Through the Line: Packaging and Processing

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

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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).

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. 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

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

Sustainability Progress in Bottle Closures

Innovation in bottle closures is helping the industry balance consumer needs, recycling efficiency, and mounting sustainability and regulatory pressures.

November 17, 2025

Prototype of a paper closure, supplied Blue Ocean Closures for an Absolut pilot.

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.

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, CPP

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

Filling, Capping & Closing

Turnkey Top Filling and Lidding

Filling and lidding for ready-to-eat salads and meals, fruit salads, nuts and more.

September 29, 2025

Through the Line Podcast: Paper Cup Melds Finnish Licorice with Forest Innovation

Kouvolan Lakritsi has partnered with Metsä Board to unveil a new recyclable and reclosable paper cup—a packaging innovation that embodies regenerative forestry, circular economy thinking, and co-creation at scale.

September 23, 2025

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Products

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Injection Molding Tooling

Husky's HyCAP 4.0 helps improve injection molding performance for beverage closures through enhanced precision, durability, flexibility, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Inverted Lidless Dispensing Closures

Heat Sealer