About Accutek Packaging Equipment Company, Inc. We offer filling, capping, labeling machines, conveyors, and complete packaging systems. Our products also include bottle unscramblers, rinsers, sleeve ...

A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react?

Since 2009, when The Coca-Cola Company announced the launch of the first PET bottle made partially from plants, the race has been on among beverage brands to crack the code on developing a ...

Snacking just took a turn for sustainability, thanks to The British Crisp Co.’s release of the first-ever recyclable paper chip bag. “Brits consume over eight billion packets of crisps each year, the ...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in packaging manufacturing has become a necessity. AI is revolutionizing traditional processes, driving efficiency, and creating new opportunities for ...

Article first appeared in Australia’s PKN Packaging News on Nov. 28, 2022. Mars Wrigley Australia’s move to paper-based wrappers for its chocolate bar lines marks a world-first for the company and is ...

General Mills and P&G outline how brand owners are going beyond EPR compliance by subsidizing film recovery via USFFI and CalFFlex, investing in new technology, and collaborating with converters to ...

When new sustainably-focused health and wellness beverage brand Power Hydration introduced its alkaline water product to consumers in Southern California this summer, it assumed bragging rights for a ...

Two years in the making—from concept to launch— Nestlé’s introduction in June 2020 of its Smarties chocolate candies in fully recyclable paper packaging represents a world first for a global ...

March of this year saw the rollout of 100% recyclable plastic-free packaging (on select packaging, excludes seals) for Energizer Holdings’ portfolio of Energizer household batteries. Rather than ...

For those Consumer Packaged Goods professionals who have been following the industry for the last two decades, Walmart’s recent radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging mandates may feel a lot ...

A central question among brand owners has been whether 2D barcodes will be required or voluntary. Chuck Lasley, CTO at Dillard’s, answered this clearly at GS1 US's Amplify event: “We’re going to give ...