September 2020
Survey Reveals Consumers’ Attitudes About Food Packaging
Some 1,100 consumers were asked about their packaged food buying habits related to labels, Covid-19, sustainability, and other key issues. …
Assessing the Blowmolding Suitability of rPET Resins
Key attributes for molders to evaluate and brands to know when considering adding recycled PET to your packaging. …
Pandemic Boosts Demand for Harvest Pack’s Eco-Friendly Packaging
Business is booming for the brother-sister team’s compostable and easily recyclable food packaging. …
Absolut is Perfecting Paper Bottles for Spirits
Details on the development, the barrier, recycling, and more ahead of the next stage — consumer testing. …
What’s Happening in Advanced Recycling Now
Sorting through the plastic packaging recycling options of dissolution, depolymerization, pyrolysis, and gasification. …
Balancing Sterile Barrier Packaging and Sterilization Requirements
The use of terminal sterilization for medical devices links packaging and sterilization decisions. Two experts tackle industry questions from a recent Webinar. …
Man Loses Sleep Over Failed Packaging Design
A graphic designer can use a variety of design tools to differentiate products in a line. An easy one is simply changing colors. That’s why this #PackagingFail never should have happened. …
Today’s Case Packers Tap Robotics for Flexibility
Constantly changing packaging requirements from brand owners and co-packers push new case packer technologies and higher performance. …
In-the-Field Plant Stories: Dole Hawaii
This 1985 food plant visit to the island of Oahu involved pineapple of course, but a dwarf, machete, and marijuana all played unexpected roles. …
9 Things to Know About Recyclable HD-BOPE Resin
An update on Nova Chemicals’ HD-BOPE resin that enables the production of recyclable barrier materials for food packaging, ecommerce, and other markets. …