North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines reached $2.874 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.2 percent over 2017 and a new record for the market.
Nestlé’s meatless Incredible Burger is now available in supermarkets in Europe under the Garden Gourmet brand, and near the end of the year, a U.S. version, called the Awesome Burger, will be available where Sweet Earth brand products are sold.
Target is launching household brand Everspring for items like laundry detergent, dish soap and paper towels. It’s the company's biggest push to offer sustainable products under one of its private labels.
Graduates of the 2020 high school class in Atlanta, Georgia, are going to be wearing their graduation garb made of recycled plastic bottles. Coca-Cola began collecting plastic bottles at its headquarters as part of Earth Day activities. The goal is to gather 7,000 bottles, enough to make graduation outfits for 200 graduates.
The new resource, offered by Can Manufacturers Institute and National Association of Convenience Stores, offers tips for improving current practices, how to communicate the program goals to staff and customers, and a checklist to help retailers reduce contamination in their recycling bins.
The World Packaging Organization (WPO) has launched an opportunity to students around the world to participate in a competition to redesign the trophy of the prestigious global packaging award, the WorldStar.
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) names Nestlé Waters North America as its 2019 Design for Recycling® (DFR) Award winner, in recognition of its innovative use of recycled plastic and its product design centered on recycling.
Applications for the 8th annual Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) Excellence in Reusable Packaging award are now being accepted. The award recognizes primary (end-user) companies and organizations that have developed and implemented measurable and innovative reusable transport packaging solutions in their supply chain.
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, owner and producer of the PACK EXPO portfolio of trade shows, as promoted Laura Thompson to vice president, Trade Shows. Thompson previously served as senior director, Expositions.
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