January 2021
COVID-19 and Food Packaging: One Year Later
Shifts caused by the pandemic in the availability, purchase, and use of packaging materials for foods and beverages for foodservice and retail linger. What materials remain popular and why? …
Will 2021 Be the Breakout Year for Additive Manufacturing?
3D printing technology is moving beyond its decades-long role as a prototyping tool. The technology’s value as a production process has been the Holy Grail for additive manufacturing. 2021 may be the year it booms. …
How to Build a Better Conveyor System
Here are some detailed pointers to building an efficient, productive, and safe conveyor system. …
Brainstorming Flexible Packaging Sustainability: 80 Experts, 1,500 Ideas
Virtual gathering of 80 experts including brand owners like Mars, PepsiCo, and Whole Foods and other stakeholders took aim at zero-waste food packaging. …
Can Tupperware and Loop Transform the Perception of Plastics?
Durable plastic packaging can have a long, useful, positive life that fits in with a sustainable mindset, as a new partnership is eager to prove. …
Technology’s Next Big Thing? Putting People Back into the Equation
A broad view of Industry 5.0, the factory of the future, clearly presented for all to understand. …
Pop Culture at Its Finest: Today Is #BubbleWrapDay
We pop-pop-pop a virtual celebratory roll of the icon bubbly packaging with diverse examples of how Bubble Wrap Day is celebrated. …
When is Compostable Packaging the Right Option?
To help decide whether to use compostable packaging for your product or not, ask yourself these five questions. …
Vaccines Bestow Business Boost to Packaging
A look ahead to the next seven years predicts income from the packaging and storage of vaccines will almost double for materials suppliers globally. …
10 Eye-Opening Packaging Design Trends
This refreshing two-minute video serves up emerging packaging design trends that are as energetic as the soundtrack. …