Jan/Feb 2024

Packaging World Jan/Feb 2024

Mono-material Cheese Pack Launch Coincides with Recycling Center

The PP mono-material pack provides high barriers against oxygen and water vapor, keeping the product fresh on the shelf. It also protects the cheese with high puncture resistance. And printability allows the brand and recycling messages to pop.

February 21, 2024

The mono-material solution provides high barriers against oxygen and water vapor, keeping the product fresh on the supermarket shelf. It also protects the cheese with high puncture resistance.

Accessible Lidding Your Partner Won't Have to Open For You

Traditional jarred products on a store shelf require more than 40 in-lb of torque to open, with some requiring more than 50 in-lb of torque. With the EEASY Lid, it only takes an average of 9 in-lb of torque to open a jar.

February 16, 2024

Chilau Foods, a line of southern-inspired stew bases and spices, adopted the EEASY Lid by Consumer Convenience Technologies (CCT) for all of its products in a move it says will provide consumers with a new level of accessibility.

Vapor Transmission Rates in Barrier Flexible Packaging

Water vapor transfer rate testing is complex, time-consuming, not always repeatable, and challenging to interpret. But it's critical none the less.

February 12, 2024

Sterling Anthony, CPP

Column: Secret Synergies Between Packaging and Entertainment

Where else but the characteristically multi-disciplinary field of packaging can skills gleaned hosting pub trivia make an impact on the design and engineering behind the look and feel of a product you see on the shelf?

February 9, 2024

Pub trivia hosts learn a lot about how people think by reading through contestants wildly disparate answers to seemingly simple questions. Chris O'Clair parlays that into packaging design.

‘Historic’ COP28 Summit Foresees End of Fossil Fuel Era

A rare consensus of opinion at the event is being applauded, criticized, and dismissed by observers at every point on the climate change scale. That consensus was reached at all was still a surprise for most.

February 8, 2024

COP28 Agreement Signals “Beginning of the End” of the Fossil Fuel Era

The Long Reach of FDA Accusations

Regulators don't only pick on the biggest companies. In a world of complicated chains of commerce involving multiple actors making and moving and bringing packaged products to market, no link of the supply chain is entirely safe from scrutiny.

February 7, 2024

Eric F. Greenberg

Active, Intelligent, Connected, & Otherwise 'Smart' Packaging Hits its Stride

The stars are aligning on multiple relevant fronts: consumer behavior, legislation, technology, and data management and capacity. This confluence of advancements is slowly but surely unlocking the potential of active and intelligent packaging.

January 27, 2024

Active and Intelligent Packaging Association’s (AIPIA) 2023 World Congress, Amsterdam.

PRS23: Collaboration is Key to Driving Recycling Success

Stakeholders spanning the full recycling value chain gather at the inaugural Packaging Recycling Summit to share solutions for more effective, profitable, and sustainable recycling of packaging materials in the U.S.

January 25, 2024

Package Recycling

Packaging Legislation Update and 2024 Outlook

AMERIPEN provides updates on existing EPR legislation, along with insights on what to expect from state and federal packaging policy this year.

January 24, 2024

Packaging Legislation

Chobani Pursues ‘Living and Breathing’ Packaging Graphics

Greek yogurt company Chobani shares its strategies for creating compelling packaging designs, with Chobani Creations and its ‘Halloween takeover’ as examples.

January 22, 2024

Chobani packaging graphics

Automating Snack Bag Line Cuts Labor Costs by 40%

Two continuous-motion baggers feed into a single case packing operation that has made it possible for Darlington Snacks to double production while cutting labor costs.

January 11, 2024

Viking Masek Vertical Form Fill Seal

The Case for Concentrates in Smaller Packs in the Era of Shrinkflation

Tanu Grewal of Pinalen, Cloralen, and Ensueno Laundry cleaner brands: smaller packs of concentrated cleaning product improves sustainability profiles without short-changing consumers. But are consumers wary of 'shrinkflation?'

January 9, 2024

The Case for Concentrates in Smaller Packs in the Era of Shrinkflation

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