Featured In Packaging Digest Brand owners are switching from plastic to paper packaging to become more sustainable. How is their choice affecting the paper-packaging market? Kate Bertrand Connolly 1 | May 03, 2023 __________________________ As more brand owners switch from plastic to paper-based packaging to boost sustainability, the paper-packaging market is changing. The moving parts include …
Corona launched a new, circular form of packaging for six-packs — harnessing surplus barley straw to create a sustainable paper packaging solution. Barley seed will continue to make the beer, but barley straw, a leftover from farmers’ harvests, will now be used through a unique pulping process built to handle its relative fragility. Corona is reportedly the …
In developed and maturing markets, food and beverage manufacturers are struggling with slowing growth and are therefore, seeking new growth opportunities. The challenge is establishing the right consumer space to identify the right customers and create the right kind of products. It’s a similar story for emerging markets where the challenge is to provide relevant …
Company says it has exceeded its target reduction of the weight of its global packaging by 50,000 metric tonnes. Kraft Heinz has announced plans to make 100 per cent of its packaging “globally recyclable, reusable or compostable” by 2025. The company has set “science-based” goals to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and improve the sustainability of its supply …
At the beginning of next year, magazine publishers will be paying about 25% more for paper than they did just 18 months earlier — assuming they can find any paper to buy. There are no signs that the scarce supply and rising prices afflicting all U.S. buyers of publication papers will abate in 2019. Magazine-quality …
With consumer concern growing around food packaging safety, brand owners can build trust by proactively developing an approach to ‘clean packaging’ and communicating it to consumers. Clean food has been making its way onto menus for more than a decade, and as more and more consumers demand transparency around what they’re eating, some are beginning …
Known all over the world as the brand parents trust when it comes to baby health and wellness, Johnson’s Baby just went through a reset that included a 70% reduction in the number of bottle and closure styles. For the first time in its long and notable history, Johnson & Johnson recently re-staged an entire …
On April 20, Nintendo released a new line of accessories for its best-selling Switch game console. Rather than being digital add-ons, they were physical ones: punch-and-fold parts engineered to turn the Switch console into a piano, a fishing rod or a robot. All are made of cardboard. On March 4, Walmart ads shown during the …
Corrugated packaging is said to have to been born in 1817, exactly two centuries ago, in England. Since then, known by various names, the humble cardboard box has come a long way from being first used as reliable packaging for cereal boxes. I own a candy business, and only recently realized the practicality and ease …
A discussion about the environmental benefits of maximizing recovered content in paper packaging versus using virgin fiber is one of those complex topics that, when simplified to make it easy to understand, might miss important details critical to really comprehending the issue. Last fall, the Forest Track at the SPC Advance conference was wrapped up with an …