Sustainability

PakTech Receives Sustainability Product of the Year Award

The Business Intelligence Group named PakTech’s handles Sustainability Product of the Year in the 2021 Sustainability Awards program.

September 20, 2021

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Reusable Packaging Association to Host Reusable Packaging Pavilion at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Reusable Packaging Association

Featuring 30 Pavilion exhibitors offering the latest reusable packaging innovations.

September 17, 2021

Podcasts

unPACKed with Packaging World: Is Paper the New Plastic

Listen as Packaging and Processing Hall of Fame member Pat Reynolds breaks down the increased use of paper-based bottles on the latest unPACKed with Packaging World podcast.

September 16, 2021

Recycling

Getting Noticed: Standing Out on Shelf and In-Hand

ThePackHub

A package’s first impression can be the difference between success and failure in an ever-increasing competitive marketplace. See a few examples from ThePackHub’s September Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

September 13, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

BIC Transforms its Approach to Plastic Products & Packaging

New sustainability goals around its use of plastic drive BIC to look at new options for products and packaging, including a greater use of recycled materials, a move from plastic to paperboard, and refillable and reusable alternatives.

September 7, 2021

Sustainability

Reusable Deodorant Packaging Helps Keep Consumers Smelling Nice, More Sustainably

Personal care brands are introducing a range of refillable deodorant systems using a various materials and packaging systems to reduce the use of plastic. Watch this Take Five video to find out more.

September 3, 2021

Robotics

Mastering Complex Production Sequences

This middle-tier German beer producer offers some 25 varieties of beer in returnable glass bottles, so it needed a highly versatile and automated controls architecture.

September 3, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever Expands Refill Trials in the U.K.

After a successful trial with Asda last year, Unilever is launching the largest refill trial of its kind in the U.K., offering popular personal and household care products in return-on-the-go and refill-on-the-go formats.

September 1, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Reusable, Recyclable Glass Toothpaste Bottle is ‘Noice’

Noice Care offers its natural toothpaste in an amber glass bottle with a reusable pump dispenser for D2C; a reusable, refillable glass bottle is available through the Loop shopping platform.

August 31, 2021

Capping

Hi-tech Bottling Comes to Remote Armenian Mountains

A&M Rare’s new, ultramodern bottling plant seems almost surreal in a place where unspoiled scenery and mountain grandeur are on full display.

August 26, 2021

Robotics

New Advances in Robotics for Packaging

Despite a turbulent 18 months, robot suppliers continue to introduce advancements in robotics technology that include innovations in payload and reach, end-of-arm tooling, software, and applications.

August 23, 2021

Robotics

Robot Accurately Places Bin Lids at 45/min

A supplier of PET preforms for Coca-Cola, Western Container installs a lid-placing cell that features a six-axis robot that reliably and accurately picks and places lids onto reusable totes.

August 19, 2021

Robotics

More Flexible Robots Allow for More Case-Packing Options

New robotic equipment enables end users to address the growing range of case sizes, counts, and formats required by their customers with ease of programming and changeover.

August 10, 2021