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Materials & Containers
Top 10 of 2023 – No. 8: Refill-at-home Packaging Taking Off Across All Categories
2023 may have bene the year of the at-home refill solutions. From D2C startups, reusable/refillable packaging has found its way into retail, in markets that include household cleaning, personal and oral care, lawn care, and luxury brands, to name a few.
December 26, 2023
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Flexible Packaging
A Look at Converters of Flexible Barrier Packaging
These converters are construction specialists.
November 20, 2023
Flexible Packaging at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
Flexible Packaging
Plant-Based Cat Litter Answers Call for Fully Recyclable Paper Packaging
Responding to consumer calls for easily recyclable packaging, natural pet products producer Healthy Pet introduces a fully-recyclable paper bag with paper handle for its ökocat cat litter.
November 8, 2023
The new packaging for Healthy Pet’s ökocat natural litter is a double-wall paper bag with a multi-wrapped paper handle that is glued in-between the layers of the bag for extra strength and durability.
Materials & Containers
Skincare Brand Eyes Bio-Film Sachets Made of Plant-Ingredient Waste
British skincare brand Elemis is launching a project with Morro, the commercial supplier arm of Xampla, to convert leftover plant waste from its own products' ingredients into bio-film for sample sachets.
October 17, 2023
The project aims to turn leftover plant waste from Elemis product ingredients into biofilm, with the long-term goal of replacing single-use sachets used to package samples of its skincare products.
Flexible Packaging
Choices in Barrier Flexible Packaging
Here are some ways to enhance the barrier properties of flexible packaging.
October 16, 2023
Sterling Anthony
Package Design
Stealthily Healthy Tropicana Design Reassures Parents, Engages Kids
For this all-new entry into the kids' smoothie category, designers had to both reassure health- and nutrition-minded parents on the shelf with a trusted brand, while still delighting kids at the breakfast table, lunch table, soccer practice, or beyond.
October 10, 2023
The multipack carton is designed with parents' eyelines in mind. The trusted brand and product variety--smoothie for kids, not juice--resides atop the pack since the bottom half can be obscured in retail chillers on on-shelf in refrigerated cases.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Doubling Down on BOPE Materials at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, TC Transcontinental revealed its big bet on recyclable monomaterial BOPE films, with a new $60 million BOPE facility. These films still rely on consumers to use store drop-off, but infrastructure and adoption are improving.
September 27, 2023
Kellogg's, Sam's Club Member's Mark, and Nature's Path are all brands or store brands who have switched to recyclable monomaterial BOPE pouches from TC Transcontinental for some applications.
Flexible Packaging
Tyson Launches Recycle-Ready Pack for Egg Products
This ‘first-to-market’ package for Jimmy Dean egg bites and frittatas uses a mono-material flexible film construction that is store drop-off recyclable.
September 15, 2023
Tyson Foods sustainable packgaging
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Reusable Bags, Boxes Offer Simplicity for Circular B2C
Boox’s reusable products have been picked up by Goop brand and others in the B2C space.
September 14, 2023
Boox bag
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Pat's Picks Podcast: Day One Observations at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
Push & Dose sprinkle pouch technology, height-adjustable labeling, small footprint cup counter/loader, high speed case former and labeling—this and more in Pat Reynolds' Day One PACK EXPO Las Vegas podcast.
September 11, 2023
Pat Reynolds, contributing editor, live at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
Flexible Packaging
First Use of New Pouch Technology
Inside the pouch is a food-grade membrane heat sealed to the pouch material. Laser-cut into this membrane are slits that widen into holes when a consumer squeezes the top of the pouch, thus releasing product in a sprinkle-like dosing fashion.
August 25, 2023
Push & Dose is a bottom-gusseted standup pouch with a perforated tear-off top that holds 1 to 3 oz of product depending on product density.
Materials & Containers
Quilted Northern Launches Recyclable Paper Packaging in a National Brand First
The paper toilet paper packaging will eliminate approximately 500,000 pounds of plastic waste each year, the company says, and testing shows the format to be comparable to its predecessor in performance and function.
July 7, 2023
The packaging passed repulpability and recyclability testing per protocol by an independent third-party testing facility.
Package Design
Column: Is HolyGrail 2.0 Proving Viable at Scale?
As the EU looks to implement measures that could mean fines for brands and producers not using PCR in plastic packaging, more circular packaging is becoming a business imperative. Digital watermarking is a promising way to accomplish circularity.
June 27, 2023
Packaging waste sortation at a materials recovery facility (MRF).
Package Design
Do Marketing and Packaging Structure Go Hand-in-Hand?
A lot of attention is focused on packaging sustainability and packaging’s ability to perform other functions, from clearly demonstrating the product and its value-added benefits to delivering the product undamaged via e-commerce.
April 28, 2023
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Business Intelligence
Flexible Plastic Films Push for Recycling Expansion
Flexible plastic films could grow faster than plastics overall in the coming years, but recycling infrastructure improvements are needed to support these materials.
April 14, 2023
Flexible plastic films are expected to grow in popularity faster than overall plastic in coming years.
Flexible Packaging
2023 FPA Awards Emphasize Both Form and Function
A common theme among the flexible packaging applications that earned recognition as 2023 Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) Award winners is their ability to strike a balance between eye-catching aesthetics and performance in product protection.
March 30, 2023
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Flexible Packaging
Paper Packaging Expands to Reckitt’s Dishwasher Tablets
Reckitt develops a paper-based pouch for its Finish dishwasher tablets that replaces 75% of plastic with responsibly sourced paper while maintaining barrier properties to protect against moisture.
March 3, 2023
Introduced in Carrefour retail stores in France in the fall of last year, the paper-based pouch is the culmination of a multi-step process by Reckitt to ‘achieve the ultimate pack in terms of sustainability.’
Flexible Packaging
Shower Cream Refill Now in a 100% Recyclable Pouch
The mono-material pouch, for Japanese company Lion Corp.’s Shokubutsu Monogatari brand in Thailand, uses polyethylene film made from tenter-frame biaxial orientation.
March 1, 2023
Japanese beauty care brand Shokubutsu Monogatari is hitting all of the three R’s—Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.—with a new 100% recyclable pouch construction for its shower cream refills in Thailand.
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