November 2023
PPA Announces Winners of the Student Design Challenge
The Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) announced the winners of the 2023 Student Design Challenge who were honored October 24 during the Paperboard Packaging Council’s 2023 Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, California. Teams were asked to design new paperboard packaging and packaging components for…
ICG Welcomes OlymPak Printing& Packaging As New Member
The Independent Carton Group (ICG) announced it voted OlymPak Printing and Packaging of Mora, Minnesota, into the association during their general meeting September 8-10 at Diamond Packaging in Rochester, New York. ICG, based in Newton, Connecticut, is an association of 20 independently owned and operated folding carton manufacturers. OlymPak Printing and…
Food Plant Investments October 2023
Big names like Keurig Dr Pepper, Walmart, Tyson, and Kellanova (formerly Kellogg’s) led the plant investment charge this past month. …
What are Driving Manufacturing and Sustainability Improvements?
Artificial intelligence and gender diversity are among the many movements helping transform packaging and manufacturing today. …
Best in New Food and Beverage Packaging October 2023
October's food and beverage highlights included wrapper-less snack bars, Coca-Cola's rPET move, Pepsi's packaging diversity, recycling Halloween candy wrappers, Walker's paper multipacks, and beer's edible multipack. …