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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If your products ship into more than one state, packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) rules have probably already landed on your desk, usually as a confusing email from a producer responsibility organization asking you to register and report tonnage you’ve never had to track before.
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If you’re finalizing artwork for a cream, lotion, or makeup product, you’ve probably run into the little open-jar icon with a number and an “M” next to it — the Period-After-Opening (PAO) symbol. Getting this right matters: in the EU, it’s a legal labeling requirement
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
Electronics packaging has a harder job than most: it has to survive drops, block static discharge, and still look premium on a shelf or in an unboxing video — all while a growing share of buyers and regulators expect it to be recyclable or plastic-free.
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Packaura
/ September 24, 2026
If your packaged product travels by truck, rail or air, it will be shaken, bounced and jostled the whole way. ASTM D999 is one of the standard ways to reproduce that punishment in a lab, so you can find weak spots before customers, retailers or
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Packaura
/ September 23, 2026
If you’re bringing a new packaging material, coating, or food-contact product to market, migration testing is one of the line items that’s hardest to budget for — labs rarely post pricing, and the final number depends on a handful of variables most first-time filers don’t
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Packaura
/ September 22, 2026
If you make or source food packaging, you’ve probably run into the acronym GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe — and wondered whether the resin, adhesive, coating, or additive in your material actually qualifies. It’s a fair question: GRAS status isn’t a single certificate you
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Packaura
/ September 22, 2026
Here’s this week’s Packaura roundup — 9 items across Packaging Industry, Materials & Recycling. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Packaging Industry Amcor expands refillable and refill packaging portfolio Amcor has expanded its portfolio of refillable and refill packaging in different materials
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Packaura
/ September 22, 2026
Good bakery packaging has to do two jobs at once: keep a croissant, cookie, or loaf tasting fresh on the way from oven to customer, and make the product look good enough to grab attention on a shelf or in a photo. Get either one
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Packaura
/ September 20, 2026
This week’s packaging industry news was dominated by London, as thousands of brand owners and converters descended on ExCeL for London Packaging Week while, back in the US, NAPCOR dropped a decarbonization roadmap for PET and Dow and Amcor announced a low-carbon materials partnership. Add
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Packaura
/ September 19, 2026
If your company sells products in a state with an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging, one of the first hard parts isn’t understanding the regulation, it’s producing accurate weight and material data for everything you ship. Regulators and the producer responsibility organizations (PROs)
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Packaura
/ September 17, 2026
Pull up almost any silicone baking mat or muffin mold online and you’ll see the words “FDA approved” somewhere in the listing. It sounds like a stamp of government approval, but the FDA doesn’t test, inspect, or approve individual kitchenware products before they hit the
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
Here’s this week’s Packaura roundup — 9 items across Packaging Industry, Materials & Recycling. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Packaging Industry London Packaging Week | Packaging leaders to discuss DRS readiness Exchange for Change, British Soft Drinks Association, Food and Drink
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
If you sell, distribute, or manufacture checkout bags across state lines, “just make it thicker” is not a compliance strategy. States that ban thin single-use plastic bags define “reusable” in wildly different ways — some by a specific mil count, some by banning plastic film
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
Plain, uncoated cardboard is actually FDA-compliant for direct contact with dry foods, as long as the fiber and any additives meet federal requirements — a coating isn’t automatically required just to call cardboard “food-safe.” Where a coating or barrier treatment becomes necessary is grease, oil,
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Packaura
/ September 15, 2026
Shoppers decide whether a supplement looks legitimate in the few seconds it takes to glance at the bottle. Before anyone reads a single ingredient, they’re reacting to whether the label looks organized, honest, and professionally made — or cluttered, exaggerated, and cheap. This guide covers
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Packaura
/ September 14, 2026
If you’ve ever stood in the kitchen wondering whether that roll of freezer paper is actually safe to put against raw meat, you’re not alone. It looks like plain paper on one side and slightly shiny on the other, and that alone raises questions about
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Packaura
/ September 14, 2026
Picking how to package a bar of soap sounds simple until you’re standing in front of a pallet of cured bars trying to decide whether to box them, wrap them, band them, or bag them. Each structural option trades off differently on cost, shelf appeal,
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Packaura
/ September 14, 2026
If you’ve ever had a container arrive with crushed cartons, mislabeled boxes, or product that doesn’t match the sample you approved, you already know why brands pay someone else to check the goods before they ship. A third-party packaging inspection puts an independent inspector in
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Packaura
/ September 13, 2026
This week’s packaging industry news cycle was dominated by rising input costs, a federal push for uniform recyclability claims, and a wave of material innovation aimed at cutting waste out of the supply chain. From a fresh round of containerboard price hikes to a mill
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Packaura
/ September 12, 2026
If you ship anything that has to stay cold (or frozen, or within a tight temperature band) for more than a few hours, the insulation inside the box matters as much as the ice packs or gel packs you put in it. The two dominant
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