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

Sustainable Packaging: Page 260

Home

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

Combo plastic/paperboard sleeve cups

Distinctive single-serve cottage cheese packaging stands out in refrigerator case.

November 1, 2017

Containers

Eco Pack Systems: Produce containers

This shipping container, made of food grade material, reduces shipping costs, improves hygiene, and enables customizable point of purchase branding.

October 31, 2017

Sustainability

Marks & Spencer, Nestle, and Mondelez embrace circular economy

Major European CPGs are striving to improve, but infrastructure gaps and poor recycling rates hamper efforts.

October 30, 2017

Home

Delivery, e-commerce impact foodservice packaging trends

Consumers’ ‘nearly limitless’ food delivery options are impacting how foodservice packaging must perform, explains the Foodservice Packaging Institute’s 2017 Trends Report.

October 30, 2017

Containers

Winery photographs bring Four Winds brand to life

A rebrand for Four Winds Vineyard’s wine labels uses photos taken at the winery, depicting simple items—sheets, dandelions, and pinwheels among them—blowing in the wind.

October 28, 2017

Home

Machinery builder weighs in on sustainability

If you really want disruptive solutions, you must include machinery builders in the conversation, says Dr. Carstens Weiss from Bosch Packaging Technology.

October 27, 2017

Recycling

Really challenging the status quo

Challenging conventional wisdom, The Waste Policy Officer for the European Environmental Bureau, Piotr Barczak, is down on packaging as a means to limit food waste.

October 27, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability in Packaging

A series of articles reporting on Sustainability in Packaging, Europe 2017, from Barcelona, Spain.

October 27, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Rubbish in, rubbish out

Europe’s circular economy must start with smart package design, says Coca-Cola.

October 26, 2017

Home

Bio-based sealant films in ultra-light gauges

It’s now cost-competitive to replace linear load sealant films with a more sustainable alternative made from PLA material. EarthFirst UL sealant films feature high machine-ability and performance, and are available in gauges of 36, 48 and 60.

October 25, 2017

Sustainability

The problem with plastic packaging in Europe

How to address an industrial system inherently reluctant to change?

October 25, 2017