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The world is demanding more of packaging: it needs to be sustainable, cost-effective and developed faster than ever. But poor specification data management is holding packaging teams and their companies back. By digitizing your specifications, you can unleash the power of data and analytics to inform packaging design and distribution—and move faster than ever. In this webinar, you’ll learn how leading companies are using specification management best practices to:
Brian Johnston takes a deeper dive into a number of key topics from his current book “Packaging Notes from the Design Desk.”
Questions about how to address sustainability continue to arise more frequently for brands, particularly when it comes to finding the most sustainable packaging solutions. But the answers are not often clear cut or "one size fits all," as they're impacted by localized concerns such as consumer behavior, government regulations, and retailer guidelines. Sustainability challenges are global in nature, and thereby require brands to apply global knowledge and expertise as a method of creating localized solutions.
The Recycling Partnership, the nation’s leading nonprofit solving for circularity, provides an introduction to the circular economy in the US for packaging and understand how companies, communities, and governments are critical action agents to achieve this transition. Learn about their work with the packaging value chain as they collaborate, make grants, and innovate to provide solutions for companies at all stages of their sustainability journeys. This presentation includes real-world examples of on-the-ground action bringing the Pathway to Circularity to life through material coalitions, a free strategy development tool called Plastic IQ, and discover why the role as a packaging professional is crucial to embedding the principles of a circular economy into your work and company.
The future of packaging is rapidly changing, and packaging professionals must stay ahead of the curve. This webinar will provide valuable insights into the opportunities and challenges shaping packaging over the next decade. With this knowledge, you will have the tools and information to plan for the future and make the most of the upcoming changes.
This webinar addresses four topics involved in studying the effects of time, temperature and vibration on closure torque integrity: operation and requirements of performance testing facilities, standard procedures and demonstrated best practices, test results from select plastic and glass bottle/closure assemblies and present a case study in the development of an industry standard glass 4L bottle and copolymer closure assembly.
If you're a packaging professional looking to learn more about the industry's policy efforts, this webinar is for you. You'll gain insight into the challenges and opportunities you and your company face regarding package design, sustainability goals, and initiatives. Learn more about what's happening in the U.S. with mandates for packaging producer responsibility, labeling, and recycled content. Plus, find out how you can become involved in shaping the most favorable outcomes for your company and the packaging industry.
The Flexible Packaging Association partnered with PTIS and the Priority Metrics Group on a research report that explores the future of sustainability and flexible packaging through 2030. It provides information, knowledge and insights related to flexible packaging and sustainability, the circular economy, legislative trends and impacts to the industry. This report will highlight the central findings that packaging professionals should know. What you will learn:
This presentation focuses on how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food packaging materials. The difference between indirect food additives and food contact substances will be explained, along with how the definitions overlap. Options for obtaining FDA clearance for substances used in contact with foods will be discussed. Finally, the reasons why the Food Contact Notification program is the preferred method for obtaining clearance for food contact substances will be outlined.