Packaura
/ October 17, 2026
Choosing the right packaging material for a pet food line is a balancing act between shelf life, cost, bag strength, and increasingly, how the package can be disposed of or recycled. The wrong choice can mean stale kibble, torn bags on a pallet, or a
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Packaura
/ October 10, 2026
Pick up almost any bag of roasted coffee and you’ll find a small round button on the front, a surprisingly rigid wall for something that looks like paper, and seams that feel thicker than a regular food pouch. None of that is decorative. Each element
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Packaura
/ October 4, 2026
If you ship or package products in thin plastic bags, you’ve probably seen the familiar warning: “Keep this bag away from babies and children.” What’s less obvious is that this isn’t just a courtesy line — in several states it’s a legal requirement with specific
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Packaura
/ October 3, 2026
Stand-up pouches are everywhere in food, pet care, beauty, and household goods because they’re light, shelf-stable, and cheap to ship. The problem is that most traditional pouches are laminates of several different plastics (plus foil or metallization), which makes them effectively unrecyclable in curbside or
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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
/ 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 16, 2026
If you’re specifying a pouch or bag structure and need to decide between metallized film and aluminum foil, the choice comes down to how much barrier protection your product actually needs versus what you’re willing to pay for in cost, weight, and recyclability tradeoffs. This
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Packaura
/ August 14, 2026
If you’re specifying a film for a pouch, wrapper, or lamination and keep seeing ‘BOPP’ and ‘PET’ (BOPET/polyester) thrown around interchangeably, they are not the same material — and picking the wrong one can mean a product that goes stale early, seals poorly on your
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Packaura
/ July 12, 2026
Choosing between rigid and flexible packaging is one of the first decisions a brand makes when bringing a product to market, and it shapes everything downstream: unit cost, shipping weight, shelf presence, and how sustainable your packaging actually is once you factor in materials and
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Packaura
/ July 8, 2026
A retort pouch looks like a simple foil bag, but it’s doing something most flexible packaging never has to survive: sitting in a pressurized steam autoclave at well over 250°F while staying sealed, intact, and food-safe. Get the material stack wrong and you don’t find
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Packaura
/ July 7, 2026
Shelf life lives or dies on one question: how much oxygen, moisture, light, and aroma can get through the package wall? For most flexible packaging, the answer comes down to which barrier layer is built into the film — and there are really only four
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Packaura
/ June 7, 2026
Weekly packaging news this week centers on stalled EPR legislation, fresh pressure on flexible film recycling, packaging plant closures, and new material shifts in aluminum, paper, and reuse systems. Materials & Sustainability Paper and paperboard production declined in 2025 AF&PA data showed paper and paperboard
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Packaura
/ May 14, 2026
Mono-material packaging has emerged as the dominant design strategy for brands targeting recyclability gains under EPR fee schedules and the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. By eliminating multi-substrate laminates that confound material recovery facilities, mono-material structures unlock recycling stream eligibility, reduce EPR liability, and
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Packaura
/ May 10, 2026
Packaging news May 2026 is squarely focused on the May 31 EPR Annual Supply Report deadline, now three weeks out. This week brought a wave of last-minute compliance guidance from Circular Action Alliance, fresh PFAS enforcement signals from the EU, and updated fee modeling from
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Packaura
/ April 22, 2026
Choosing between flexible packaging and rigid packaging is one of the most consequential decisions a brand makes during product development. The packaging format you select affects everything from shelf appeal and shipping costs to sustainability credentials and barrier performance. Understanding the core differences between flexible
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