Recycling

Packaging details matter for Hormel’s premium ham

Hormel considers every aspect of the packaging for its e-commerce-only premium ham, Curemaster Reserve, to leverage its small-batch quality and the heritage of Hormel’s retail ham brand.

April 23, 2018

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Material handling

Sun-sational sustainable packaging for meal kit

Meal kit company Sun Basket employs the most environmentally friendly packaging available for its kit ingredients, including new insulation made from curbside-recyclable paper.

April 22, 2018

Material handling

E-commerce and packaging, from all angles

Top-of-mind CPG concerns around e-commerce packaging are addressed, including package design, sustainability, specialized packaging equipment, and Amazon’s packaging requirements.

April 22, 2018

Flexibles

BeeBetter single-use pouch aims to ‘help the medicine go down’

By putting patients at the center of its design development, this conceptual pouch employs shape and a dispensing device to help with medication delivery and adherence.

April 17, 2018

Flexibles

Supplement maker launches recycling program

Consumers can now recycle supplement and vitamin packaging through Twinlab’s Supplement the Earth Recycling Program, while earning money for non-profits, schools, or charitable organizations.

April 14, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever kickstarts conversion of PET waste to virgin-grade material

Unilever joins with partners Ioniqa and Indorama to bring to market technology it says could transform the industry at large by making all forms of recycled PET suitable for food packaging.

April 7, 2018

Containers

Paper’s pressing forward

Remarkable progress has been made recently where paper bottles are concerned. Two developments—one in molded pulp and another in paperboard—are especially notable.

April 6, 2018

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Brand owners navigate Amazon certification

Will your brand be frustrated by Frustration Free?

April 5, 2018

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Berry Global champions charge to highlight the possibilities of plastics

Berry Global Group, Inc. took steps to drive the discussion around the broad and significant benefits of plastics at the World Petrochemical Conference in Houston. Tom Salmon, the company’s Chairman and CEO, presented alongside other industry leaders.

April 4, 2018

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Smooth flavors, smooth line

A depalletizer that consolidates glass and plastic formats into a single operation, coupled with smart conveyors that ensure requisite bottle backlog at the front of the line and line-smoothing accumulation all along, has led this manufacturer to increased bottling efficiency.

April 3, 2018

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Heed the sustainability call

It's about time someone stood up for single-use plastic packaging and against bans of specific packaging materials, and formats.

April 3, 2018

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Packaging, sustainability are NPE2018 focal points

Plastics will play a central role in food, beverage, and CPG packaging applications for the foreseeable future, while sustainability and recycling implications loom large.

April 3, 2018

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The times they'll keep a-changing

In retrospect, the era that constituted my early years as president and CEO of PMMI feels like a tipping point for an evolution in the packaging industry.

April 3, 2018