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…
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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…
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…
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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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Succeeding in the Online Marketplace Takes the Right Strategies, Solutions, and a Whole Lot of Agility By: Joe Schewe, Director of Design and Engineering at RRD It comes as no surprise that the pandemic changed consumer habits — in particular, the accelerated growth of e-commerce. According to a report by Insider Intelligence, U.S. e-commerce sales…
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Five Ways Packaging Brands Can Stand Out From the Crowd Online By Yoav Kutner, CEO and co-founder of Oro, Inc. The packaging industry has never had it so good. The pandemic sent consumers online for everything from groceries to healthcare supplies to luxury items — leading to a surge in packaging purchases with e-commerce sales…
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Best Practices for Circular and Sustainable Packaging By Allison Berg, Sustainability Manager at DS Smith With the unprecedented expansion of e-commerce, packaging is now ubiquitous in our daily lives. E-commerce sales were $870 billion in the US in 2021, a 14.2% increase over 2020 and a 50.5% increase over 2019 – and growth in online shopping is…
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Designed for high-volume environments, EPS-2011 Series e-commerce packaging system handles up to 40 packages per minute. Automating e-commerce packaging operations is an efficient and cost-effective way to keep up with this consumer shopping trend that shows no signs of slowing down. That is why Texwrap, a leader in the design and manufacture of fully automated…
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Succeeding in the Online Marketplace Takes the Right Strategies, Solutions, and a Whole Lot of Agility By: Joe Schewe, Director of Design and Engineering at RRD It comes as no surprise that the pandemic changed consumer habits — in particular, the accelerated growth of e-commerce. According to a report by Insider Intelligence, U.S. e-commerce sales…
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Efficient Packaging Means Less Waste and Lower Costs By Alicemarie Geoffrion, President, Packaging Operations, DHL Supply Chain, North America Packaging has become a strategic component of the entire supply chain, especially for many e-commerce providers who do not have the luxury of delaying orders until the next day. Meeting consumer demand for faster delivery times…
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Increased e-commerce packaging demand is leading more direct fulfillment centers to focus on case sealing automation. The continuing surge in direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipments due to e-commerce growth has actually created a growing number of supply chain challenges for direct fulfillment centers (DFCs), from labor shortages to a higher number of damaged packages. Sometimes new challenges…
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New ProCommerce Vertical Bagging Series from Rennco Provides Bubble-Wrapped Packaging for e-Commerce
Rennco’s new ProCommerce Vertical Bagging Series provides right-sized bubble-wrapped packaging for sensitive or more fragile products for your e-Commerce applications. The new ProCommerce Vertical Bagging Series from Rennco, a ProMach brand, produces custom bag sizes lined with bubble mailing material for e-Commerce applications. Rennco is a leading manufacturer of vertical semi-automatic and automatic bagging solutions…
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RRD helped Levain Bakery™ meet a 200% increase in e-commerce demand during the pandemic. Leveraging RRD’s expertise, Levain has transformed from a New York City institution to a national brand. RRD, a leading global provider of marketing and business communications, helped Levain Bakery™ meet a 200% increase in e-commerce demand during the pandemic. The 26-year-old…
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Demand is growing for faster digital printing and specialized ink due to coding and labeling requirements, and new consumer preferences. By Kristin Adams, Marketing Manager at Kao Collins New risks have cast a shadow on 2021’s robust economic recovery. Businesses are struggling to meet the pent-up consumer demand that grew during the global pandemic. Further,…
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Automating e-commerce operations provides a path for growth by adding speed and accuracy By David Nettles, Director of Sales, Texwrap Packaging Systems Effectively managing a business’s e-commerce operation can be challenging, especially when it comes to the packaging process. For many companies, e-commerce packaging is a labor-intensive endeavor that is not a very efficient operation.…
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Amazon suppliers are shaping industry standards for sustainable manufacturing and materials. By William J. Madl, Marketing Consultant Amazon has been doing business since 1994, originally founded by Jeff Bezos out of his garage. Starting with over $20,000 in sales weekly, his company has gone on to reach $100 billion in revenue to date, is responsible…
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By: Sean Riley, Senior Director, Media and Industry Communications at PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies The value of U.S. domestic shipments of packaging machinery is estimated to have been worth $9.4 billion in 2020, according to the 2021 State of the Industry – U.S. Packaging Machinery Report produced by PMMI Business Intelligence,…
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As eCommerce explodes, protective plastic packing materials must decline, and fast. By Lorne Herszkowicz, Partner at HexcelPack As eCommerce continues to escalate, we must wrap our hands around product shipping wrap to ensure optimal sustainability and eco-friendliness into the future. While environmentalists were already bracing for the glut of padded mailers, corrugated fiberboard, shrink wrap,…
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