beverage packaging

Food Packaging

Orb bottles will now be allowed on planes

October 7, 2019

After many sarcastic tweets from the public, the TSA reconsidered its ban on souvenir Coke bottles from Disney’s new Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge.

Industry News

Crown Beverage Packaging North America shows off new graphics design studio

New facility will serve U.S. and Canadian customers with high-speed, high quality design studio

Wayne Labs

August 19, 2019

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Crown Beverage Packaging North America’s new 14,000-sq.-ft. graphics design studio serves the entire U.S. and Canada, offering can design and consulting services and providing rapid proofs made on a digital system to preview art and produce printing plates for all U.S. and Canadian customers.

Rise of food e-commerce driving food, beverage packaging innovations

As e-grocers explore high-tech solutions such as delivery drones and cashierless stores to entice consumers, food and beverage brands are looking to packaging to enhance consumer convenience and confidence in the online grocery orders they ultimately receive.

August 5, 2019

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Analysis from Packaged Facts, New York, anticipates intense near-term growth supported in part by packaging innovations that make online grocery shopping a more attractive option for retailers and consumers alike.

Food Packaging

Targeting single-use plastics

Rose Shilling

July 8, 2019

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With concerns about single-use plastics increasing, a company known for boxed coconut water has started selling aluminum bottles of water.

Food Packaging

Water brand teams with KHS on Germany's first recycled PET bottle

Rose Shilling

January 7, 2019

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Germans can buy water in bottles made of 100 percent recycled PET for the first time, KHS Group filling and packaging says.

Starbucks launches $10M effort to find better cups

Coffee makers partners with Closed Loop Partners to develop recyclable, compostable cup solution, with plans to make it open source.

Crystal Lindell

April 1, 2018

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Starbucks wants to bring a fully recyclable and compostable cup to the market within the next three years.

Diet Coke

Diet Coke launches 4 new flavors, updated packaging

Soda is not being reformulated.

Crystal Lindell

January 12, 2018

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With an updated look, sleek new packaging, the debut of four bold, new flavors and a new campaign, The Coca-Cola Company is hoping to re-energize and modernize Diet Coke for a new generation.

Beverage Packaging

HeatGenie’s single-serve beverages self-heat

A twist of the can, and two minutes is all it takes for consumers to enjoy hot tea or soup in a single-serve container.

November 29, 2017

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Coffee, tea, or hot soup on the go? A new packaging innovation promises exactly that. The HeatGenie simply and quickly heats beverages with a twist of the lid through a solid-state thermal reaction.

Beverage packaging

New Ardagh Group finish offers cans ‘Matte & Mirror Impact’

The company’s new ink compound creates an eye-catching beverage packaging.

Crystal Lindell

September 13, 2017

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The Ardagh Group’s latest beverage can finishing, named ‘Matte & Mirror Impact,’ combines the trending combination of matte and glossy surfaces.

Coffee packaging

La Colombe Coffee, Crown launch single-use coffee can

New convenience driven package delivers precise portions of fresh, premium coffee

Crystal Lindell

August 14, 2017

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The MiniVault, a pre-portioned single-use can, delivers café quality ground coffee to consumers in a vessel that is both convenient for at-home use and extends the shelf life up to five times.