General Mills and P&G outline how brand owners are going beyond EPR compliance by subsidizing film recovery via USFFI and CalFFlex, investing in new technology, and collaborating with converters to ...

Aaron Thomas Company Inc. has opened an 87ꯠ-sq-ft manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facility in Bolingbrook, IL, southwest of Chicago. This is the 32-year-old company’s third facility. Aaron ...

It was quite some time ago, back in 2015, so basically 10 years ago, and we were working with Shazam [music identification app], and Shazam was doing a lot of scanning both on-pack, but also on their ...

Humanoid robot technology has advanced quickly since Packaging World first covered it in 2023. In the first of this three-part series revisiting humanoid robots as a potential packaging labor solution ...

Why the need for EPR data harmonization? Brands and CPGs—any entity deemed to be a producer, really—are challenged with collecting and reporting on sustainability data to meet evolving regulatory ...

When new sustainably-focused health and wellness beverage brand Power Hydration introduced its alkaline water product to consumers in Southern California this summer, it assumed bragging rights for a ...

· Summit Brewing’s Nialas line uses an adventure-inspired packaging system to appeal to the active lifestyle of today’s non-alcoholic beer consumers. · Design elements such as illustrated outdoor ...

A central question among brand owners has been whether 2D barcodes will be required or voluntary. Chuck Lasley, CTO at Dillard’s, answered this clearly at GS1 US's Amplify event: “We’re going to give ...

Keynote presentations from Amazon and Microsoft at SPC Impact 2025 in Seattle today offered a rare side-by-side look at how two global tech giants are rethinking packaging with sustainability and ...

At SPC Impact in Seattle yesterday, Linda Roman, Director of Packaging at Kraft Heinz, said “innovation is mandatory if we are going to solve the challenges with sustainable practices.” Roman, who sat ...