Walmart takes steps to reduce packaging associated with online orders. Walmart is adopting measures designed to reduce the amount of packaging waste associated with online orders. This includes moving from plastic to recyclable paper mailers, right-sizing cardboard box packaging, giving customers the option to consolidate shipping on e-commerce orders, opting out of single-use plastic bags…
Read More >>Trinity Packaging Supply (Trinity) launched its new e-commerce website, powered by SupplyStream, which aggregates hundreds of supplier catalogs into one main storefront. This online storefront offers packaging’s largest catalog of 80,000+ custom and stock products with next-day delivery and low pricing. Just as Airbnb and Uber changed the hospitality and transportation industries, this first-of-its-kind software is…
Read More >>SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, has joined forces with Stella McCartney Beauty and three renowned French plastic converters (Texen, Leygatech and STTP Emballage) to create a set of innovative new skin and eye care refill containers produced with certified renewable polymers from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio. The containers, which have already been introduced…
Read More >>With a focus on maximizing production uptime and efficiency for the packaging industry, Sidel has leveraged the latest in automation technology to develop Bottle Switch- an innovative changeover solution. Bottle Switch solutions have been designed for the Sidel EvoBLOW range and can specifically be applied to gravimetric preform feeders, ovens and blowing wheels to support a quick…
Read More >>Summer-ready margaritas and paloma cocktails made with real fruit are now available in portable and sustainable cartons. Dulce Vida Tequila launched three new ready-to-drink cocktails in Tetra Brik® Aseptic 1000 Square cartons. Offering sustainability benefits at each stage of its life cycle, Tetra Pak® cartons are made primarily from paperboard, a renewable, plant-based material, and are recyclable, making them a…
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A-B-C has a solution for craft brewers who want to automate their bulk bottle unloading in the Model 108 depalletizer that offers simple and reliable operation with features for maximum bottle stability and smooth handling. It has a small footprint for reduced installation costs and a low level design for easy access and maintenance. With…
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PET Industry Tackles Climate Change Together By Francesca Bellucci, Global Sustainability Director at Sidel The PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage packaging industry is taking the challenge of climate change seriously. It has two main areas of focus: reducing emissions and finding new material solutions. Beverage producers are setting ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not…
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Package Design Earns a Place for Beverages in Consumers’ Hands and Hearts By Moira Stein, Insights & Strategy at Berlin Packaging Ales, lagers, porters, stouts, pilsners, IPAs, and more. There are over 100 distinct styles of beer. Some are light and malty while others are strong and hoppy. Each has its distinctive taste, scent, color,…
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Three Converging e-Commerce Forces Accelerate Automation By Derik Pridmore, CEO and co-founder of OSARO If you look across any e-commerce warehouse today, you’ll find plenty of automation relentlessly moving mountains of product. Conveyors, cross belt sorters, and AMRs have all proliferated in distribution centers. Yet, people have been essential to the last, crucial step of…
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Online Retailing Tools Spur Growth in E-commerce Operations By Bradley Dunlap, director of product marketing for Industrial Packaging at Shurtape Technologies LLC When Amazon and eBay launched in the mid-1990s, they weren’t the first e-commerce platforms in existence. But they were the entities that revolutionized the industry. The two online shopping behemoths ushered in a…
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The FDA listing clears the way for CJ Biomaterials’ amorphous PHA to be used in the manufacture of food contact materials sold in the U.S. Amorphous polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) produced by CJ Biomaterials, Inc., a division of South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang, is now included in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances…
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Trayforma BarrPeel by Stora Enso is a sustainable barrier-coated paperboard material for pressed trays — an ideal solution for vacuum packaging cold cuts, single portion meats, fish, and cheese. It consists of 90% renewable wood fibers, keeping plastic usage to a minimum and significantly reducing the packaging’s carbon footprint. Vacuum-sealed skin packaging extends the shelf…
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Cremer, a leading global supplier of product counting machines for a wide array of applications, has introduced a smaller-scale version of its HQS 1250 Compact Counting & Dispensing Machine, designed specifically for gummy applications in the cannabis, nutraceutical and confectionary sectors. Developed in partnership with filler manufacturer Spee-Dee, the latest configuration is a trimmed down yet still-customizable iteration…
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Niche Cocoa Industry Ltd is Ghana’s largest fully integrated cocoa processor, and the move into aseptic beverage production marks a significant milestone, introducing Ghana’s first and only locally produced and aseptically bottled chocolate milk in PET packaging. “We selected Sidel because of its leadership in aseptic beverage production and packaging design,” said Edmund A. Poku,…
Read More >>The International Safe Transit Association (ISTA), the leading industry developer of pre-shipment performance testing standards for packaged products, today released a new testing protocol that will allow companies to simulate the many hazards encountered when product orders are shipped directly to consumers through the e-commerce retailer fulfillment systems employed by companies like Amazon.com, Walmart, Sam’s…
Read More >>As the cannabis industry continues to grow and the category becomes considerably more crowded, impactful and effective packaging is more important than ever. The latest trends impacting the cannabis industry according to experts at Berlin Packaging are: 1. Smart Packaging: Smart Packaging can monitor freshness, provide ingredient, nutrient, and health specifications, display information about a brand or…
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Interpack 2023 Showcases Innovative Materials and New Technology By Doris Bünnagel, an independent editor specializing in packaging Baked goods are popular and the variety worldwide is correspondingly large. Whether from the supermarket shelf or as frozen delivery – bread, bread rolls, croissants, pastries and cakes are sensitive foodstuffs that place high demands on production processes and packaging.…
Read More >>Systech, part of Markem-Imaje and Dover (NYSE: DOV), a leading provider of digital identification and traceability software solutions, announced a series of services designed to help customers in the pharmaceutical supply chain meet Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) interoperability requirements by the November 27 deadline. Systech now offers three new service packages in conjunction with its software to help manufacturers…
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New Technology Expands Packaging Reuse By Christopher Morgan, Global Sales Director at Filtrona Tapes For many years the life cycle of packaging has been limited to the moment of purchase, with boxes thrown away once their protective function was over. Over time, however, the significant increase in waste of all kinds – including that derived from packaging…
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Discover Food Processing & Packaging Solutions, May 4-10 at interpack By Doris Bünnagel, freelance packaging editor on behalf of Messe Düsseldorf Food packaging today is so much more than just protecting the individual product. It is true that the most important function, from the moment of packaging throughout transport, storage and retail, is to ensure that the…
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