Package Design

MM Packaging to Showcase Pharma Packaging Solutions at PACK EXPO International 2024

Visitors to Booth W-18098 can learn about MM Packaging's offerings, including smart packaging, anti-counterfeiting, serialization, and child-resistant solutions.

October 17, 2024

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Recycling

Column: Can Optical AI Help Revive Undersubscribed Recycling Systems?

U.S. recycling habits are suboptimal to say the least, and brands are getting tight-lipped about their sustainability efforts for fear of being accused of greenwashing given so little material gets recycled. Can vastly improved sortation help the streams?

October 7, 2024

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Amazon’s SIOC Rebranded as SIPP; Brands Still Flock to Participate

Amazon says its e-commerce packaging program, now with a new acronym, reduces waste and enhances customer experience by designing products specifically for online shipping, eliminating unnecessary materials and promoting sustainability.

October 2, 2024

Logistics/Supply Chain

Portex Raises $6.25 Million to Revolutionize Freight Management for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Portex

Portex has secured funding to accelerate its AI-focused product development for small- to mid-sized companies, saving shippers 80% on task time and 30% on transport costs.

September 24, 2024

Protective/transport packaging

Temperature-Controlled Pharmaceutical Packaging Solutions Market Worth 8.64 Billion by 2031

Growth is fueled by the rising number of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, including biologics, vaccines, and specialty treatments.

September 19, 2024

Recycling

RFID at the Intersection of Sustainable and Smart Packaging

RFID labels present substantial opportunities and challenges alike to packaging's sustainability chops. Experts are bullish on overcoming obstacles around material miscibility, and unlocking the sortation-improvement potential that RFID labeling poses.

September 13, 2024

Contract Packaging

Bonded Logistics Relocates Bonded Pac to Its Flagship Facility in Charlotte

Bonded Logistics

Bonded Logistics announces move of Bonded Pac to its N.C. facility to offer streamlined solutions for contract packaging, manufacturing, storage, fulfillment, and distribution.

August 29, 2024

Logistics/Supply Chain

Barry-Wehmiller Appoints Doug Neal to Drive Continuous Improvement

Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc

Industry veteran brings three decades of operations and continuous improvement experience to new role as Vice President of Continuous Improvement.

August 8, 2024

Logistics/Supply Chain

Bastian Solutions Breaks Ground on New Campus in Noblesville, Indiana

Toyota Automated Logistics

Toyota-backed logistics company invests $165 million in manufacturing and corporate headquarters, creating jobs and boosting local economy.

July 22, 2024

Digital Transformation

Packaging Predictions from Years Past Prove True Today

Over the years, PW columnists have gone out on limbs, some sturdier than others, to make bold predictions on packaging trends. Their accuracy and hit rate is worth noting.

July 19, 2024

Robotics

AI-based RaaS Packaging Handles CPG Exporter's High-Changeover

At PACK EXPO, LuLu Group company Y International discovered and put to good use an AI-based robotic secondary packaging offering that's uniquely able to handle the ultra-high changeover and throughput of a high-mix, high-volume CPG export operation.

July 11, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Amazon Close to Eliminating All Plastic Air Pillows From Packaging

Amazon has replaced 95% of plastic air pillows in North American delivery packaging with 100% recycled paper filler, aiming to remove them completely by year-end.

June 20, 2024

Logistics/Supply Chain

Kraft, Walmart, & WestRock Dish on Demand Planning, Supply Chain Platform Implementation

Brand owners, retailers, and packaging suppliers exist on complex, often disparate supply chain tech stacks. These increasingly are being integrated into single-source-of-truth platforms, and while implementation is hard, early adopters offer this advice.

June 19, 2024