2024 June

Packaging Strategies

The June 2024 issue of Packaging Strategies features a cover story secondary packaging as a key focus for the dairy market, new caps and closures innovations, new packages, and much more!

Dairy Packaging

Secondary Packaging Remains Key Focus for Dairy Market

Examples of secondary packaging in the dairy sector include folding cartons, corrugated boxes and plastic crates.

Bobby Douglas

June 11, 2024

Packaging is a critical concern for manufacturers and brands aiming to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and safety. The dairy sector faces unique challenges in both primary and secondary packaging, particularly in maintaining product freshness.

Multicolored plastic bottle caps isolated on white background

Caps, Closures, Lids

No Caps On Innovation

From child-resistant pharmaceutical vials that can be opened with one hand to wine capsules incorporating an unprecedented amount of recycled tin, there are many new things under the sun when it comes to caps and closures.

Brad Addington

June 17, 2024

Packaging Strategies has extensively covered recent innovations in caps and closures, each distinctly unique in materials, applications, and specific benefits.

Automation

End-of-line Solutions Take Center Stage

Time and again in the course of our reporting on automation and robotics, end-of-line challenges such as palletizing and case forming come to the fore.

Brad Addington

June 10, 2024

Learn more about these exciting new developments in automation and robotics.

Sweety Ice Cream Unveils New Look to Celebrate its Asian Heritage

May 7, 2024

Sweety’s treats use only natural ingredients, extracts, and farm-fresh milk from local California cows.

The cover of the Industrial Physics report, “Innovation in Food and Beverage Packaging: Unwrapping the Internal Environment.”

Editor's Note | Brad Addington

Speedbumps to Sustainability

It’s healthy to acknowledge shortcomings and areas that need to be addressed.

Brad Addington

June 5, 2024

Packaging Strategies features eco-friendly packaging efforts and launched the Sustainability Insider enewsletter. Two reports in May highlighted challenges in adopting sustainable packaging.