Packaura
/ July 21, 2026
Order a custom box and you’ll hit a wall of acronyms almost immediately: Kraft, SBS, FBB, CCNB. They all look like brown or white cardboard on a spec sheet, but they behave very differently once they’re folded, printed, shipped, and unboxed by a customer. This
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Packaura
/ July 19, 2026
Shipping perishable food or beverages sustainably sounds simple until you actually try it. EPS foam coolers keep temperature reliably but are getting banned or restricted in a growing list of states, while some “eco” alternatives fall apart in transit or fail to hold temperature long
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Packaura
/ July 18, 2026
Pet food brands face a packaging problem that’s harder than it looks: bags need to block moisture, oxygen, and fat for months on a shelf, survive shipping, and still satisfy retailers, regulators, and increasingly skeptical pet owners who check the bag for recycling claims before
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Packaura
/ July 18, 2026
Switching to sustainable packaging feels like it should be simple: swap plastic for something greener. In practice, e-commerce brands have to weigh a half-dozen materials against very different cost structures, protection levels, and recycling or composting realities — and getting it wrong means damaged shipments,
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Packaura
/ July 17, 2026
Pick the wrong paperboard grade and you’ll find out the hard way — either your box costs more than it needs to, or it cracks on the fold, tears in transit, or looks dull next to a competitor’s product on the shelf. Most folding cartons
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Packaura
/ July 17, 2026
A vegan logo on a box or label is supposed to be a quick trust signal, but the packaging itself can quietly break the promise. Adhesives, inks, coatings, and even the glue in a shipping carton sometimes contain animal-derived ingredients like gelatin, casein, tallow, beeswax,
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Packaura
/ July 16, 2026
Packaging is often the first physical touchpoint a customer has with your handmade brand, and it does double duty: it has to protect a one-of-a-kind item during shipping and make an impression good enough to get photographed and shared. For makers selling on Etsy, at
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
Retail buyers and customers now treat sustainable packaging as a baseline expectation rather than a bonus, but “going plastic-free” isn’t a single material swap you can make in an afternoon. It touches your primary container, the closure, the secondary carton, the shipper, and the claims
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Packaura
/ July 13, 2026
If you’ve been comparing packaging suppliers, you’ve probably seen both the FSC checkmark-and-tree logo and the SFI green tree label on box specs, and wondered whether they mean the same thing. They don’t — and picking the wrong one (or not checking for either) can
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Packaura
/ July 13, 2026
If you sell physical products, your packaging is doing double duty: it protects what’s inside and it tells customers what you stand for. The problem is that “sustainable” and “affordable” can feel like opposite goals, especially when a supplier’s glossy catalog is full of unfamiliar
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Packaura
/ July 12, 2026
Picking a packaging material is one of the first decisions a skincare or cosmetics brand has to make, and it’s easy to get stuck comparing glass, plastic, and aluminum on looks alone. Each material behaves differently once it’s holding a real formula on a real
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Packaura
/ July 12, 2026
The protective materials inside your shipping boxes are a small detail with an outsized environmental footprint. Bubble wrap has been the default for decades — familiar, effective, and cheap. But as consumer expectations shift and packaging regulations tighten, more e-commerce brands are asking whether paper
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Packaura
/ July 12, 2026
Picking a packaging material feels like it should be simple until you start requesting quotes and realize every option trades off cost, shelf appeal, barrier performance, and sustainability differently. A material that looks great on a jam jar can fail completely on a bag of
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Packaura
/ July 11, 2026
Sourcing packaging for frozen food means solving two problems at once: the material has to survive sub-zero storage without cracking, fogging, or letting in oxygen, and it has to satisfy two very different regulatory systems if you sell in both the US and the EU.
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Packaura
/ July 10, 2026
“Eco-friendly,” “green,” and “sustainable” are printed on packaging catalogs so often that the words have started to mean almost nothing. Every supplier claims some version of sustainability, but far fewer can actually back it up with certifications, test data, or a credible end-of-life story for
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Packaura
/ July 6, 2026
“Eco-friendly” packaging isn’t one thing — it’s at least two competing systems, and picking the wrong one for your market can mean containers that end up in a landfill no matter what the label promises. Compostable and recyclable packaging both sound like the responsible choice,
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Packaura
/ July 6, 2026
Picking a can material feels like a small decision until you’re locked into a supplier, a tooling cost, and a shelf look you can’t easily change. Tinplate and aluminum are the two dominant choices for aerosol packaging, and each pulls a brand in a different
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Packaura
/ July 5, 2026
This week’s packaging industry news spans coast-to-coast regulatory deadlines, the steepest paperboard price cycle in years, and a new wave of biobased material breakthroughs. New rules in Virginia, California, Connecticut, and Washington all snapped into effect on July 1, while the EU’s sweeping PPWR looms
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Packaura
/ July 3, 2026
If you’re sourcing compostable packaging, you’ve probably run into two resin names over and over: PLA and PBAT. They’re often blended together in the same pouch or film, but they behave very differently on their own — and picking the wrong one (or the wrong
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Packaura
/ June 29, 2026
If you’ve reached for a glass jar over a plastic bottle because it felt more sustainable — or more premium, or just plain better — you’re not alone, and the science doesn’t always back that instinct. Life cycle assessments (LCAs), which track environmental impact from
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