Packaging Digest
Beiersdorf Launches First Certified Renewable Plastic Packaging
SABIC-assisted move from fossil fuel sources is a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for Nivea’s Naturally Good personal face-care products. …
Recycling Taco Bell’s Hot Sauce Packets: 7 Takeaways
Taco Bell is working with upcycler TerraCycle to collect and recycle 8-million-plus hot sauce packets in the US starting with a pilot this year. …
Will You Be Ready for WestPack 2021?
As more people receive their COVID-19 vaccines, the US slowly returns to business-as-before. One sure sign is that many manufacturing professionals say they are open to attending in-person events later this year. Are you? …
How to Robotically Handle Trays for Parts Packaging
There’s one big pitfall in automating your work-in-process parts assembly with dunnage trays: Locating trays by the flange. Understand thermoforming basics to sidestep this common mistake and prevent costly downtime. …
Michelob Ultra Taps 100% Renewable Solar Power Electricity
Anheuser-Busch debuts a new “brewed with 100% renewable electricity from solar power” seal starting with Michelob Ultra Pure Gold packaging. …
Packaging Possibilities: How Packaging Sustainability Connects to Climate Change
Sustainability visionary Nina Goodrich expounds on insights from Earth Day founder Denis Hayes, the implications of the US rejoining The Paris Agreement on climate change, using carbon as a uniform measurement (or not), and an exciting program for SPC Impact 2021, happening now. …
Black Forest Takes a Forests-First Approach to Sustainable Packaging
The gummy and fruit snacks packager has a packaging portfolio founded on paper sourced from sustainable forests that it supports directly. …
Curiosities from the National Bottle Museum
From a bottle in a buried ship to a bizarre “baby bottle” to an ingenious early anti-theft method, every bottle at the museum has a story to tell. Here are staff favorites. …
It’s Not Too Late for Contract Packagers to Help Vaccine Distribution
Four tips for choosing a serialization solution provider will open new pharmaceutical opportunities when the FDA’s temporary exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines expire. …
3 Trends Packaging Execs Embrace in a Post-Pandemic World
COVID-19 spurred rapid technology adoption to cope with workforce, operational, and supply chain upsets. The benefits of new technologies — from wearable sensors to blockchain and IoT — are so compelling that companies are keeping them. …