Digital Transformation

Recycling

AI-Powered Recycling Tech Gains National Spotlight in Time’s Top 100 List

AMP, Glacier, and Greyparrot’s inclusion on Time’s list brings AI-powered sortation technologies to a wider audience.

October 13, 2025

Digital Transformation

Digital Link Reveals Conversational Product Packaging Powered by AI

Digital Link

Digital Link embeds conversational intelligence into a QR code, allowing packaging to go beyond static packaging.

October 8, 2025

Digital Transformation

The Rise of Connected Packaging

Jenny Stanley, founder of Appetite Creative, talks with Packaging World about the power of connected packaging to drive data, engagement, and sustainability.

October 7, 2025

Digital Transformation

Report: Agentic AI Moves From Vision to Value

Deloitte’s latest report reveals agentic AI is more than an automation tool, promising smarter design, resilient supply chains, and new aftermarket revenue streams—while keeping people at the center of production.

October 6, 2025

Digital Transformation

Avery Dennison and Wiliot Expand Partnership

Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison is set to manufacture Wiliot's next-generation, lower-cost, and smaller ambient IoT Bluetooth-enabled sensors and integrate them into its Intelligent Labels portfolio and atma.io connected product cloud to scale the technology's global market reach.

October 3, 2025

Robotics

Chef Robotics and JBT Marel's Proseal Partner on Joint Solution for Meal Assembly

The joint solution combines Chef's AI focus and flexibility with Proseal's robust, high-quality tray sealing machines and packaging solutions to provide food manufacturers with a flexible end-to-end solution for their meal assembly and packaging needs.

October 1, 2025

Digital Transformation

Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 3: An Integrator’s Viewpoint

An integrator describes what it would take for humanoid robots to be a viable automation option, and whether they have seen any interest in the technology among CPG customers, in part three of our series exploring humanoid robots in packaging and processing.

September 30, 2025

Robotics

AI-enabled Robot Builds of Mixed Pallets to Optimal Pattern

This AI-backed palletizer with articulated arm robot handles variable infeed of mixed case sizes, using artificial intelligence to build out the optimized pallet pattern.

September 29, 2025

Digital Transformation

Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 2: Cautious Curiosity Among CPGs

Some CPGs are evaluating humanoid robots as an automation solution, but interest isn’t translating to adoption quite yet in part two of this three-part series exploring the potential for humanoid robots in packaging and processing.

September 25, 2025

Digital Transformation

Humanoid Robots in Packaging Part 1: Continuous Upgrades, Some Industry Adoption

Humanoid robot technology has advanced quickly since Packaging World first covered it in 2023. In the first of this three-part series revisiting humanoid robots as a potential packaging labor solution, we hear from suppliers about their latest advancements, industry deployments, and vision for the technology’s future.

September 16, 2025

Labeling

Avery Dennison and Wiliot Expand Partnership to Meet Demand for Mmbient IoT-based Supply Chain Intelligence

Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison will now manufacture Wiliot’s battery-free, Bluetooth-enabled IoT sensors for integration into their Intelligent Labels portfolio and atma.io connected product cloud to scale the technology for global use.

September 17, 2025

Digital Transformation

QR Code Brings Play to Danone’s Plant-Based Kids Line

Danone brings connected packaging to its new Alpro kids range of soy beverages and yogurt in Europe, blending plant-based products with a digital game that entertains while it educates.

September 17, 2025