Trends & Issues

First production of bio-based, renewable monoethylene glycol (MEG) from sugar "has the potential to revolutionize the PET market.”

The latest news scoops include student design, translucent paper bag, Anheuser-Busch's beer refill pilot, PepsiCo's winning designs, Tupperware getting Loop-ed, and dog beer.

An expansive educational lineup for Virtual Engineering Week, November 30 – December 4, will kick off each day with a fireside chat and keynote presentation, including several from packaging thought-leaders.

New standard EVO and high-strength EVOX shrink films from Clysar are store drop-off recyclable with grocery bags and other approved polyethylene packaging materials.

Inclusive design starts with the few but expands to encompass a much wider, more accepting audience. It ultimately leads to the broadest possible bandwidth of people.

Bacardi plans to have PHA-based liquor bottles on store shelves by 2023, despite the material’s higher cost compared with conventional plastics and the reluctance of industrial composting facilities to accept the biopolymer.