Packaging Digest

Breaking News in Flexible Packaging April 2024

Frito-Lay's combo branding, snacks mind their beeswax, Biscoff cookie packs redesigned, PepsiCo UK embraces paper packaging, Berry's better bale wraps.

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Best in New Food and Beverage Packaging

Compostable foodservice packaging, bottled Skittles, edible beeswax snack wrap, traceability tech for food, Biscoff cookie packs redesigned, Jamie Foxx whiskey.

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Packaging Can Work Harder to Prevent Food Waste

With Earth Day Stop Food Waste this week, we consider how brands and stakeholders can leverage packaging to reduce food waste.

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Where’s Your Packaged Food? FDA Will Need to Know

Feeling pressure from FDA's traceability deadline? Sojo Shield is a game-changing, real-time solution that uses blockchain, geolocation, AI, and QR codes.

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Paper Packaging Gets 20x Better Barrier

New HyperBarrier coating gives paper-based flexible packaging a massive leap in polyolefin oxygen and moisture barrier — offering EVOH, foil, and metallization alternatives — without ruining curbside recyclability.

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Planet vs. Plastics: Not All Plastic Problems Are the Same

A focus on three core areas and four polymers will minimize the environmental impact of plastic and microplastics now and in the long term.

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Municipal Recycling: Social Impact and Engagement

Earth Day 2024 is a good time to consider the potential of a modern commercial recycling facility that hosts educators, students, community members, and brand owner stakeholders.

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Healthcare Packaging News and Top Issues

Earth Day and healthcare packaging sustainability, hospital packaging waste reborn as new products, label management tips for medicines, advancements in sterile medical packaging, more.

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Estée Lauder Companies Elevates Eco-Elegance

New standards of luxury packaging show innovation, collaboration, boldness, and inspiration.

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Daisy’s Dairy Case Dance

Unique, upscale packaging elevates cottage cheese to an indulgent splurge.

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General Mills Transforms Healthy Snacks

A packaging redesign for Good Measure bars and crisps highlights their “blood sugar-friendly” formulation, macronutrients, and flavor.

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What Sustainable Solutions Make Sense for Plastics?

The tension between engineering and marketing is never more apparent than in sustainable packaging decisions.

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How Coca-Cola Bottles Lost Weight

Fifteen questions answered about a complex project involving the brand’s small PET bottles that was three years in development.

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Package Decorating Trends on Display

A powerful return of a certain printing technology is one of many reasons to make time to visit Labelexpo Americas this year.

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How to be a Packaging Visionary in Pharma and Medtech

Here’s how you can be the leader you’ve always wanted to be, even within the prescribed limits of industry regulations.

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Market Dynamics Favor Thermoform Packaging

Healthy demand from food and pharmaceutical companies will spur growth, despite sustainability challenges.

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Behind-the-Scenes Look at a New Recycling Facility

Insights into the justification and value of a $50 million recycling facility that opened last year in Chicago.

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FemInnovation CEO to Keynote IME South

Bethany Corbin, a recognized thought leader in women's health, is set to keynote IME South. The six-in-one advanced design and manufacturing expo returns June 4-6 to the Charlotte Convention Center.

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How do you Package America’s First OTC Birth Control Pill?

Considering the political and ethical landmines around opposing positions of abortion and right to life, Opill’s packaging design is “unapologetic in its boldness.”

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A New Way to Tune Up Your Packaging Line

With a little help from an artificial friend, Changeover Wizard John Henry belts one out.

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A Vision of the Future: Machine Learning in Packaging Inspection

Today’s enhanced machine vision for packaging quality control definitely has its bright spots. But be wary of its shadows.

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3D Printing Fast-Tracks Plastic Tray Prototyping

Thermoformer supplier Harpak-ULMA’s nationwide 3D-printing service permits rapid iterative customization of tray dimensions and detailed design features.

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Conagra to Close Birds Eye Plant

Hundreds of employees will be laid off.

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Dow and P&G Partner on Dissolution Solution

Polyethylene is the target polymer of a novel recycling technology for hard-to-recycle plastic packaging.

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Exciting Move for WestPack 2025

Our annual event revs up its eco-cred for packaging professionals, especially those responsible for production improvements and ESG reporting.

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Recycling Secrets of Sorting

Ever wonder how mixed material packaging is separated into value-added recyclables at high speed? Read and watch how a modern recycling facility does it.

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6 Packaging and Manufacturing Trends Unwrapped

As we continue through 2024, the packaging and manufacturing industries are poised for significant transformations driven by automation.

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Most Trustworthy US Food & Beverage Companies

50 food and beverage companies made the list of more than 700 total.

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Bottles, Buns, and Bags: Packaging Roasts and Toasts of March

From a pseudo blood bag with a drink spout to round hot dog buns and boxes with brown spots, we note the past month’s food and beverage packaging wins and fails.

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Top Stories Pulsing with Great Design

Popular articles last month show how beer, cereal, spirits, snacks, cannabis, and even consumer electronics benefit from packaging designs that radiate wide appeal.

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Nestlé Combines Design Smarts with Sustainability

A cleverly designed all-paper multipack features hexagonal tubes of Smarties candy.

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New Rules of Packaging Advance Circularity

The European Parliament debates new rules for packaging after experiencing significant increases in packaging waste.

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The Inner Workings of Overflow Fillers

Learn about the three types of overflow fillers for viscous and non-viscous liquids.

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Medical Test Kits Find a New Home

Patients appreciate the comfort, convenience, and confidentiality of testing and treating themselves where they live.

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New Domino Sugar Pack Hits Sweet Spot

Rigid plastic packaging for granulated sugar offers numerous ease-of-use and sustainability benefits.

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FDA Recall Update: March 2024

Here are the food & beverage, pet product, and drug/medical device recalls by the US Food and Drug Administration.

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ACMA Launches Pharmaceutical Think Tank

The goal is to contribute to informed decision-making in the industry by offering expertise on various topics and more.

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Best in New Food and Beverage Packaging March 2024

Anheuser-Busch's “U.S. Farmed” seal, Moët Hennessy’s NFC-enabled bottles, female-designed beer packaging, Cadbury's retro chocolate bar packaging, AI's "souper" redesign.

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Suture Pack Pops a Wheelie

A rotating wheel, mounted on a card, safeguards the suture and makes it easy to uncoil.

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Disturbing Healthcare Recalls in 1Q2024

Take a closer look at some of FDA’s recent pharmaceutical and medical device recalls where packaging has played a role.

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Nestlé Purina Opens $450M Pet Food Plant

This is the 23rd manufacturing plant for the company.

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Recycling in an MRF Minute: $50 Million Plus Benefits

What’s the impact of a new recycling plant? Consider The Exchange materials recovery facility (MRF) that opened last summer in Chicago.

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Breaking News in Flexible Packaging March 2024

Berry ups film recycling, a p-s film first, Aldi uses AI to track bag recycling, sandy texture film, Dow and P&G recycle film together.

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Bridge Collapse Triggers Supply Chain Warnings

The tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, March 26, brings attention to America’s business of moving packaged goods.

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Beer Packaging March Madness Fun

The winning craft beer can advanced through three rounds to emerge #1.

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Kellogg's Closing Plant, Laying Off 142 Workers

A second plant will close in the near future as well.

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Anheuser-Busch First with New On-Pack Seal

Brand owner adopts new certification program to support American farmers on packages of select A-B beer brands.

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Nestlé Signs MOU to Tackle Food Insecurity

The food giant and The Global FoodBanking Network are enhancing their partnership.

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Label-less Recyclable PLA Bottle Is Next

Brand’s embossed water bottle will revolutionize and simplify recycling of polylactic acid packaging to make new PLA bottles.

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Women Designers Crack Open Beer Packaging

The all-woman package design team at Sapporo USA/Stone Brewing mines deep reserves of skill and talent to create lively beer packaging.

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