COVID-19 spurred rapid technology adoption to cope with workforce, operational, and supply chain upsets. The benefits of new technologies — from wearable sensors to blockchain and IoT — are so compelling that companies are keeping them.

The project will help the company to meet current and future demand for disinfecting wipe products.

BDO study shows manufacturers increased technology during the pandemic and looked to nearby suppliers to stabilize supply chains.

Manufacturing product shifts, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and new consumer buying habits altered packaging machinery tactics over the past year in at least four ways.

As spring blooms around the country, the packaging community responds to news about COVID-19 vaccine production, plastic waste, plant expansion for a cosmetics company, a robotics boost, and a soothing package design.

Despite significant challenges caused by COVID-19 disruptions, the pharmaceutical track-and-trace sector has made strides in three areas to help secure the global supply chain now and well into the future.

My kingdom for a plastic bottle! How the pandemic disrupted the perception and sourcing of plastic packaging, and how the supply chain has adapted.

While consumers' appetite for chocolate, candy, gum, and mints remains steady, packaging preferences shifted.

Demand for the COVID-19 vaccines severely exceeds current supply. So, in a move similar to the unprecedented collaboration between Sanofi and Pfizer, now Merck has stepped up to help get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the market quicker.

The pandemic revealed gaps in medical device supply chains. Now is the time to modernize.