Jan/Feb 2025

Packaging World Jan/Feb 2025

The Packaging Workforce: Hiring, Retention, and Training in a Changing Industry

Packaging industry companies are finding challenges in finding, keeping, and training workers to handle increasingly advanced machinery.

February 7, 2025

Around 80% of surveyed packaging industry stakeholders are looking to hire packaging line operators and having trouble doing so.

Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint

According to a Packaging World survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.

February 5, 2025

Annual Outlook Report - Automation and Robotics

Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization

Driven by consumer demand for more sustainable packaging, CPGs turn to new materials such as paper and bio-based/compostable plastic, but higher costs, material complexity, and other limitations may slow adoption.

February 3, 2025

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Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?

New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?

January 31, 2025

Packaging Equipment AI Copilot Assistant

Compostable Seafood Shipper Insulation Supports Brand’s Mission

D2C business Wild Alaskan Company ships its sustainably harvested, wild seafood using bio-based foam insulation that is home and industrially compostable as well as water soluble.

January 27, 2025

Green Cell Foam cornstarch-based insulation panels keep Wild Alaskan’s shipments of sustainably harvested, wild seafood frozen for up to 72 hrs. Image courtesy of Wild Alaskan.

Palm-Sized Carton Delivers 180 Doses of Skin Care

Nwär Skin’s new Seid skin care products are encapsulated in tiny, dissolvable strips packaged in a paperboard carton. While the product reduces overconsumption, the package ensures recycling.

January 24, 2025

Seid Altered Perceptions Facial Cleanser and Seid Conscious Commitments Facial Balm products come in a dainty, palm-sized paperboard carton that’s perforated along the front and bottom panel to allow for easy access to the product strips. Image courtesy of Nwar Skin.

U.S. PET Bottle Recycling Rate Reaches 30-Year High

According to NAPCOR’s ‘2023 PET Recycling Report,’ the U.S. PET bottle recycling rate increased 4% from 2022 and is the highest rate since 1996.

January 22, 2025

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Seafood Branding is ‘a Love Letter from Alaska’

Wild Alaskan Company’s executive creative director, Cliff Borress, shares the strategy behind the D2C seafood business’s new Alaska-inspired packaging graphics.

January 20, 2025

Each fish pack features a beautiful illustration of the fish species contained within as a way to educate consumers on the differences between them. Photo courtesy of Wild Alaskan Company.

AMERIPEN's Packaging Policy Update & 2025 Outlook

In this annual Q&A, AMERIPEN Policy and Membership Director Rob Keith and the association’s principle lobbyist, Andy Hackman of Serlin Haley, provide updates on current state and federal packaging policy along with insights on what to expect in the coming

January 16, 2025

Ameripen Beauty Web

5 Bold New Administration Predictions

There could be packaging-related developments under the new administration, especially the FDA, including potential regulatory changes and updated labeling requirements.

January 14, 2025

Eric F. Greenberg

Brown is the New Green: Lamb Weston’s Recyclable Paper Fry Bag

Lamb Weston develops a paper bag for its frozen French fries that offers a grease and moisture barrier as well as durability and machinability, while still being recyclable.

January 14, 2025

The bio-based bag is said to be a proprietary blend formulated and tested to pass OCC [Old Corrugated Container] acceptance testing. Photo courtesy of Lamb Weston.

Packaging as a Brand-Builder

Personnel, although valuable, are replaceable. But brands are meant to endure.

January 14, 2025

Sterling Anthony

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