
November 12, 2025
Tetra Pak® test packs with plastic caps glued on.
Recycling
Colgate & Amazon Turned Recycling Data into Insight; Now Other CPGs Can, Too
Pilots with Colgate-Palmolive and Amazon helped shape Glacier’s new DataStream platform, a subscription tool launched today that lets CPGs verify recyclability performance and close the loop between packaging design and real sortation and recovery outcomes.
November 4, 2025
Glacier’s AI system identifies a Colgate toothpaste tube on a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) conveyor line. The system uses optical and material recognition to distinguish HDPE tubes from other plastics, verifying how often they are captured in the recycling stream.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Troubleshooting Continuous-Thread Closures
You will need to put on your thinking cap if you seek to manage the many facets of capping.
October 23, 2025
Sterling Anthony
Bio-based
Great Earth Expands Use of Fiber-Based Closures to Entire Line
Swedish nutraceutical brand rolls out paper screw caps across all supplement jars, a first large-scale commercial use of Blue Ocean Closures’ molded fiber technology.
October 17, 2025
Great Earth’s full supplement line now features molded fiber screw caps developed with Blue Ocean Closures, replacing plastic across more than 70 products.
Filling, Capping & Closing
BW Packaging Integrates Its BW Filling & Closing, BW Flexible Systems, and BW Integrated Systems Divisions into a Single Organization
BW Packaging (a Barry-Wehmiller Company)
The transition unleashes new opportunities for greater collaboration, innovation and integrated packaging solutions.
October 14, 2025
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