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The BoxMaker, a Pacific Northwest leader in digital print production for corrugated packaging, held the inaugural Packaging Experience Summit on January 16, 2018. Major brands from Washington, Oregon and beyond were in attendance to learn from industry experts how to leverage the potential of digital print.

Videojet Technologies has introduced the Videojet 2351 and 2361 high-resolution large character inkjet printers for producers with on-demand case coding operations. The 2351 and 2361 not only print high quality, durable bar codes, text and images on white and brown corrugated boxes, but also offer a new standard in simplicity of maintenance, reliability and ease-of-use. 

Tom Wetsch, chief innovation officer at Pregis LLC, has been invited to join the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging Industry Advisory Board. The objective is to share knowledge with the university to help educators prepare students for their transition to the corporate world.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation announced that the list of leading brands, retailers and packaging companies working toward using 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025 or earlier has grown to 11.

Tamper-evident packaging (TEP) provides many benefits to businesses in almost every industry. The most evident benefit TEP provides is security. If you are in the pharmaceutical industry, tamper-evident packaging as well as tamper-resistant packaging (TRP) are in almost every case a requirement. 

Rigid plastic is seeing innovations that challenge its rivals. Add to that the increasing use of bioplastics, reusable plastics and improved barrier properties, and rigid plastic containers definitely have a solid role in packaging.

Numerous processors of drinkable yogurts, other ready-to-drink (RTD) dairy beverages and RTD nondairy beverages rely on blow-molded bottles for their products. In many cases, these bottles are produced elsewhere and delivered to the processing facilities.

The year 2017 saw a number of developments in products and changes in consumer attitudes that prompted the design of inventive packaging designed to meet emerging needs.