Packaging Possibilities

Global foodservice manufacturer Golden State Foods shares helpful advice on how best to source packaging today.

We can’t solve the plastics packaging pollution issue by reducing or eliminating material, but we can innovate our way out of it, says a Mars executive.

In this Earth Day 2022 Packaging Possibilities podcast, Anders Bering, Vice President, Global Public Affairs of Mars Inc., explains:

• Why Mars supports this treaty;

• How we think about the plastic pollution problem in different ways in different parts of the world;

• The promise of advanced/molecular/chemical recycling, especially for flexible packaging;

• How the treaty will impact plastic packaging.

In caring for COVID-19 and other patients, Nurse Vanessa Warner relies on sterile packaging to keep critical medical products safe for use. And, for that, she’d like to thank you. But she also has an ask.

Think of it. The virtual world opens up new scenarios for customized packaging experiences, virtual unboxing, and testing new designs.

Packaging Digest noodled on this concept with Brent Lindberg, Head of Curiosity at packaging design firm Fuseneo. In our conversation, we jumped into the rabbit hole headfirst to unpack the challenges of designing for a new reality.

Frito-Lay will debut new commercially compostable packaging — made from 85% renewable plant materials — at a popular music and art festival this April.

I wanted to talk about shelf-life performance, and we did. But Absolut’s Director of Future Packaging veered into marketing and manufacturing — because they’re all connected.

How can we solve today’s manufacturing and packaging challenges, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Great Depression? Here are some surprising ideas.

The Loop reusable packaging concept, which started as an ecommerce shopping platform, continues its quest to an in-store retail model with its launch in select US stores.

A Texas company’s intricate reusable containers keep Team USA’s delicate luge sleds safe on their way to and from the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

You can boost the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of your packaging machines and packaging lines in a low-lift/high-return kind of way.