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Package Design
3D-Printed Molds Speed New Unilever Bottle Designs to Market
For Unilever, bottles that are stretch blow molded with a 3D printed tool are nearly indistinguishable from the final product produced through traditional metal tooling processes, and get product to market more quickly.
April 18, 2024
Bottles produced with a 3D printed tool are nearly indistinguishable from the final product produced through traditional metal tooling processes. From left to right: the two-part mold 3D printed with Rigid 10K Resin, a bottle produced with the mold 3D printed with Rigid 10K Resin, a bottle produced with a metal mold, and a labeled prototype bottle for customer testing.
Recycling
Live at SPC Impact: Collaboration's the Key to Unlocking Circularity
It's starting to seem that supply chain stakeholder collaboration might be the key to unlocking the circular economy of packaging materials.
April 2, 2024
GreenBlue's Paul Nowak focused on action as a source of hope in a sea of despair-worthy climate and packaging sustainability news.
Containers & Closures
Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project Sends Supply Chain Ripples
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? We asked Alejandro Santamaria, Coke's senior director.
March 27, 2024
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.
Business Intelligence
Craft Producers Investing in Label Premiumization
As craft producers explore label premiumization strategies like tactile and smart features, OEMs should be ready to successfully accommodate such changes.
March 21, 2024
Craft producers can use unique visual or tactile features to help draw customers in and communicate a feeling of luxury.
Package Design
Unilever, GSK, and Las Quinas Introduce Packaging Designed for User Engagement
ThePackHub
See a few examples of packaging designed for user engagement by Unilever, GSK, and Las Quinas from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
March 18, 2024
Unilever's partnership with Be My Eyes allows customers who are blind or visually impaired to easily access product information and recipes.
Materials & Containers
KDP Unveils Plant-based, Compostable, Single-Serve Coffee Pod Concept
Plastic- and aluminum-free single-serve coffee pods use an alginate-based primary package material with some barrier properties. The system will employ recyclable secondary packaging with additional barrier. Many packaging details remain to be sorted.
March 15, 2024
The plant-based coating doesn’t dissolve into the coffee—it stays intact during the brewing process. So, after the K-Rounds are brewed, consumers will have to dispose of the remaining spent coating. It is expected to be certified compostable.
Package Design
PepsiCo’s Rockstar Brand Visually Aligns On-Pack Designs Across Portfolio
Learn which well-known energy drink employed a new visual identity system that prioritizes constancy across the portfolio.
March 13, 2024
The fresh, more consistent and unified look will extend across all international Rockstar Energy flavors in multi-touchpoint campaigns, and anywhere else you find Rockstar in 2024.
News
No Surprise Who is Leading Sustainable Packaging Charge
Shoppers 18-34 are willing to pay more for sustainable packaging, according to an ALPLA survey.
March 8, 2024
Alpla Sustainable Survey
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Simpson Imports Accused of Duping Consumers with Tomato Labeling
A judge's ruling on misleading packaging claims against Simpson Imports highlights product labeling and consumer expectations, shedding light on the importance of transparency in packaging design
February 29, 2024
Simpson Accused of Duping Consumers with Tomato Labeling
Package Design
Four Top Packaging Design Trends that Embrace Simplicity
Finding consumers fatigued with the onslaught of digital technology, some brands have turned to aesthetic simplicity for their packaging design. Here are four of the top trends in packaging design for 2024.
February 26, 2024
Packaging Design
Sustainable Packaging
Innovative New Sustainable Packaging Materials at PACK EXPO
PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023 in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in Sustainable Packing Materials.
February 20, 2024
RyPax and CelluComp
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Digital Printing Transforms Small Pet Select’s Packaging
For D2C Small Pet Select, what was once an understated kraft shipper is now a highly decorated, interactive branding device with beautiful colors, graphics, and messaging that enhances the consumer's unboxing experience with real porch appeal.
February 19, 2024
“The beauty of digital printing is that we are able to change and adapt on the fly,” says Josh Price, product buyer, Small Pet Select.
Package Design
Accessible Lidding Your Partner Won't Have to Open For You
Traditional jarred products on a store shelf require more than 40 in-lb of torque to open, with some requiring more than 50 in-lb of torque. With the EEASY Lid, it only takes an average of 9 in-lb of torque to open a jar.
February 16, 2024
Chilau Foods, a line of southern-inspired stew bases and spices, adopted the EEASY Lid by Consumer Convenience Technologies (CCT) for all of its products in a move it says will provide consumers with a new level of accessibility.
Package Design
Castania Redesigns Nut Packaging to Prep for Expansion
Castania’s redesigned nut packaging plays on the brand's history and sets it apart from global competitors in anticipation of a market expansion.
January 31, 2024
Castania's redesigned nut packaging features copper coloring as a nod to the brand's copper roasting drums.
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Mass Customization of Packaging Makes Cheerios' Heart Campaign Tick
For American Heart Month, consumers can personalize their own yellow cereal cartons to remind loved ones of heart health. These types of mass customization campaigns, in this case digital printing of variable data, are where digital printing can shine.
January 31, 2024
In honor of American Heart Month, Cheerios is offering the chance to purchase special-edition boxes or personalize your own for the ones you love.
Package Design
Supply Chain Eyes 2027 for Switch from 1D GTIN to Digital Link 2D Barcodes
The GTIN 1D barcode has worked for 50 years, reliably making our packaged products go 'beep' at checkout. Poised to take its place is a more capable, internet connected 2D code representation of a GS1 standard URL called Digital Link.
January 30, 2024
Dominique Guinard (left), VP of Innovation at Digimarc and founder of EVRYTHNG, which Digimarc acquired, explained at AIPIA that Digital Link is about ready for prime time, with 2027 being a practical timeline to have infrastructure prepared for the switch.
Package Design
Active, Intelligent, Connected, & Otherwise 'Smart' Packaging Hits its Stride
The stars are aligning on multiple relevant fronts: consumer behavior, legislation, technology, and data management and capacity. This confluence of advancements is slowly but surely unlocking the potential of active and intelligent packaging.
January 27, 2024
Active and Intelligent Packaging Association’s (AIPIA) 2023 World Congress, Amsterdam.
Package Design
Consumer Perspective on Package Design Explained Through Eye-tracking Technology
Eye-tracking technology offers health and beauty brands insights for package redesign and use of specialty coatings. Nature’s Way recently participated in a study on the topic.
January 24, 2024
Eye-tracking technology provides insight into consumer trends with specialty coatings for multivitamins.
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