Recycling

Technologies to track in 2019

While Healthcare Packaging Expo (Sept. 23-25; Las Vegas Convention Center), co-located with PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019, remains months away, trends and innovations in the life sciences sector continue to make headlines.

January 28, 2019

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Recycling

The connected pack: How social media is changing packaging design

As consumers become more ‘connected,’ designers are shifting their approach, viewing packaging as a valuable owned media channel and opportunity for brands to engage.

January 27, 2019

Sustainability

The case for rPET wine bottles

Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.

January 26, 2019

Plastics/resins

Herbal medicine packages look at home in the kitchen

A redesign for the Maty’s line of herbal medicinal products helps this all-natural and organic brand break from a sterile, clinical-looking sea of OTC packaging on-shelf.

January 25, 2019

Home

Terphane signs distribution agreement with Toyobo Co.

Terphane, a specialty polyester films manufacturer, announced it is the exclusive distributor in the Americas for Japan-based Toyobo Co.’s environmentally friendly films.

January 24, 2019

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Top 10 Healthcare Packaging stories of 2018 reflect trends

The year’s most popular stories on Healthcare Packaging.com provide a snapshot of 2018’s leading trends, including logistics automation, packaging redesign, cannabis, sustainability, and more.

January 24, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New filler/sealer provides flexibility for hotel cosmetics

German hotel toiletries supplier ADA Cosmetic GmbH replaces an aging filler/sealer with one that provides maximum flexibility for different package formats and quick changeover.

January 24, 2019

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E-commerce requires different approach for CPGs, 3PLs and OEMs

January 23, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Co-packer, brand owners toast success of wine in a can

Canned wine takes off for co-packer Free Flow Wines after it adds a canning line. Also getting a boost are customers Essentially Geared and Foley Family Wines.

January 23, 2019

Sustainability

Company recruits ‘army of children’ to recycle plastic caps

Green Tree Plastics establishes the ABC Promise Partnership, which enlists school children and other community groups to collect plastic caps for recycling that are then used for bench products.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Biopolymer Materials and Technologies Flourish

As the biopolymers market for packaging gets ready to take off, the range of bio-based renewable materials and the technologies being developed or used commercially continue to expand.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Global alliance formed, commits $1 billion to end plastic waste

Nearly 30 global companies representing the plastics value chain commit $1 billion to help end plastic waste in the environment, with the goal of investing up to $1.5 billion in the next five years.

January 21, 2019

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Report: Innovative new e-commerce at PACK EXPO

Covering 1.2 million net sq ft of exhibit space and drawing 2,500 exhibitors, PACK EXPO International brought 50,000 attendees to the biggest packaging event of the year. Here is our report on e-commerce.

January 21, 2019