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Packaging Trend Focus: E-commerce Channel Growth is Great Packaging Opportunity

All signs are that the e-commerce market will continue to thrive even after the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. There is excellent opportunity for operators to find innovative ways to make online packaging both more functional and sustainable.

Jonathan Shaffer, corporate safety engineer, Optimation Technology

How to Safely Implement Collaborative Robots

As collaborative robots continue to be introduced in manufacturing, some key safety hazards need to be addressed before collaborative robots can be safely implemented on the line.

Multipacking reimagined

Consumer attitudes toward plastics, especially the growing anxiety about plastics in the ocean, are reflected in recent developments where multipacking of cans is concerned.

Troy Wade, Co-Founder & Strategy Director, Brown&co

The Dos and Don’ts of Beer Packaging

Troy Wade, co-founder and Strategy Director of brand design firm Brown&co, shares some of the biggest mistakes both heritage and craft beer brands make in designing their packaging and offers insight how to better appeal to consumers.

Troy Wade, Co-Founder & Strategy Director, Brown&co

The Dos and Don’ts of Beer Packaging

Troy Wade, co-founder and Strategy Director of brand design firm Brown&co, shares some of the biggest mistakes both heritage and craft beer brands make in designing their packaging and offers insight how to better appeal to consumers.

Steve Jackson, SGK

Three Ways to Attract Consumers Through Color

Understanding the how color resonates with consumers and how it is shaping the future of brands and packaging can help brands understand, attract, and connect to their consumers.

Sterling Anthony

Aluminum Cans for Water?

In 2020, the use of aluminum containers for water will increase considerably, spearheaded by Aquafina and Dasani.

Francisco Nogueira

When Will Personalized Packaging Break Through?

Francisco Nogueira, Global Packaging Innovation-Decoration Specialist at AB-InBev, sees personalized packaging as a trend that is about to take off.

Packaging’s Shift to Plants

Packaging change is always driven by an interplay of market forces: Economics, evolving machinery and materials technologies, customer preferences and value perceptions, regulations, and corporate social responsibility among them.

Matt Reynolds, Editor

SFO Bottle Ban?

Effective Aug. 20, San Francisco Airport (SFO) banned single-use plastic (read PET) water bottles.

Food’s Identity Crises, Part II: Standard Stuff Gets Reconsidered

Last month, we explored the way the increasingly innovative world of new foods presents challenges to regulators, what with non-meat-containing meat substitutes and food proteins from sources like insects, and discussed the controversies over how to name the foods.

Many paradigm-shifting packages were released this summer, including the LGBTQ-supportive rainbow labels on Bud Light.

The Hawthorne Effect & Package Design

It can be argued that most consumer-facing packaging is an evolutionary prototype, a perpetual experiment to see what messages and elements move the needle of sales.

Food’s Identity Crises

More and more consumers are saying they want food packagers to provide products incorporating topsoil.

Sterling Anthony

Package Design Research, Part III of III: Ethnography

Ethnography, the study of culture, has its origins in anthropology, wherein the researcher observes, from an embedded position, over months or even years.

Addressing the Engineer Shortage: Help Introduce Packaging Careers to Young People

My colleagues and I have been talking about the lack of young individuals wanting to work on the factory floor.

PACK EXPO as the Zero Moment of Truth

We talk a lot about the zero moment of truth in this magazine since packaging plays such a crucial role in nudging on-the-fence consumers over the purchasing tipping point, as they decide whether or not to place that shampoo or toothpaste or guacamole in the cart, virtual or physical.

Eric Gruber, Principal Engineer, Avanceon

Are you in Control? The Benefits of a Transparent System

The intention of the a Clean-In-Place is always the same—to get the system cleaned efficiently and reliably. But what happens when part of the system fails? That’s where the benefits of a transparent system comes into play.

Timothy S. Matheny, President, ECS Solutions

The Advantages of an Agile Cleaning System

There are many benefits to investing in an agile cleaning system. And though manufacturers may have to make an initial financial investment, the advantages that come along with it are as many as they are profitable.

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