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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Packaura
/ August 24, 2026
If your brand sells packaged products to Washington consumers, a new law now makes you responsible for what happens to that packaging after it leaves the shelf. Washington’s Recycling Reform Act (SB 5284) created the state’s first extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for packaging and
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Packaura
/ August 23, 2026
“Compostable” is one of the most abused words on a package, and it’s also one of the most legally risky ones to get wrong. Several states now require third-party certification before you can even print the word on a box, and buyers are getting sharper
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Packaura
/ August 23, 2026
Electronics don’t just need to survive a drop — they need to survive static discharge, vibration, and crushing pressure from stacked pallets, often all in the same shipment. Get the packaging wrong and you’re looking at fried circuit boards, cracked screens, or a return that
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Packaura
/ August 23, 2026
If you ship physical products, the void-fill material you choose affects three things at once: whether items arrive intact, how much you spend per box, and how your brand looks to a customer who just opened it. Paper cushioning and foam inserts sit at opposite
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Packaura
/ August 22, 2026
Maine made history in 2021 as the first U.S. state to pass an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging, shifting the cost of recycling packaging waste from municipalities onto the companies that put that packaging into the market. If you sell packaged goods into
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Packaura
/ August 22, 2026
The closure on a folding carton is easy to treat as an afterthought, but it quietly decides three things: how much the box costs per unit, how well it protects what’s inside, and what impression a customer forms in the first three seconds of opening
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Packaura
/ August 21, 2026
“Bioplastic” isn’t one material — PLA, PHA, PBS, and TPS behave nothing alike once they’re on a shelf or in a compost bin. Mixing them up leads to packaging that cracks in a hot delivery van, bags that dissolve in humidity, or compostable claims that
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Packaura
/ August 21, 2026
Most shoppers decide whether to pick up a product in a few seconds, and what they read in that window is almost entirely packaging copy. Get it wrong and a great product sits on the shelf; get it right and the package does the selling
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Packaura
/ August 21, 2026
If you’ve seen “GS1 Sunrise 2027” mentioned by a retailer partner or packaging vendor and aren’t sure what it actually requires you to do, you’re not alone. It sounds like a hard deadline, but it’s really a market-readiness target: by the end of 2027, GS1
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Packaura
/ August 20, 2026
Clients hiring a packaging designer aren’t just checking whether you can make something look good — they want proof you can solve real constraints: shelf standout, print production, materials, and brand fit. A portfolio full of pretty renders but no context won’t convince them you
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Packaura
/ August 19, 2026
Energy drink brands face a labeling puzzle the FDA never fully spelled out in one place: is your product a beverage or a dietary supplement, and does that choice change what has to be on the can? Get it wrong and you risk a warning
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Packaura
/ August 19, 2026
Placing a bulk packaging order without a proper sample approval process is one of the fastest ways to lose money in this business. A color that looked right on screen prints wrong on kraft stock, a box that fit the mockup doesn’t survive shipping, or
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