February 2021

8
Feb

COVID-19 and Packaging Design: One Year Later

As we embrace 2021, here are four lessons we learned from the pandemic that packaging designers can build on. …

5
Feb

How Antimicrobial Nanotubes in Packaging Can Revolutionize Food Safety

Nanoencapsulation of natural or synthetic antimicrobial agents into food packaging can help ensure the product is safe for consumption. The technology also helps extend shelf life and reduce food waste cost effectively and safely for humans and the environment. …

5
Feb

Effective Marketing Tactics for Cannabis Businesses

Packaging is one of several ways to market your cannabis product to customers. Are you leveraging it successfully? …

4
Feb

Early 2021 Packaging Trend: Back to Business (Sort Of)

Learning from COVID-19 past/present/future, focusing on sustainability goals, and creating packages that entice consumers to “add to cart” (virtually now more than ever) show how packaging operations are being run these days. …

3
Feb

Valentine’s Day Packaging Reflects New Trends Like COVID and Cannabis

Brands offer trendy safe-at-home packaged options this year from heart-shaped chicken nuggets to ecommerce boxed shots to cannabis-infused chocolate. …

3
Feb

New Machine Seals Preformed Medical Trays with Roll-Fed Lidding

The Roll-Feed Aergo 2 Plus eliminates manual placement of cut lids while providing a faster, more efficient way of sealing medical trays with Tyvek lidding from rollstock. …

2
Feb

Could Mexico’s New Warning Labels Trigger Labeling Laws Elsewhere?

Required front-of-pack (FOP) declarations on all prepackaged food and non-alcoholic beverages sold in Mexico could inspire Latin American or other countries to establish their own labeling regulations as well. …

1
Feb

All-in-One Robot Simplifies Packaging Tasks

A simple, low-cost 6-axis unit packs full-scale tooling, control, and networking capabilities for pick-and-place, parts handling, and palletizing applications. …