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Packaura
/ September 10, 2026
If your brand sells packaged goods into California, Oregon, Colorado, or Maine, you may be swept into that state’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging law even if you’re a small operation. The good news: all four programs carve out a “small producer” or de minimis
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Packaura
/ September 9, 2026
If you wrap, smoke, or sell food for a living, “butcher paper” and “food-safe” aren’t automatically the same thing. Genuine butcher paper made for direct food contact is regulated under FDA rules, but a lot of paper sold under that name — including cheap kraft
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Packaura
/ September 8, 2026
Tea is one of the more demanding products to package well. It has to stay away from light, oxygen, moisture, and odors to keep its flavor, and it has to look worth picking up next to dozens of competing pouches and tins on a shelf
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Packaura
/ September 8, 2026
Here’s this week’s Packaura roundup — 10 items across Packaging Industry, Materials & Recycling. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Packaging Industry Dantex to unveil ‘industry-first PAL AI operator support’ at LOUPE Americas 2026 Dantex Group will unveil PAL – Pico Adaptive
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Packaura
/ September 7, 2026
A coffee bag has one job before it ever reaches a customer’s cup: keep the beans as fresh as the day they were roasted. But it also has to do a second job at the same time — stop a browsing shopper or scrolling customer
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Packaura
/ September 7, 2026
Traditional box manufacturers still want you to commit to thousands of units before they’ll even quote a custom design, which is a nonstarter when you’re testing a new product or running a small batch. The good news is that digital printing has made true low-MOQ
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Packaura
/ September 6, 2026
Packaging industry news this week was dominated by a third wave of containerboard price hikes, a landmark federal court win for Oregon’s extended producer responsibility law, and the very first global World Packaging Day. Anyone tracking packaging industry news closely also saw compostable materials face
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Packaura
/ September 2, 2026
Slapping a leaf icon and the words “carbon neutral” on a box used to be enough to win over eco-conscious shoppers. Not anymore. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are now treating unverified carbon claims as deceptive advertising, and in the EU, offset-based product
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Packaura
/ September 1, 2026
Here’s this week’s Packaura roundup — 11 items across Packaging Industry, Materials & Recycling. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Packaging Industry BRC calls for reform as PRN charges ‘double in one year’ The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is warning that retailers
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Packaura
/ September 1, 2026
Private labeling lets you sell a product without building the factory that makes it — you source a stock item from a manufacturer, then wrap it in your own brand. The packaging is where that brand actually gets made real, and it’s also where a
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Packaura
/ August 31, 2026
If you’ve searched for an overseas packaging manufacturer, you’ve probably hit the same wall every time: a page of Alibaba listings, a few “verified supplier” badges, and no real way to tell an actual factory from a trading company reselling someone else’s production line. That
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Packaura
/ August 31, 2026
If you’ve ever typed “custom mailer boxes” or “rigid gift box manufacturer” into a sourcing site, you already know the problem: Alibaba, Global Sources, and Made-in-China all return thousands of results, and the differences between the platforms only become obvious after you’ve wasted a few
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Packaura
/ August 29, 2026
If you’re choosing packaging for an ecommerce brand, the kraft-vs-poly debate isn’t as simple as “paper good, plastic bad.” Each material has a different environmental profile depending on how it’s made, how it’s disposed of, and what you’re actually shipping. This guide walks through how
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Packaura
/ August 29, 2026
If a customer can open your package, reseal it, and hand it back to a store shelf without anyone noticing, you have a packaging problem — not just a security one. Tamper-evident seals close that gap by leaving unmistakable, irreversible proof when a package has
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Packaura
/ August 28, 2026
If you ship products in boxes, you’ve probably faced the loose-fill decision: reach for classic pink or white styrofoam peanuts, or switch to the plant-based cornstarch kind that dissolve in a sink. The two look almost identical sitting in a box, but they behave very
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Packaura
/ August 28, 2026
If you’ve ever gotten a packaging quote and seen a mysterious line item for “tooling” that’s bigger than your first production run, you’re not alone. Tooling covers the physical hardware — dies, molds, and printing plates — that a manufacturer has to build before they
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Packaura
/ August 28, 2026
If a box keeps popping open in transit, or a customer says a package arrived with the tape peeling loose, the tape itself is usually the culprit — not the box. The two main contenders for carton sealing are water-activated tape (also called gummed tape
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Packaura
/ August 27, 2026
Nothing undermines a brand faster than packaging that looks like a different color every time it comes off press — a logo that’s teal on the box, blue on the label, and grayish on the shipping mailer. The Pantone Matching System (PMS) exists to solve
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Packaura
/ August 27, 2026
Picking the wrong shipping package costs money twice: once when you overpay for protection you didn’t need, and again when a product arrives damaged because you under-packed it. Poly mailers, padded mailers, and corrugated boxes each solve a different problem, and the right choice usually
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Packaura
/ August 26, 2026
If you’re pricing a product using only the quote your packaging supplier gave you per case, you’re almost certainly underestimating what packaging actually costs you. The invoice price is just one input — material waste, tooling amortization, freight, and duties all quietly add to the
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