Consumers are continually changing the way they view, interact with and discard packaging. Whether you're a manufacturer or a product marketer, you know how important it is to reflect the changing needs of the consumer in your products. ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Consumer Packaging
Package recyclability is a major driving factor affecting purchasing decisions by both product manufacturers and their customers. Not only does product packaging account for a significant space in landfills, but many of the current disposal ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Packaging
UK-based rigid plastics packaging manufacturer RPC Group has selected clear polypropylene (PP) for sustainable packaging application for some of its products. The company uses PP for majority of its thermoformed, blow molded and thin ...
Tags: rigid plastics, Polypropylene
US-based metal packaging supplier Ball has unveiled its new printing technology called Matte & Gloss to enhance shelf appeal of aerosol cans and beverage bottles at the 28th FEA International Aerosol Congress in Madrid, Spain. ...
Adam Gendell,iproject manager at GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition -- Packaging Digest, 10/1/2013 12:52:00 PM The way we think about sustainability and packaging today has come quite a long way from where it used to be. What ...
Tags: Sustainable Packaging
ConAgra Foods, in partnership with Graphic Packaging Intl., has launched a new premium frozen-food tray incorporating two innovative technologies; DesignerWare, a paperboard/plastic hybrid, and MicroRite, which provides shielding ...
Tags: Packaging, frozen-food tray
It is essential that brands get it right first time, especially with increasing pressure to maintain sales during periods of difficult market conditions and on crowded retail shelves. A good package delivers a visual narrative about the ...
Consumers worldwide are spearheading a rising demand for packaging made from renewable materials and products with labelling clearly displaying environmental data, Tetra Pak's fifth biennial environment survey has found. The report also ...
Environmental Packaging International (EPI) and Sustainable Packaging Alliance (SPA) have signed an agreement to establish channel partnership in the North American market. EPI will sell licenses to Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool ...
Tags: Packaging, Environmental Packaging
Environmental consultancy Environmental Packaging International (EPI) will sell licences for the Australian-developed PIQET life cycle assessment (LCA) tool for packaging in North America under a channel partnership with Australia's ...
Canada-based food packaging firm CKF has acquired Earthcycle Packaging, a provider of renewable and recyclable packaging products. According to CKF, the acquisition will enable the company to enter into new markets with an expanded ...
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CKF, a Canada-based food packaging company, has acquired Vancouver-based Earthcycle Packaging, which caters to the agriculture and produce industries, for an undisclosed amount. Established in 2005, Earthcycle has been awarded and ...
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Smithers Pira, in association with Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, will be returning to Orlando, FL, in March 2014 for the 8th annual Sustainability in Packaging conference and exhibition. This year's event ...
Cosmetic companies are making slow progress in reducing their packaging footprints. Although the cosmetics industry has become preoccupied with green initiatives, few steps have been made to tackle the environmental impact of packaging. ...
Tags: Cosmetic, Cosmetic Packaging, Printing
A few months back, I read an article in Packaging Digest about consumers taking responsibility for "green actions." After citing some statistics about how a "record-high 71 percent of Americans" are "buying with an eye toward green," the ...