Ryan Ruskin
Huge US Potential for Plant-Based Products and Packaging
Fresh research finds that 59% of consumers are interested in products and packaging made from plants, an estimated market of more than 136 million people. …
Modernized Alcoholic Beverage Regulations Spur Label Updates
The Bureau’s first major update in decades affects labeling for distilled spirits, wine, beer, and hard seltzers. Surprisingly, it gives industry greater flexibility in certain areas, including loosening some COVID-19 restrictions. …
An Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment for Packaging
An expert presentation on Life-Cycle Assessments for Packaging: What You Need to Know proved as fascinating as it was informative. …
Rebranded WestPack 2021 Reflects Its Forward Movement
Informa Markets – Engineering, owner of the popular PACK events, unveils a comprehensive rebrand for the 2021 WestPack event in Anaheim, CA. …
Amazon Brings Machine Learning to Ecommerce Packaging
Advanced algorithms determine which items to take out of the box and put into envelope mailers, significantly reducing the etailer’s carbon footprint. …
Most Popular Colors for Food and Beverage Packaging Design
Pixels from 2,422 packaged product images from Walmart’s online grocery service were analyzed by an algorithm to determine the most common food and beverage design colors by category. …
The ‘Magic’ Colors of Food and Beverage Packaging Design
Analysis across 10 categories and nearly 2,500 grocery products reveals which hues are commonly used to assist and influence consumers’ buying habits. …
What Progress Have We Seen in Packaging Sustainability This Year?
Packaging sustainability has advanced in 2020, despite the year’s almost insurmountable health, social, and economic challenges. The industry has taken deep strides in flexible packaging recycling, circular economy commitments, and plastic waste redu …
Your Chance to Drive Innovation in Medical Device Packaging
Kilmer Innovations in Packaging offers packaging engineers the chance to collaborate on four important challenges facing the industry, explained speakers during Virtual Engineering Week. …
5 Tips to Creating a Recyclable Flexible Package
Many flexible packages may claim they are recyclable, but far fewer truly are — here are five ways to ensure that your recycling claims are valid. …