The impact of COVID, ecommerce and environmental aspirations have changed how consumer packaging should address new consumer needs — without compromising the importance of the basics in achieving breakthrough and driving purchase.
The current approach to dealing with plastic waste simply isn’t working. New technology and new methodologies must be developed to provide a much-needed boost to our current recycling activity.
These six topics are drastically affecting the flexible packaging landscape.
March 7, 2022
As we covered in our annual Executive Forecast for 2022, the pandemic may not be at the forefront of everyone’s minds directly, but its ripple effects are still spreading outward. Those ripples are impacting the current state of the industry.
The company’s investment will expand manufacturing capabilities in its Specialty Quality Packaging (SQP) facility in New York, where Kari-Out’s popular Food Trays, Eco Box and Eco Earth paper food containers are produced.
UK-based supermarket chain, Iceland, announces a new paper-meets-plastic pillow pouch packaging for its line of frozen chicken breast dippers. Plus, more industry news on paper-based flexible packaging.
Paper-meets-plastic packaging has been making inroads in Europe for the past two years as regulatory drivers and company initiatives have pushed food producers to add more recyclable content to their packaging.