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Change is coming from the top with some of the world’s largest manufacturers making initiatives and encouraging their customers and other businesses alike to be more mindful with their choices. If you’re looking for some sustainability inspiration, find out more about the packaging operations of these four companies that have achieved or are working towards establishing operations that send zero waste to the landfill...

Guest post by Meleesa Johnson, director at Marathon County Solid Waste. Waste recovery and recycling professionals rarely have any influence over the beginning of the life of a product. You see, we are the forgotten people when it comes to the beginnings of a product and its packaging...

Effective packaging needs to protect the product while being cost effective. A simple statement, but often a complex and confusing process for many companies. Having full visibility of the distribution environment by tracing your product’s journey from production to consumption is crucial during packaging design...

Due to a shift in consumer shopping behaviors and heightened expectations from buyers, the ability to effectively package and deliver a product safely is crucial. A product’s packaging is just as much of a representation of a company as the product itself. This is why we have created the Packlytics Packaging Test Lab...

South Korea is home to many top technology companies, including Samsung, LG, and Hyundai, so it makes sense that it’s not just the athletes impressing Olympic visitors this year. From cleaner bots to robotic fish, various types of technology are enhancing the experience of those attending the games...

Robotics are growing more popular in a wide variety of industries from automotive to healthcare. Especially in manufacturing, automation is helping to achieve ever higher levels of precision, productivity and safety. This shift toward robotics will only accelerate, with global spending in the industrial sector said to reach over $24 billion by 2025...

The U.S. economic outlook is healthy, but as we move into the new year, employers nationwide are faced with the same dilemma: too many open jobs, not enough workers. An industry that is especially hurting is the manufacturing industry, which is expected to see a huge shortage of 2 million workers by 2020...

Operation Packaging Care was a great success! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our donation drive! We boxed up 190 pounds of donated items to send to the deployed troops of the 147th Air Wing.

The rise of e-commerce has completely changed the way we shop. It has also restructured our economy and distribution channels, while creating new challenges and opportunities for retailers to address. With the type of growth Amazon and the e-commerce industry are experiencing, you have to wonder that from a sustainability perspective, are we heading in the wrong direction?

Reducing costs and speeding up end of line assembly are goals for most manufacturers. Improving your packaging and your packaging systems takes the expertise of qualified engineers to develop the products that will work best for your project...

Some people have expressed concern over the future of automation and worry that technology will destroy jobs faster than it can help create them. On the other side of the spectrum, many economists strongly believe progressive technology is not malicious, in fact it will benefit workers and industries...

Automation is becoming a highly sought after way to increase productivity and reduce costs. It's especially useful (and welcome) to replace redundant, tedious end of line operations. Even with all of the recent advances and information available, investing in automation solutions can still be an extremely intimidating process...