Recycling

RIT students redesign Wegmans’ packs for convenience, sustainability

Student teams from RIT redesign packaging for Wegmans’ orange juice and Greek yogurt, creating greater convenience and cost savings and using sustainable materials.

January 22, 2016

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Operational Excellence

E-commerce Trends Emerging in Pharmaceutical Packaging

In this Q&A, Gavin Ashe, Managing Partner at Kite Packaging, talks packaging trends and innovation for 2016, saying industry too often focuses on the cheapest solution, not the best one.

January 21, 2016

Material handling

Pharmapack Europe to Unveil 2016 Trends

Serialization, combination products, emerging markets, outsourcing, TVF and adherence identified as the key themes in drug delivery and packaging.

January 20, 2016

Sustainability

Modest Growth for Global Packaging Demand Through 2020

New Smithers Pira report says Asian regions, emerging markets, and sustainability to drive packaging demand in next five years.

January 19, 2016

Flexibles

Can we solve the flexible film recovery puzzle?

Industry groups have begun looking at strategies to develop multilayer flexible film recovery systems. But can they overcome the challenges that exist in every step of the process?

January 17, 2016

Flexibles

Seventh Generation Introduces Recyclable, Flexible SUP

The new pouch is a multilayer PE structure that provides functional and aesthetic advantages comparable to a mixed-material structure, but solves the recycling challenge.

January 16, 2016

Flexibles

Grass seed stands up, and out, on shelf in cube-shaped pouch

For a new hi-tech grass seed product, Mountain View breaks from the standard layflat bag, using a cube-shaped flexible pouch that offers shelf impact and greater efficiency.

January 11, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Craft-beer carrier with retractable handle is portable, stackable

A new six-pack paperboard carrier for Canadian craft brewer West Shefford uses a unique design with a retractable handle that enables stacking on pallets and at retail.

January 10, 2016

Plastics/resins

3D-printed package styles proliferate at Anita’s Balm

Since introducing a 3D-printed, PLA balm jar in 2014, Anita’s Balm has developed a number of new 3D-printed packaging designs for its own use and for sale to other brands.

January 8, 2016

Protective/transport packaging

Internet shopping boosting protective packaging demand

Yet gains will moderate and offshoring of durable goods manufacturing presents a challenge to local packaging providers, says Freedonia report.

January 7, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Reduce, reuse, recycle is the theme for GreenerPackage.com’s top 10 of 2015

Most-read articles center around commercial applications that reduce the use of petroleum-based plastics, the reuse of packaging materials, and recycling.

January 5, 2016

Contract packaging

In-house HPP replaces toll processing

This Houston startup sees a bright future for refrigerated ready meals with a ‘clean label’ thanks to High Pressure Processing. One unit is in and another will soon be paired with it.

January 5, 2016

Home

Japan Pack—the search for perfection

Where better to go than Japan Pack to get a taste of the Japanese packaging machinery sector’s focus on the delivery of a perfect final product to the end consumer?

January 5, 2016