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Elaine Marshall, a Packaging Engineering Technology student at Indiana State University as the recipient of the inaugural Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network (PPWLN) Scholarship

PMMI Awards Inaugural Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network Scholarship

The excitement for the show is building for the industry to reconnect in Las Vegas next week.

The Return of PACK EXPO Las Vegas is Less Than a Week Away

Packaging and processing community ready to reconvene in Las Vegas for first time in over 18 months.

Sustainability index for packaging markets

Pharmapack Report 2021: U.S. Leads on Drug Device Innovation but Trails Europe on Sustainability

Event agenda to track trends in sustainability, patient-centered device design and biosimilars and autoinjectors

Technipaq Partners with DuPont™ Tyvek® and Freepoint Eco-Systems to Reduce and Recycle Medical Packaging Plastic Waste

unPacked with Packaging World podcast

unPACKed with Packaging World: Is Paper the New Plastic

Listen as Packaging and Processing Hall of Fame member Pat Reynolds breaks down the increased use of paper-based bottles on the latest unPACKed with Packaging World podcast.

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Exhibitors Primed and Ready for Return of PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO

The excitement for the show is building for the industry to reconnect in Las Vegas next week. Hear what these solution suppliers are doing to welcome the industry back.

Healthcare Packaging's Life Science Logistics Playbook

Healthcare Packaging's Life Science Logistics Playbook

Shipping temperature-controlled products? Get tips on preventing excursions and waste, developing a validation master plan, characterizing shipping lanes, and more.

HDA Survey Offers Some Troubling DSCSA Prep Results

With just two years left to meet the Nov. 2023 DSCSA requirements, a readiness survey shows that there is much work to be done in drug supply chain traceability. 57% of manufacturers surveyed have no successful data connections in production environments.

Future Innovators Robotic Showcase

Rockwell Automation Unites Industry, Inspires Future Leaders at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Company engages by connecting industry professionals, serving as exclusive sponsor for the 2021 Future Innovators Robotics Showcase and as Gold Sponsor for the 2021 Fundraising Golf Tournament.

The thermoformable barrier and seal layer are also heat-sealable.

Recyclable Paper Blister Wins German Packaging Award

The paper blister can be printed on both sides, and both base and lidding are recyclable. The design allows for the tablets to be pushed through the barrier layers without breaking.

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Over 230 Medical Journal Editors: Call For Emergency Action to Combat Climate Change

'Reflecting the severity of the moment, this editorial appears in health journals across the world. We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory.'

PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO

T Minus Three Weeks until PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO

What to expect at the only show in the world this year that will reunite the packaging and processing community.

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Global Economy Passes Pre-COVID GDP as Business Investments Pick Up; Risks Remain

After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1973, but there are still potential risks.

Bio-Based Alternative to EPS for Temp-Controlled Shipping

From healthcare to food applications, these shippers derived from corn and sugar beets cut petroleum sourcing, water, and greenhouse gas use in manufacturing. This Take Five video has the full story in under five minutes.

New Packaging Report Highlights Need for Anti-Counterfeiting

An international trade body comments on a new report that paves the way to ‘significant’ opportunity and growth for packaging holography technologies.

PACK EXPO Partner Program

Partners Provide Unmatched Expertise at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Associations line up to participate at and support PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO.

The FPA has conducted the annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition since 1956 to showcase the industry’s innovation and the advances that have changed packaging.

Call for Entries: 2022 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition

The deadline for entries to the Flexible Packaging Association's esteemed annual awards competition is October 22, 2021.

Noice natural gel toothpaste comes in an amber glass bottle with reusable pump dispenser. Refills use a screw-top closure.

Reusable, Recyclable Glass Toothpaste Bottle is ‘Noice’

Noice Care offers its natural toothpaste in an amber glass bottle with a reusable pump dispenser for D2C; a reusable, refillable glass bottle is available through the Loop shopping platform.

There are seven areas currently trending in the U.S. packaging machinery market.

Top Seven U.S. Packaging Machinery Trends in 2021

According to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence, there are seven areas currently trending in the U.S. packaging machinery market.

Four DSCSA Guidances Were Released this Summer: Are You Up to Date?

Read what’s new on DSCSA regarding suspect and illegitimate product, product identifiers, and enhanced drug distribution security at the package level.

Margaret Knight’s flat-bottomed bag machine patent model. Courtesy of the Smithsonian, National Museum of American History.

PACK to the Future: The Story Behind the Historical Exhibit at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Take a journey through the history of packaging, explore milestones that shaped the present, and learn more about industry trends influencing the future.

kpNext is kp’s blister packaging film that is designed to be recyclable in the RIC (Resin Identification Code) 1 stream.

Stream #1 Recyclable Pharma Blister: New Blister, Same Machines

This PET blister allows pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and consumer health companies to incorporate a recyclable package without slowing lines or purchasing new equipment.