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Section: News > Business intelligence
E-commerce
Examining the Intricacies of Containerized Cargo
After the disruptions brought on by COVID-19, forward-thinking companies are asking whether they know enough about containerized cargo.
August 9, 2022
Sterling Anthony, CPP
Workforce
IoPP Salary Survey Respondents Starting to Seek Greener Pastures
The 2022 IoPP Salary Survey reflects employees that are more confident about their prospects than they were at the outset of the pandemic, thus less risk averse and open to changing jobs. Employers have to pay more to retain already scarce labor.
August 1, 2022
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Package Design
Companies Add Counterfeit Protection and Security Through Package Innovation
See a few examples of counterfeit protection innovations from ThePackHub’s July Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
July 26, 2022
Gerresheimer's permanent medicinal product codes
Business intelligence
Machines-as-a-Service: This Trend Is Just Getting Started
A new report from Bain & Company illustrates why machines-as-a-service is a growing trend that will change the familiar equipment manufacturer business model.
July 26, 2022
Bain General
Coding, printing & labeling
UDI Implementation Highlights Global Challenges
Q&A: At times, the hardest parts of UDI implementation are not about data matrices and linear barcodes at all. Jay Crowley talks global databases, portfolio management, and workforce issues.
July 25, 2022
Some manufacturers continue to use proprietary barcodes for various purposes that existed before UDI along with a UDI barcode. This can confuse downstream users. [Getty]
Business intelligence
Over 50% of CPGs to Increase Cobot Spending
The suspected surge in cobot spending comes at a time when companies are just starting to grasp how to take advantage of them.
June 28, 2022
Spending Forecast for Cobots
Package Design
Legal Column: GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) Designation Goes to Congress
The GRAS pathway to clearance of the use of substances in packaging and in food is crucially important, and this proposed law has the potential to make enormous changes in various legal obligations.
June 28, 2022
Eric New
Business intelligence
CPG Cobot Use Expected to At Least Double in Next Five Years
CPGs predict cobot usage in packaging will more than double in the next five years, with processing use expected to triple according to PMMI report.
June 27, 2022
Cobot Explosion on Horizon
Business intelligence
Cybersecurity Roundup: Med Device, Packaging Ops, and Industrial Control
Essential businesses and connected devices are under increasing threats domestically and globally. Check out nine recent articles.
June 14, 2022
Cybersecurity: Assess Your Risk White Paper
Contract Manufacturing and Packaging
CPGs Move More Manufacturing and Packaging Lines to Contract Facilities
A PMMI industry report reveals what’s driving growth in machinery sales to the CoMan/CoPack market.
June 10, 2022
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Beverage
Craft Brew at a Crossroads
The pint glass is either half full or half empty for craft brewers—which it is depends entirely on how individual operations plan to navigate a doubly disruptive suite of consumer changes.
June 3, 2022
Matt Reynolds1
Operational excellence
Legals Side: Exploring Contracts etc.
The bottom line is that it’s important to make sure whenever possible to enter a written contract that is clear and complete. But, you'll be surprised to hear, it's not always the end of the world when a contract isn't in place, in certain circumstances.
May 29, 2022
Eric Greenberg, contributor
Business intelligence
Innovation Not Keeping Pace With Sustainability Demands
OEMs and CPGs agree that right now, packaging and processing technology hinders any significant sustainable solutions. Consumers and brands want it yesterday, but how?
May 17, 2022
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Business intelligence
Three Tips for Chief Procurement Officers Navigating Packaging Shortages
Gartner, Inc. provides tactics for chief procurement officers attempting to deal with packaging material shortages amidst supply instability and rising costs.
May 16, 2022
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Business intelligence
Great Resignation Driving Employee Poaching
It’s a buyer’s market for job seekers as 81,000 left manufacturing from Aug. 2020 through Aug. 2021. Manufacturers are climbing over each other to poach workers to meet increases in production.
May 12, 2022
Labor Decrease
PMMI news
Economist: Improving Supply Chain, Easing Demand, Let Packaging Machine OEMs Catch Up
ITR economists forecast a soft landing—not a recession—in coming months as consumers ease out of the pandemic and the revved-up stimulus-era economy fades. This will allow the supply chain to recalibrate and packaging machine OEMs to catch up on orders.
May 9, 2022
Neither gas prices nor inflation, rising interest rates nor global conflict, will deter financially well-situated Americans from spending their way through the new Roaring 20s.
Beverage
Live at the Craft Brew Conference: Is the Pint Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Pandemic-related channel shifts subsided in 2021, and on-premise sales bounced back, but there are both encouraging and concerning signs for the craft brew industry. Brewers Association's Bart Watson captures the landscape in his State of the Industry.
May 4, 2022
The Brewing Association's Economist Bart Watson delivers the good news and the bad news in Minneapolis.
Business intelligence
How Will Inflation Affect Packaging Material Costs in 2022?
In light of the Russia-Ukraine war, new report provides the 12-month inflation outlook in North America for packaging materials, including plastic, paper, glass, and aluminum.
May 2, 2022
Inflationary pressure on packaging materials will continue to rise in 2022 leading to double-digit price increases, with food packaging being a major contributor.
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