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
Finding a packaging manufacturer overseas can cut your unit costs dramatically, but it also introduces risk you don’t face working with a domestic printer: you can’t drive over and inspect the work, contracts are harder to enforce, and a single bad deposit can wipe out
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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 the classic pink or white styrofoam peanuts, or switch to the plant-based cornstarch kind that dissolve in a sink. The two look almost identical 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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Packaura
/ August 26, 2026
Handing a designer a vague brief like “make it feel premium” is how packaging projects end up in three rounds of revisions that still miss the mark. A mood board closes that gap: it turns fuzzy feelings into a shared visual reference that shows, rather
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Packaura
/ August 26, 2026
If your packaging is labeled compostable in the U.S., regulators, retailers, and buyers increasingly expect proof, not just a marketing claim. ASTM D6400 is the technical standard behind that proof, and third-party certification, most commonly through the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), is how you demonstrate
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Packaura
/ August 25, 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 ExxonMobil Signature Polymers launches mono-material frozen food packaging ExxonMobil Signature Polymers has worked with LD PACK to develop a frozen
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Packaura
/ August 25, 2026
If you sell essential oils, the biggest legal risk usually isn’t your ingredient list — it’s your marketing copy. The FDA doesn’t regulate essential oils as a category; it regulates them based on what your label, website, and sales reps say they do. Cross the
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Packaura
/ August 25, 2026
A window cutout is one of the cheapest ways to make a box sell itself — instead of relying on a photo or copy to describe what’s inside, you let the shopper see the actual product. Done well, it cuts return rates and builds trust
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Packaura
/ August 25, 2026
Committing to a packaging supplier based on a spec sheet or a product photo is one of the most common — and most expensive — mistakes small businesses make. Cardboard that looks sturdy in a listing can crush under real warehouse stacking, and a “premium”
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Packaura
/ August 24, 2026
If a buyer at Walmart, Costco, Target, or a regional grocery chain has ever told you your packaging needs to be “retail-ready,” you’ve probably found the term easy to hear and hard to pin down. It’s not a single spec sheet — it’s a set
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