Sustainability

Clean, green design for ‘microdrink’ packaging

Kvell puts sustainable and sleek package design at the forefront when developing its waterdrop microdrink, a 5-g cube of powdered health and wellness ingredients that dissolves in water.

January 31, 2019

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Bio-based

The future of the cannabis supply chains

Is it time to break the cannabis supply chain into two separate discussions?

January 30, 2019

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Efficient rPET

With post-consumer plastic processing, sheet extrusion, thermoforming, and injection blow-molding functions all under one roof, this finished rPET container provider is creating efficiencies and quality control that will allow it to compete with virgin.

January 30, 2019

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E-commerce is disrupting processes, packages and machinery needs

January 30, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

McCormick: Not just doing well, but doing good

Michael Okoroafor, VP, Global Sustainability & Packaging Innovation for McCormick & Co., shares insights on the company’s goals and strategies around reducing the carbon footprint of its packaging.

January 30, 2019

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

Sustainability

Printed ingredients could disrupt the beverage category

California-based company Smart Cups releases a line of energy drinks, with microencapsulated ingredients printed on the bottom of a disposable cup that are activated with water.

January 28, 2019

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

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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