P&G's Crest Pro Health four-count value packs are in an all-paper blister using Atlantic Packaging cardstock, formed on Starview blister equipment.
Recycling
Paper-based Blister-style Packs Make a Splash at PACK EXPO Southeast
A subset of the paperization trend, some brand owners are moving from thermoformed plastic trays with cardstock backing to fully fiber-based blister packs. The trend was noticeable at PACK EXPO Southeast, with both materials & machinery vendors involved.
March 10, 2025

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Robotics
Rain Supercharges Throughput with Palletization, Automation
Alongside a host of other recent packaging automation improvements, cobot palletization has helped Rain Pure Mountain Spring speed up packaging line operations while allowing for labor reallocation.
March 5, 2025
RAIN Palletizer Cover Image
Containers & Closures
Mars Pantry Jars Use 100% PCR
Mars introduces a pantry jar for M&M’s, Skittles, and Starburst candies that is made from 100% PCR from mechanically recycled plastic.
February 25, 2025
The 100% recycled-content, easy-grip jars are widely recyclable and come in three sizes: 60, 81, and 87 oz. Image courtesy of Berry Global
Beer
Market Garden Builds Long Runway for Growth into Tight Quarters
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.
February 21, 2025
Twelve-head rotary filling is immediately followed by a three-head seamer for low oxygen pickup.
Beer
New Canning, In-house Shrink Sleeve Labeling, Distinguish Craft Brewer
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.
February 18, 2025
The Shop Beer Co. Cartoner
Containers & Closures
Massilly Group to Acquire Assets of Hoffmann Neopac’s Tin Business
Hoffmann Neopac AG
Hoffmann Neopac signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell the assets of its tin business to the Massilly Group, marking a strategic shift towards its core focus on tube packaging.
February 13, 2025
Hoffmann Massilly Header
Controls & Machine Components
Automation Unscrambles Bottling Chaos
Pace Packaging harnessed flexible automation in a versatile robotic unscrambling and orienting solution that delivers industry-leading throughput in an ultra-compact machine footprint.
February 11, 2025
Overhead view of the patent-pending in-motion vacuum transfer system feature on the VersaSort.
Sustainability
Neopac is First European Tube Manufacturer to Achieve RecyClass EN 15343 Certification
Hoffmann Neopac AG
Company’s Debrecen, Hungary, facility passes rigorous audit, ensuring traceability of recycled plastic content.
February 6, 2025
Recyclass 15343 Certification Neopac
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Paolo Pozzi is New Chief Service Officer of Steriline
Steriline
Steriline appoints Pozzi as CSeO to lead its after-sales service and customer support in aseptic processing lines for pharmaceutical injectables and ophthalmics.
January 30, 2025
Paolo Pozzi Chief Service Officer
Filling, Capping & Closing
Sidel Launches Aseptic Knowledge Centre on its Website
Sidel Group
The Aseptic Knowledge Centre offers manufacturers access to case studies, expert insights, and technical information on aseptic packaging solutions, with a focus on enhancing food safety, improving operational efficiency.
January 24, 2025
Aseptic Laboratories Sidel
Package Design
Tropicana Weathers Blowback from ‘Shrinkquivelence,’ Pack Redesign
Infamous in pack design circles for a similar occurrence in 2008, Tropicana once again redesigned packaging in such a way that cost the company 19% in sales. We spoke to expert Brent Lindberg of Fuseneo, designer of legacy pack that's being replaced.
January 21, 2025
Tropciana's new bottle
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel, Returns to Retail
Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.
January 8, 2025
The latest dishwasher pod formulation from Dropps, UltraWash Plus uses its paperboard packaging to communicate product efficacy by depicting a Pyrex-style glass baking dish, often considered to be the toughest to clean with baked-on food. The company says Ultrawash Plus is the first-to-market USDA-certified bio-based multi-chamber dishwasher detergent.
Containers & Closures
Top Articles of 2024, #1: Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project
The #1 most clicked article of 2024: A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react?
January 5, 2025
All small PET bottles in 12 oz, 16.9 oz and 20 oz will be lightweighted from 21 g to 18.5 g for all The Coca-Cola Company’s sparkling brands, Minute Maid Refreshments, and Minute Maid Aguas Frescas in the U.S. and Canada.
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