Closures/Lids Topic | Packaging Strategies

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Editor’s Note | Packaging Wake Up Call

For legacy brands, reinvention comes at a cost but it’s worth it.

January 10, 2022

For nearly a century, we have been opening English muffin packaging wrong. We, the groggy, have fought to unwrap cellophane English muffin packaging for decades. But that was only half the battle.

Aptar Food + Beverage Introduces New Inverted Closure Product

January 5, 2022

The 2” Ultra XLV can be used with a rigid bottle or paired with an inverted flexible pouch.

Amcor Launches New Way to Create Customizable Liners

November 11, 2021

The company’s IMPRESSIONS technology is intended to help build better engagement with shoppers through customizable liners.

Editor’s Note

Consumers Want Closure on Cereal Bag Issue

Kristin Joker

September 15, 2021

Yes, I know that some cereals are available in resealable pouches. But we’re talking about having cereal in resealable bags in the box.

Podcast | Cultivating Sustainable Cannabis Packaging

We talk with the Co-Founders of Sana Packaging about the life cycle of a cannabis package, consumer behavior and how the cannabis industry can implement sustainability as it continues to grow.

August 23, 2021

In this episode, we talk with Ron Basak-Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, and James Eichner, Co-Founder & CSO, of Sana Packaging — a sustainable packaging brand that designs and develops differentiated, sustainable and compliant cannabis packaging solutions for a circular economy by using 100% plant-based hemp plastic, 100% reclaimed ocean plastic and other sustainable materials.

Editor’s Forum

Misread Anger

Self-checkout machines are designed to be convenient but are they?

Kristin Joker

August 16, 2021

If you can make it through a self-checkout without hearing any of these dreaded sentences, congratulations, you have won a battle in the ongoing war of man versus machine.

The Sana Ocean Concentrate Screw-Top Lid

July 30, 2021

The cannabis industry's first concentrate lid made from 100% ocean-bound and reclaimed ocean plastic.

Brand Packaging: Lid Technology

Square Lid Tech Keeps Cannabis Fresh

Calyx Containers’ new lid was designed to benefit consumers and dispensaries alike.

Cherlene Erauda

July 13, 2021

Cannabis as a commodified industry has definitely outgrown its dime-bag days, we’ve long said goodbye to weed handed off in a plastic baggie or swaddled in saran wrap. Legalized states have mandated regulations on protective packaging to enforce child resistance (CR), accessibility for those with dexterity limitations and, most importantly, preservation of the cannabis product inside.