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Digital Transformation
Top 15 of 2025, #8: AI is Transforming Packaging Manufacturing
The #8 most clicked article of 2025: AI is driving advancements in packaging efficiency with applications in areas like predictive demand forecasting, smart packaging design, and AI-powered robotics for smart factories.
The Kind Dark Chocolate Nuts & sea salt bars will be sold in singles in the paper wrapper at Whole Foods, so a consumer will not purchase a carton.
Recycling
Top 15 of 2025, #9: Mars' Kind is Next to Launch Recyclable Paper Wrapper
Paper continues to dominate today’s packaging mix, while planned changes over the next 12 months show a cautious approach: about half of respondents expect no changes, but among those adjusting materials, paper and bio-based/compostable options lead anticipated additions, alongside modest shifts across plastics, metal, and glass.
Recycling
Top 15 of 2025, #10: Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization
Tide’s polypropylene caps undergo LaserSharp marking on two sides. On the left, we see an inverted bottle where Tide’s blue detergent is completely filling the dosing cap. Fill-level guidelines are visible both when detergent is in the cap as pictured, and when the cap is empty. On the upper right, we see the OXI logo on the other side of the cap. This branding/logo was also marked on the cap in the LaserSharp process.
Coding & Marking
Top 15 of 2025, #11: P&G’s Tide Laser Marks Cap for Better Dosing Clarity, Recyclability
Semi-automatic Liquid Drum Filler Increases Operator Efficiency
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Side-entry Liquid Mixer Improves Solids Suspension in Large Tanks
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Assuming the format is the same as or very similar to previous commercial rollouts, it's functionally bag-in-box. In this case, the “box” portion begins as a die-cut and geometrically creased blank of printed paperboard.
Recycling
Top 15 of 2025, #12: Target Launches Paper Bottle in 1200 Stores with Own-Brand Wine
Bio-based
SayHay, My Sweet Salad, and Incredible Eats Design Bio-based Packaging
Bio-based
Top 15 of 2025, #15: Used Cooking Oil Powers Lamb Weston’s Potato Bag
Recycling
Ryp Labs, SPG, and Waitrose & Partners Design Packaging with Added Functionality
Bio-based
Twenty Years of Bioplastics: EUBP Reflects, Regroups, and Looks Ahead
Four of the five new packaging cells are dedicated to the 8.5-oz carton while one cell can do either 40-oz or 8.5-oz cartons.
Bagging & Pouching
Jiffy Mix Modernizes Packaging With Flexible, Compact Cells
Bagging & Pouching
Paper Bag for Scotts MiracleGro
Bagging & Pouching
Wada Farms, Walmart Roll Out 30% PCR Potato Bag
Flexibles
P&G, General Mills Step Up to Make Flexible Film Recycling Economically Viable
Flexibles
EPR at the Intersection Between Brands and Flexible Packaging Converters
Changeover on the cartoner from 4-count to 12-count takes about 40 minutes.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Top 15 of 2025, #13: New Canning, In-house Shrink Sleeve Labeling, Distinguish Craft Brewer
Containers & Closures
McCormick's Old Bay Leads Charge of Spices Back to Tin
Filling, Capping & Closing
Coke Bottler Cuts Co-Packing, Adds Aseptic Line for Fuze Tea, Powerade
Filling, Capping & Closing
Troubleshooting Continuous-Thread Closures
Filling, Capping & Closing
Turnkey Top Filling and Lidding
Shrink sleeving at Tap Magic
Labeling
Shrink Sleeve Labeling Brings Savings and More
Coding & Marking
P&G’s Tide Laser Marks Cap for Better Dosing Clarity, Recyclability
Labeling
Let Science Inform New Diet Guidance
Labeling
Fernway Cannabis Scales Automated Labeling Across State Lines
Coding & Marking
Printed 2D Barcodes Become Digital Gateways for Supply Chain, Consumers
Spanish juice producer García Carrión is using Tetra Pak’s paper-based barrier technology for aseptic cartons for its flagship brand, Don Simón.
Cartoning
Spanish Juice Brand Debuts Aseptic Pack with Paper Barrier
Case/Tray Packing
New Line Runs Party Drinks and Pickle Potions
Cartoning
Mondelēz Pilots 300,000 Cadbury Heroes Paper Tubs in Tesco
Robotics
Griffith Foods’ Model in Colombia: Robots with a Human Touch
Cartoning
Born Simple Turns to Retortable Cartons for Shelf-Stable “Better Bowls”
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Workforce
Hands-On, Not Handbooks: CPGs Rethink Operator Training Strategies
Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Tropicana Weathers Blowback from Package Redesign
Contract Packaging
How CVS Store Brands Handles Refreshing a 5,000-item Private Label Portfolio
Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #4: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots
Package Design
PatrĂłn Tequila Introduces First New Bottle Design in Over Three Decades
Products
EcoSonic VpCI-125 HP Permanent ESD Stretch Film
Stretch Film
Cortec’s EcoSonic VpCI-125 HP Permanent ESD Stretch Film combines permanent static dissipation and vapor-phase corrosion protection to safeguard sensitive electronics and metal components during storage and transport.
OCC Recycling Solution
Easy-Access Reject Device for Gravity Inspection
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List: Digitalization Companies From PACK EXPO
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Sustainable Packaging
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Robotics
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Trends
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