Plastics/resins

What’s next for the rigid plastic packaging market?

A new study tracks market opportunities for rigid plastic packaging as it is challenged by flexible formats and growing concern over sustainability.

November 4, 2017

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Usually packages are filled that way for good, and lawful, reasons

Accusations that packages contain unlawful slack fill seem to be proliferating.

November 1, 2017

Sustainability

The problem with plastic packaging in Europe

How to address an industrial system inherently reluctant to change?

October 25, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

A Bounty of Options for Biopolymers

Since PLA made its commercial-scale debut in 2002, resin suppliers have raced to develop a range of biopolymers that decouple plastics from fossil fuels, reduce GHGs, and offer viable end-of-life solutions.

October 22, 2017

Sustainability

The buzz on Lush’s 100% recycled coffee cup fiber-based box

Lush introduces a recyclable, biodegradable, and reusable hinged clamshell made of recycled coffee cup fiber that lets U.K. customers ‘pick and mix’ their favorite bath oil balls in-store.

October 16, 2017

Plastics/resins

DS Smith Plastics Division invests in new North America rigid packaging facility

With this new facility, DS Smith Plastics will further its positioning in North America, while responding to a growing demand of its rigid packaging products in the U.S.

September 19, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Rapak and Worldwide Dispensers to feature bag-in-box innovations at PACK EXPO

Rapak’s Oxygen Scavenger wine bags are an ‘active packaging’ system for bag-in-box that when used in combination with Worldwide Dispensers ‘ultra-high-barrier Mustang wine tap, offers the highest product’s shelf-life in the market.

September 8, 2017

Cartoning

Craft beer can line leverages robotics

Depalletizing of empty cans, formation of pallet layers, and lifting of formed layers onto pallets are all done robotically. Elsewhere in the plant, another robot depalletizes reshippers.

September 5, 2017

PMMI News

Powerful PACK EXPO Las Vegas drives innovation

Now in its 12th edition, this show just keeps on growing. The technologies exhibited on the show floor are just the beginning. And don’t forget it’s co-located with Healthcare Packaging EXPO.

September 5, 2017

Sustainability

Coca-Cola labels find new life as rum bottle caps

Dutch creative agency Fitzroy goes from ‘waste to wasted’ when it collects Coca-Cola bottle labels from the beaches and melts them down to make one-of-a-kind caps for its new rum brand.

August 15, 2017

Containers

Nestlé Pure Life relaunches brand

Relaunch includes new packaging that emphasizes the role water plays in consumers’ lives and the company’s family-centric values.

August 5, 2017

Reusable/Returnable

Own that unboxing experience: E-commerce packaging in the spotlight

To assuage consumers’ concerns over products purchased online, brand owners create their own ‘unboxing’ videos along with packaging that accommodates easy-to-assemble products.

July 31, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Automated end-of-line system for eight container styles, three case sizes

A small-footprint system at Ring Container Technologies’ blow-molding plant operates 24/7 case erecting/sealing, tumble packing, palletizing, and stretch wrapping.

July 31, 2017