Lightweight, compact, and heat-resistant retort pouches are ideal for preserving food products like baby food, ready-to-eat meals, and pet food through retort sterilization, ensuring longer shelf lives. However, there are limited recyclable options for retort pouches in the market.

Check out how new advancements are making retort equipment more efficient and packaging more eco-friendly. But let's first take a step back and take a wider look at the retort packaging scene.

The two companies will leverage combined fiber and film-based materials science expertise to create environmentally friendly flexible packaging products.

The new, patented technology enables simultaneous processing of diverse container types, including cans, jars and pouches, in the same equipment.

DisSolves has created patented solutions for biodegradable and edible films for packaging applications, including encapsulants, nutraceuticals, and pods of different types.

It’s in the best interest of all packaging companies to begin assessing and verifying their own data systems now to ensure they are prepared when EPR reporting requirements take effect.

The E-Commerce retailer streamlines delivery and returns while reducing carbon emissions with new logistics partners in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany.

David Randall of Sun Chemical explains how innovations are transforming inks for two-piece cans and resulting in an industry that is more efficient and eco-friendly.

Logistics and stockroom requirements are simpler because one material (kraft paper) now meets all packaging requirements, replacing the previous two types of pre-made airbags.

Packaging Strategies recently sat down with HP’s Mariona Company to discuss the role of 3D printing in sustainable packaging. Company, who is Global Head of Sustainable Packaging and Global Head of Marketing, HP 3D Printing and Personalization, talked about 3D printing in the context of the molded fiber industry.