Sustainability

Refill System Lets Consumers ‘Crack, Snap, and Clean’ in 10 Seconds

Plant-based cleaning products company Puracy evolves its refill packaging to an aluminum-can format and reusable bottle that eliminate the time, mess, and hassle of existing refill products.

June 23, 2023

Rigid: Page 16

Sustainability

Distillery 98 Brings Paper Bottle Stateside for Vodka

Florida-based micro-distillery Distillery 98 opts for sustainable packaging, with a paper-based bottle for its small-batch, locally sourced Half Shell Vodka.

June 21, 2023

Home

NJM to Debut Specially Designed Washing Carts at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

NJM Packaging, a ProMach product brand

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Booth #C-3225! NJM will debut its specialized Steelco Pharma washing carts are designed to improve the cleaning of product contact parts and protect product quality.

June 20, 2023

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Brandon Hall Appointed Director Consumer at Optima Machinery Corporation

Optima Machinery Corporation

With Hall’s appointment, Optima strengthens its sales of filling and packaging equipment for the consumer goods market in North America.

June 19, 2023

Sustainability

Tellus Products' Plant Fiber Products Earns BPI Certification

Tellus Products

Tellus Products’ sustainable plant fiber tableware products are now certified by BPI, confirming that the products contain no added PFAS.

June 16, 2023

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Rohrer Makes Key Appointments to Its Leadership Team

Rohrer Corporation

Rohrer Corp., named Ed Steele president, Print Solutions and Danny Teixeira Vice president & general manager, Thermoforming Solutions.

June 14, 2023

Closures

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants PulPac Patents for Its Dry Mold Fiber

PulPac

One is related to the basic process of dry molded fiber, the second is related specifically to bottle forming, and the third concerns the layering of the cellulose web in the dry molded fiber process.

June 13, 2023

Sustainability

Absolut Commercializes First-ever Single-mold Paper Bottles at Tesco

Absolut Vodka says it’s the first global spirits brand to sell single-mold paper-based bottles commercially in the UK, part of its journey to create a fully bio-based bottle.

June 13, 2023

Sustainability

Glass Imaginings: Small, Modular Plants; Biodegradable/Biorecyclable Containers

Arguably the oldest packaging material, glass is exuding youthful vigor in its recent explorations of new (some would say revolutionary) manufacturing technologies, formats, material characteristics, and product applications.

June 7, 2023

Flexible packaging

Selig Group Launches New Website

Selig Group

The new website consolidates Selig’s container sealing and venting technologies as well as its flexible packaging solutions. A new feature is an all-inclusive Solutions Guide.

June 5, 2023

Sustainability

Label-less Bottle Puts Focus on Wine, Not Waste

New wine brand Crate forgoes bottle labels to reduce packaging waste, creating a sparse but still eye-catching package that complements the brand’s sustainable positioning.

May 31, 2023

Containers

New Tub for Domino and C&H Sugar Changes the Shape of Things

ASR Group reduces the use of plastic in its Easy Baking Tub by 28% for its Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar brands by moving from a round to square package.

May 22, 2023

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

One Retirement, Two New Sales Managers for Spee-Dee

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc.

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery announced that long-time Regional Sales Manager, Rick Chrzan, has retired. In place of Chrzan, the company promoted Danny Harmann and welcomed Todd Kasik to the role of Regional Sales Manager.

May 10, 2023