When a food or beverage brand outsources packaging to a co-packer, it is also outsourcing its food-safety risk and its retail-audit readiness. If the co-packer
A corrugated box gets most of its stacking strength from one thing: the direction its fibers and flutes run. Paper is far stronger along the
Watch the same person hand-pack fragile components at 8 a.m. and again at 4 p.m. and you will see two different jobs. The morning crate
ISPM 15 is an international regulation that requires solid wood packaging, including pallets, crates, and dunnage, to be heat-treated or fumigated and stamped with an
A transformer bushing leaves your dock in good shape. Three weeks later it reaches a customer in another country, they open the crate, and the
The US contract packaging market is in the middle of a structural expansion, not a post-pandemic spike. Independent forecasts from Mordor Intelligence and Precedence Research
The Email That Used to Be Enough Isn’t Enough Anymore Five years ago, the relationship between a CPG brand and its co-packer looked like this:
The Recycling Symbol Isn’t a Compliance Strategy For years, food and beverage brands have treated sustainability claims on packaging as a marketing exercise. Print the
Your Packaging Line Is Probably the Bottleneck. The Hidden Cost of Your Labor Crisis Ask a food and beverage COO what keeps them up at
On May 25, 2026, Maine will enforce a ban on PFAS in nine categories of plant-fiber food contact packaging. If your paperboard trays, molded pulp
Ask a VP of Operations how many packaging vendors their company manages and the answer is usually vague. “Seven, maybe eight. Plus a couple we
If you sell through Amazon and you have not updated your packaging specs in the last 12 months, you are probably losing money right now.
The barcode as you know it is about to change. By December 31, 2027, every major retailer in North America is expected to scan a
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies are under more pressure than ever to move faster. In 2025, major retailers like Walmart and Target ratcheted up On-Time
If 2025 was a year of consolidation, 2026 is the year of velocity. The US packaging market is shifting fundamentally—moving away from simple volume growth
As of February 2026, the first wave of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is officially live. The checks have cleared for producer dues in Colorado, data
Under the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws active in 2026, not all packaging is created equal. While the base fees cover the cost of
We are one month into 2026, and the landscape of packaging compliance has officially shifted from “planning” to “payment.” For Food & Beverage leaders, Extended
