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Photo credit: Blue Planet Studio – adobe.stock.com Pressure on supply chains and demand for hygienic packages are just a couple ways the COVID-19 coronavirus upended the lives of dedicated professionals working in packaging departments. Thank you for all you’ve done during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Packaging operations adapted to the crisis with (mostly) order, compassion, innovation, and efficiency — from refitting packaging lines to supply critical goods, to redesigning package graphics to reassure worried consumers. All along the way, Packaging Digest w...

Yesterday, Amazon sent letters to thousands of brand-owner vendors affected by a new packaging program. So if you were wondering whether to design or redesign your packaging for the ecommerce channel, this might help you decide. To help reduce packaging waste and improve efficiency of ecommerce shipping for its vendors, Amazon will require that select products being sold and fulfilled by Amazon arrive in its fulfillment centers in certified packaging under its Frustration-Free Packaging (FFP) program. This means that the packaging does not require any shipping preparation or an overbox to be ...

Photo credit: Artur – adobe.stock.com It’s probably no surprise that COVID-19 dominated many of our best-read articles related to pharmaceutical and medical packaging in 2020. But sustainability and a rare approval of a new pharmaceutical packaging test method fills out our baker’s dozen. Hygienic easy-open single-use packaging, a curb-side recyclable pharmaceutical shipper, a report card on senior usefulness (and other failures), and supply chain challenges caught your attention this year. Based on page views throughout 2020, Packaging Digest presents its end...

  Photo credit: Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com Looking for a little healthy indulgence when hunger strikes? You’re not the only one. Americans snack before, after, and during mealtimes. After all, today’s packages make it easy to do so. Here are a dozen examples of brands using packs and graphics to tempt and gratify.   For its organic dairy products, Maple Hill opted to use packaging that addresses sustainability. The recyclable container for its new line of single-serve shelf-stable (aseptic) milks is made mostly with paperboard from responsibly managed pulp trees. Successful brands ...

2-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at Georgia-Pacific Box Plant 50 firefighters worked from Sunday night into Monday morning to put out the fire at the San Leandro, CA, plant. Crews worked for several hours on Sunday night to douse a two-alarm fire that broke out at the Georgia-Pacific box production plant in San Leandro, CA, local news organizations reported. Officials issued a second alarm for the fire at 11:14 p.m. and a total of 50 firefighters responded to the Alvarado Street location, coverage by CBS News affiliate KPIX said. The fire was extinguished by 5 a.m. Monday, according to KRON. Geo...