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Exclusive Interview: Palmolive Ultra Moves to 100% rPET Bottle Speaking with Packaging World in advance of the launch, Greg Corra, Global Packaging Innovations & Sustainability, Colgate-Palmolive, discusses the development of the new 100% recycled-content, recyclable bottle. Mar 17th, 2021 On March 18, Colgate-Palmolive will be announcing the relaunch of its iconic dish liquid brand, Palmolive Ultra, with new, 100% biodegradable cleaning ingredients coupled with a bottle made from 100% re...

PepsiCo, which owns the Quaker Oats Company, announced the forthcoming rebranding of the Aunt Jemima brand in 2020.

Two Better-for-You Brands Get Free Closures for a Year Sidnee’s Homemade Lemonade and Simply Soupreme are the lucky start-ups awarded with free bottle closures and insights into their businesses in this second annual competition. Feb 12th, 2021 Health and wellness continue to lead entrepreneurial innovation in new food and beverage products, so it’s no surprise that the products from the two winners of Silgan Closures’ second annual Free Closures for a Year (FCFY) contest fall into ...

th Annual Report? Natha Dempsey: Like everything in 2020, COVID was the dominating theme. This has continued into 2021. We’ve seen an enhanced focus on keeping food and beverages safe and sanitary, still coupled with the modern-day necessities of convenience and mobility. Do you think consumers trust single-use foodservice packaging more now, during COVID-19, than in the past (versus other packaging, such as reusable formats)? I don’t think consumers “trust” packaging more, but the...

Orgain Grows with New Plant-Based Nutrition Powder Orgains packaging is guided by sustainability and reducing environmental impact. With the recent introduction of Superfoods + Immunity Up! ™ to its expansive line of nutrition products, the brand has accelerated its positive growth over the last decade. Jan 22nd, 2021 Packaging World first visited with Orgain back in 2010, when the company was still relatively new. Founded by Dr. Andrew Abraham with a home blender and a desire to find a...

Packaging World: You’ve gone from producing prototypes to now producing both prototypes and modest commercial runs. How has that gone? Any surprises? Monty Patterson: Overall, it’s gone well. The pandemic set us back a bit, especially when some customers furloughed or reassigned employees who were our main contacts. Other customers found themselves so focused on just trying to maintain the status quo that they more or less postponed exploring new technologies for printing and finishing the...

Consumer product packaging has long been scrutinized for structural and aesthetic performance. Now, though, a more important characteristic is at the fore – intelligence. Packaging can be smarter and ‘digitally connected’ when combined with distributed computer systems and the web. This change will revolutionize productivity and quality while delivering new capability in a variety of product packaging applications. This capability has led to the fourth Industrial Revolution for manufactur...