Plastics/resins

Gatorade Hydration App uses Wearable Sensor, Smart Bottle, & Refill Pod

PepsiCo’s Gatorade Brand unveiled a new smart hydration system for health and fitness consumers that features a durable bottle, a recyclable refill pod, a wearable patch, an LED closure, and a smartphone app to interact with the athlete.

October 28, 2022

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Recyclable, Long Shelf-Life Paperboard Foodservice Pack Used by Pret A Mange

ProAmpac's Fresh Food To-Go line combines recyclability, bilboard space, and a long shelf-life in a sealed, grab-and-go sandwich pack.

October 28, 2022

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PACK EXPO International: Follow-ups Transform the Future

What will your packaging operations look like in 2032?

October 27, 2022

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PACK EXPO International Attendance Surpasses Last Edition

Over 44,000 attendees come together for the most comprehensive packaging and processing event this year.

October 26, 2022

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Day Four Wrap-up from PACK EXPO

Recycle-ready PE films, pulsed light sterilization, automated tray unwrapping, and smart pitch indexing—it was all there at PACK EXPO International.

October 26, 2022

Operational Excellence

Food & Bev Turn to R&D Digitization

The digitization of R&D is a process that, in packaging, enables developers to simulate and demonstrate a product, then thoroughly outline use cases.

October 26, 2022

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Automated Paper Mailers for E-comm Market

Updates to Pregis' Sharp MAX-PRO 18 on-demand automated bagger, allow for consumer-friendly, curbisde recyclable, paper-based packaging for e-comm fulfillment via the Pregis EverTec mailer.

October 26, 2022

PMMI News

Parallel Trends Overlap, Intertwine at PACK EXPO

After a four-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, PACK EXPO International was back in Chicago in late October, 2022, and the top trends weren’t hard to spot.

October 26, 2022

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Flow Wrapper for Trayless Ground Meat Packaging

Debuting in the U.S., the FW3710B wrapper from Formost Fuji eliminates the non-recyclable PS tray from ground meat packaging, reducing shipping, labor, and additional packaging equipment.

October 25, 2022

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Recycle-Ready Progress

Amcor Flexibles at its PACK EXPO Booth S-3715 showed some of its recycle-ready advancements for PE-based films.

October 25, 2022

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Curbside Recyclable E-comm Mailers via Convenient Bagger

The Rollbag R3200 bagger simplifies e-commerce shipping in certified curbside recyclable paper bags.

October 25, 2022

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Sustainability News from Mars at PACK EXPO

An ISBM jar for Mars brands and two new systems for pharma products were just a few highlights at the busy Chicago show.

October 24, 2022

Sustainability

SD Polymers Dedicated to Finding New Sustainable Solutions

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Consumers all over the world are becoming more aware of the need for a circular economy, and SD Polymers is committed to finding and implementing new solutions to reduce waste and help contribute to a closed loop system.

October 24, 2022