Best in New Food and Beverage Packaging January 2022

Food and beverage brands constantly launch new products and new packages, many of which are posted to social media — if you can find them. Packaging Digest highlights the best of them on a regular basis, with the most recent “find” at the beginning. Here are relevant posts from January 2022. CLICK HERE to see the latest additions. 

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Czech brewer ends production using plastic beer bottles.

Guidance to make snack packaging sustainable.

Champagne bottles remade into candles.

SABIC and Gualapack collaboration with Ella’s Kitchen UK yields baby food cap made with advanced recycled plastics.

SIG Combibloc barrier aluminum-free aseptic carton claimed as a world’s first.

Stunning Beam Suntory whisky bottle sold for a stunning amount, all for a good cause.

PepsiCo Europe’s drive to improved sustainable packaging include flex-pack circularity.

Best of #BeerCanAppreciationDay.

Patrón offers 150 numbered direct-to-consumer (DTC) NFT bottles of Chairman Reserve Tequila.

Flavored Cokes getting a new look

Beer market expanding at a 2.45% CAGR.

19 Crimes Wine releases Martha Stewart California Chardonnay.

A “hairy” clever pasta design.

Kroger identifies 10 food trends.

Zero-waste and refill stores are thriving.

Lay’s Golden Grounds chips grown in stadium soil packaged in bags with team colors and logos.

Europe’s beverage bottle vision for sustainability.

Retort packaging market growing at a 5.2% CAGR during forecast period 2021–2031 to reach $28.4 Bn.

Darnley’s introduces a family of recyclable gin pouches.

Oreos Cakesters’ return promotion marked by "rewind" in VHS packaging.

International Delights Willy Wonka edition…with Golden Tickets.

CA foodservice packaging law.

Plastic-free paper bottle.

Braille on food packaging is making a difference.

Pectin films with natural preservatives as biopolymer food packaging.

Returnable food containers with QR codes carry deposit that’s refunded through an app.

TapoutT's beverage packaging design draws award recognition.

Best practices to improve rPET purity.

BillerudKorsnas earns Sustainability Initiative Climate Prize from TetraPak.

Cellulose coating replaces plastics films for fruit and vegetables.