December 2019

This year marks the end of an incredibly eventful decade on so many levels. Thought-leader Nina Goodrich breaks down the sustainability advancements and challenges packaging professionals have experienced in the last decade, year by year. The world of sustainable packaging has definitely changed over the last 10 years. Here’s how. 2010-2012In the early part…

Packaging professionals tend to be curious, intelligent people. They wonder about anything and everything related to packaging, such as materials, design, formats, troubleshooting and other aspects of the industry. At Packaging Digest, we satisfy that constant curiosity by researching, writing and posting articles on a variety of packaging-pertinent topics. We chat…

Packaging is an ever-evolving industry. Experts constantly look for ways to innovate in materials, formats, technology and scores of other areas. Professionals perpetually monitor trends and, at the same time, harness their expertise to try and anticipate what’s coming down the pike.That doesn’t mean, though, that what’s packaging news today is…

The past 12 months may or may not have been pretty in your overall world, but in the world of packaging, they were beautiful.The most-read packaging design-related articles from Packaging Digest reflect an industry full of creative minds and innovative thinkers. Faced with the challenge of coming up with functional packages…

WestPack 2020 (Anaheim, CA, Feb. 11-13) will offer myriad learning opportunities for medical packaging professionals, with a conference program delivering packaging education and training in multiple formats.The show’s conference program comprises two Innovation Summit tracks—the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Summit and the 3D Printing Innovation Summit—and eight Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M)…

If you’re in the field of packaging, chances are you’re also well versed in sustainability. You almost have to be because the two concerns conjoin these days more often than not. As we reviewed our best-read articles of the year, we realized that most articles we posted on PackagingDigest.com in 2019…

Robots, easy-clean machine designs and self-contained automation devices were on packaging engineers wish lists this year—as evidenced by their interest in news about packaging equipment delivering production benefits, thanks to these features.Based on page views, here are the top three packaging-machinery-related articles we posted over the last year, starting from the…

The packaging education and training opportunities at WestPack 2020 (Feb. 11-13; Anaheim, CA) will be numerous and diverse, with much to offer packaging production engineers interested in the smart manufacturing tier of automation.WestPack’s expansive conference program comprises three multi-track channels—the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Summit, the 3D Printing Innovation Summit and the…

Digital healthcare, the opioid crisis and updates to ISO standards for medical packaging headlined our pharmaceutical and medical coverage in 2019. Based on page views, here are the top three articles of the year related to pharmaceutical and medical device packaging:3. Notable changes to ISO medical packaging standards explainedIn 2020, the…

You need a strong knowledge base to build a career on. In the highly regulated field of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, we can help. Several “Packaging 101” articles scored well with readers this year, earning mention as some of the top topics of 2019 even though they were published in earlier…