Sustainable Packaging

15 Sustainable Packaging Innovations to Watch

New sustainable packages, including those made from oat hulls and cocoa bean byproduct, refillable and reusable packaging for cosmetics, hand sanitizer, and deodorant, and other innovations, are the focus of webinar from ThePackHub.

April 5, 2021

Recycling: Page 114

Sustainable Packaging

A Nestle First in Recycled Content

Nestle and a coalition of companies have collaborated to produce what they are calling Australia’s first flexible film food wrapper made with recycled content.

April 5, 2021

Flexibles

Maxwell House Says Compostable Coffee Pods: ‘Good to the Last Drop. And Long After.’

Bringing circularity to a traditionally wasteful package, TC Transcontinental Packaging took a Gold Award in Sustainability for its 100% industrially compostable single-serve coffee pod.

April 4, 2021

Flexibles

Colorful Seal Assurance Supports EU MDR for Device Packaging

The FPA awarded PAXXUS a Gold Award in Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging for its Chameleon for Tyvek.

April 3, 2021

Capping

Fogg Filler Offers Cost-Saving Sanitizing Technology

Fogg Filler

Fogg Filler's closed-looped Ultrazone O4®sanitizing solution can perform at a 3 - 6+ log reduction, resulting in a near-aseptic rinse for bottles.

April 2, 2021

Sustainability

The Estée Lauder Companies Signs Global MOU With Eastman

Eastman Chemical Co.

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and specialty materials provider Eastman announced a global MOU that will enable ELC to reach its 2025 sustainable packaging goals.

April 2, 2021

Sustainability

Brands Look to Bio-Plastics to Replace Some Fossil-Based Plastic

Cucina Fresca and Lamb Weston are both replacing portions of their existing plastic packaging to bio-based materials. Watch our "Take Five with Packaging World" video to learn more about this industry shift to more sustainable materials.

April 2, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Schick Disposable Razors Take Sustainable Turn, Packaging Shifts to Match

Packaging for the Schick Xtreme 3 Disposable Razor is a thermoformed BOPP tray with film lidding. Now, consumers can choose the same razor design but now with a recycled (and recyclable) PP handle in a recyclable kraft-style paperboard PCR carton.

April 1, 2021

Sustainability

TricorBraun Flex Partners with How2Recycle

TricorBraun

TricorBraun Flex, the flexible packaging division of TricorBraun, partnered with standardized recycling labeling system How2Recycle, enabling TricorBraun Flex to offer additional recyclable packaging options for customers.

April 1, 2021

Operational Excellence

Five Trends that will Define the CPG Industry Post-COVID

According to the Consumer Brands Association, the post-pandemic outlook shows five major trends that will affect CPG companies, from consumer-influenced, to logistics and supply chain.

March 31, 2021

Operational Excellence

Macro Trends Impacting Consumers, Retailers, and Product Manufacturers in 2021

At the opening of the 2021 ISTA Forum TransPack and TempPack, the post-COVID state of consumer products and retail industries was the topic of discussion.

March 31, 2021

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging/Manufacturing Industry Booming, but Watch Out for Headwinds

New report from CPA shows that after a short pause at the start of the pandemic, the CP/CM industry ‘has come roaring back.’ Meanwhile, changing supply chain and innovation paradigms are reshaping the industry.

March 31, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Bio-based Potato Starches Replace Bag’s LLDPE Sealant Layer

In the new lamination, 16% of the complete structure, a sealant layer formerly composed of LLDPE, has been replaced with plant-based material that in fact is a byproduct of the French fries the company produces.

March 30, 2021