Contract packaging

CM/CPs: Don’t Let Your Brand Customers Paralyze Your Team

What's one of the most important lessons that external manufacturers and their brand customers can learn?

July 9, 2025

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging

Packaging World Annual Outlook Report: Contract Packaging

Two of the first 100 submissions will win a $150 gift card. Answer 5 quick questions about contract manufacturing and packaging.

July 1, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line: Robotic Cookie Multi-pack Automation System

What does ZoRoCo Packaging have to offer Partake as a contract manufacturer? Ten delta-style robots that use unique, easily changed end-of-arm tooling to stack cookies into slugs and then place slugs into plastic trays at 700 cookies/min with a 99% performance guarantee.

July 1, 2025

PMMI News

As Tariffs Upend Capital Plans, CPGs Exercise Caution, Strategy, & Contract Clarity

Four brand-side leaders share how tariffs are reshaping packaging equipment investment and what they expect from their OEM partners.

June 3, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Contract Manufacturing Annual Outlook Report

Why are external manufacturing services expected to thrive? Packaging World editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds and Joseph Derr, editor of Contract Manufacturing and Packaging Magazine, discuss trends in contract manufacturing.

May 27, 2025

Coding & Marking

Metering System Solves Date Coding Woes for Olly Containers

To fix inconsistent date coding for Olly supplements, co-man MSI turned to a Morrison CHS metering system for accurate container placement.

May 19, 2025

Contract Packaging

Korpack “Disrupts” the Industry with Rapid Growth as a Single Source Supplier for CPG Brands

Korpack, Inc.

Korpack—which is SQF, USDA, FDA-certified—now offers over 200K square feet of space to its partners and has opened its third location in the Chicago Area in under 10 years.

May 1, 2025

Contract Packaging

Sunny Outlook for Outsourcing, External Manufacturing

Survey results reveal external manufacturing services like contract manufacturing and contract packaging are seen as a valuable and growing resource, as both emerging and established brands focus on cost management, brand growth, and flexibility.

April 18, 2025

Contract Packaging

Annual Outlook Report: Contract Packaging

Packaging World's inaugural Annual Outlook report takes aim to benchmark changes and trends as the packaging landscape evolves.

April 16, 2025

Contract packaging

Brand Insights on Outsourcing to Co-Packers

Why do so many brands turn to contract manufacturers and packagers? Hear from three brands who outsource.

March 25, 2025

Podcasts

unPACKed Podcast: The Evolution of Contract Packaging

Listen as Jorge Izquierdo, PMMI’s vice president of market development at PMMI, uncovers key findings from PMMI’s latest Contract Packaging report.

March 4, 2025

Case/Tray Packing

Once Upon a Farm Automates Case Packing for New Recycle-ready Pouches

This marketer of high-quality nutritious baby food and children’s snacks has found a way to improve case packing while also getting its toes wet in recycle-ready pouches.

February 28, 2025

Beer

How Craft Brewers Are Thriving in a Plateauing Market

The craft brew boom is plateauing at long last. But according to Bart Watson, president and CEO of the Brewer's Association, savvy brewers are finding ways to thrive. Stand-out packaging design and aptitude with packaging automation are proven strategies.

February 25, 2025