DHL ramps up automation, sustainability efforts in changing packaging marketplace

Alicemarie Geoffrion, president of packaging at DHL Supply Chain, North America, discusses assisting customers with packaging customization and reusables. Plus, she gives an outlook for the holiday shipping season.

By Katie Pyzyk • Nov. 20, 2024

Trump’s tariffs: How manufacturers can prepare

Front-loading commodity imports could be a temporary solution, but diversified sourcing will be critical for the long term, experts say.

By Kate Magill • Nov. 14, 2024

The dual case for reusable transport packaging

Adopting reusables across the supply chain presents not just sustainability benefits, but also cost savings, according to speakers at Pack Expo International.

By Katie Pyzyk • Nov. 14, 2024

Packaging manufacturers share insights from Q3

Recent earnings calls revealed some notable changes at packaging manufacturers. Follow the latest from Pactiv Evergreen, Clearwater Paper, Sonoco, Amcor, International Paper, Smurfit Westrock and more.

By Packaging Dive Staff • Updated Nov. 12, 2024

International Paper cuts 674 jobs amid strategic review of global cellulose fibers

The news of a South Carolina pulp mill closure brings IP’s announced layoffs this month to more than 1,500. A potential sale of the broader GCF business is now under consideration.

By Maria Rachal • Oct. 31, 2024

Is the fiber packaging M&A surge done? Probably not.

M&A activity is expected to influence companies’ commercial approaches for the next five to 10 years, according to conference speakers from Wells Fargo, Bloomberg and Hudson Windsor.

By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 28, 2024

Biden-Harris administration opens tariff exclusion process for some manufacturers

The deadline to submit exclusion requests to the USTR is March 31, 2025.

By Kate Magill • Oct. 24, 2024

O-I Glass shuttering Ohio innovation center, Illinois plant: reports

The company has teased multiple closures since Gordon Hardie took over as CEO but previously had shared few specifics on locations.

By Maria Rachal • Oct. 24, 2024

Election 2024: The outlook for packaging and manufacturing policy

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump differ on environmental regulations, manufacturing, energy and ESG policies. What could a Trump or Harris presidency mean for the packaging industry?

By Maria Rachal , Katie Pyzyk , Cole Rosengren • Oct. 23, 2024

Sprouts expands reusable packaging partnership with IFCO

The specialty grocer has piloted reusable containers for fresh produce items packed in high-humidity environments as a way to replace single-use corrugated and wax-corrugated boxes.

By Peyton Bigora • Oct. 21, 2024

Brands make packaging design changes for e-commerce compatibility

Pandemic-related and sustainability trends, along with Amazon's requirements, are among the factors prompting Clorox, Mars Wrigley and Nestlé to tweak product packaging designs they use for e-commerce.

By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 10, 2024

Packaging trade shows to watch in 2025

Mark your calendar: These U.S. conferences and events will cover timely trends in sustainable packaging design, recycling technologies, regional market trends, substrate evolutions, automation and more.

By Packaging Dive Staff • Oct. 1, 2024

What’s next for product certification amid concerns about PFAS and toxics in plastic

Lagging regulation and a potential “toxic treadmill” with recycled content are viewed as just some of today’s pressing challenges. Clean Production Action Executive Director Mark Rossi reflects on two decades of change in the field.

By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 30, 2024

Insights from the 2024 Packaging Recycling Summit

AI applications, recycled plastic supply and demand, and how brands are thinking about extended producer responsibility were among the topics Packaging Dive covered from this year’s event in California.

By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 27, 2024

New molded fiber company will use industrial hemp as main feedstock

Renw seeks to minimize reliance on forestry assets in packaging by expanding the growth of industrial hemp, which will be used as a feedstock at the company’s molded fiber production facilities.

By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 25, 2024

Thermoform reclamation rises along with rPET demand

As one speaker at the Packaging Recycling Summit called thermoforms an “untapped source” for reclaimed PET, Rumpke Waste & Recycling plans to begin accepting the containers in curbside recycling.

By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 24, 2024

MRF and mill advances expected to fuel North American recovered fiber demand, Fastmarkets says

Analysts highlighted tight OCC and mixed paper supply, as well as ongoing demand from mills willing to pay for cleaner recovered paper material from higher-tech MRFs, during a recent webinar.

By Megan Quinn • Sept. 13, 2024

As Amazon and others nix air pillows, packaging manufacturers diversify to cushion the blow

Packaging companies are having to adapt to keep up as e-commerce expands and protective packaging trends shift. Retailers are trying new void fill materials, rightsizing packages and more.

By Shefali Kapadia • Sept. 10, 2024

O-I Glass, spirits industry partner for Kentucky’s first dedicated glass recycling program

O-I Glass will purchase cullet from the new program run by workforce development nonprofit Workwell Industries. The glass comes from distilleries in the region that also invested in the project.

By Megan Quinn • Sept. 9, 2024

5 stats on plastics recycling and ‘circularity’ investments

In new reports this summer, various groups shared updated data on where plastics transformation investments are being allocated, how recycling and recycled content use are evolving, and more.

By Maria Rachal • Aug. 21, 2024

ReMA’s online tool aims to take the mystery out of which fiber packaging can be recycled

Georgia-Pacific is one of several packaging companies that report using the tool to determine how easily their products flow through the U.S. recycling system and how to better design for recycling.

By Katie Pyzyk • Aug. 14, 2024

Packaging companies delve into Q2 results

Catch up on insights from executives at SEE, Berry Global, Pactiv Evergreen, Sonoco and more.

By Packaging Dive Staff • Updated Aug. 13, 2024

International Paper, Suzano, Stora Enso join call to reverse biodiversity loss ahead of COP16

A coalition of more than 130 businesses across industries, including CPGs Unilever and Nestlé, are pressing world leaders to take action on an issue often overlooked by corporate sustainability plans.

By Sarah Zimmerman • July 19, 2024

Novolex, USW celebrate duties against paper bag importers

The U.S. Department of Commerce's anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders apply to China, India and others. This follows the International Trade Commission’s finding that U.S. producers were being "materially injured."

By Maria Rachal • July 19, 2024

Smurfit Westrock and others set to raise fiber prices in August

Upcoming increases on multiple fiber grades, set to take effect in August, are the latest development in an ongoing push-pull between converters and the Fastmarkets RISI index.

By Cole Rosengren • July 18, 2024