As the e-commerce industry continues to grow at double-digit rates, do you have plan in place to share in that growth? Matt Dingee of OnPoint 2020 provides a playbook for pursuing a successful e-commerce strategy.

The 4th Progress Report from the Global Plastics Alliance shows positive movement, with 355 projects planned, underway, or completed, to address marine debris.

The symbol has two different versions, including one for edibles, and it applies to both medical and recreational products.

The top FPA prize went to a flat-bottom, side-gusset pouch for the freezer aisle. Unlike most stand-up pouches that flair at the top once filled, this "box pouch" remains square like a true carton.

The pharmaceutical industry is knee-deep in transitioning to new product identification requirements for its commercial drugs, with a majority of companies still laboring to achieve compliance with Phase 2 of the 2013 Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) before FDA enforcement begins next November

“You wouldn’t leave a glass of wine out all night and expect it to be fresh or taste the same the next day,” says Serge Chistov from Honest Marijuana Company in Colorado.

As examples from Honest Tea, Snapple, Magic Hat Brewery, and Foobot show, a little packaging creativity-and the courage to use it-can go a long way toward cultivating brand loyalty.

Unusual C-R can endNew from n2 Packaging, the can supplier described in the Honest Marijuana section of this coverage, is an intriguing child-resistant can component sourced out of China. It’s a two-piece approach consisting of a clear plastic ring injection molded of polypropylene and an opaque ove

Design takes flightHarmony Extracts was launched in 2016 with one goal: to create cannabis concentrates of the highest quality. The Denver-based team of roughly 36 employees has quickly risen as a leader in Colorado cannabis concentrates, and package design has played an important role.Austin, TX-ba

Celebrity brandingAthletes For CARE (A4C) is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization that was founded by a group of professional athletes who have united together to raise awareness on issues such as addiction, chronic pain, access to alternative medicines, mental health, CTE, and traumatic brain in

How to target the cannabis consumerLocated in a nondescript building in the heart of Seattle’s industrial SODO district, in a facility that used to house a seafood processing operation, Evergreen Herbal creates cannabis-infused consumer packaged goods for patients and recreational cannabis customers

It’s a 21st century gold rush. People are leaving home, relocating, and changing careers. They’re leaving jobs in finance, marketing, farming, crop science, and a variety of other perfectly respectable fields. You hear about them abandoning cushy paychecks at Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and American E

International market research studies are prophesying rising sales in the global packaging industry right up until 2020. However, experts also believe that this industry is facing a transformation. They say that new demographic conditions, new customer demands, growing purchasing powers on emerging

In mid-January 2018 the EU Commission revealed a new goal: 100 per cent plastic recycling by 2030. At the same time, there is to be a reduction in the consumption of disposable plastic products. To achieve this target, the Commission has now invested EUR 250 million, and another EUR 100 million is t

First, it helps to offer some perspective on where grocery sales fall on the e-commerce growth spectrum.Business-to-business e-commerce sales make up the vast majority of e-commerce transactions. Forrester estimates that B-2-B e-commerce sales in the US will top $1 trillion by 2020.This is a complex

Despite being controversial, the U.S.cannabis industry is growing rapidly.With a product that is quasi-legal, the industry facesmany uncertainties regarding its future direction. At thesame time, the speed at which the industry is growingleaves companies struggling to keep up with demand aswell as t

In the last decade the bioplastics industry was able to hold its own on the packaging market. Numerous products have supplemented classic applications, and themes like sustainable production and disposal have certainly been able to help prompt the entire industry to change course and have advanced t

Can you provide some background on AMERIPEN and the projects and initiatives it has been involved in since it was founded in 2011?Kyla Fisher:AMERIPEN was born in 2011 out of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recycling system financing workshop. Our founders walked out of that meeting with the

Currently, 65% of cannabis sales stem from medical marijuana.Medical now legalized to various degrees in 29 states with legislation pending in 15 more.Recreational or adult use of cannabis (legal in nine states but only in effect in five currently) is fast growing.Recreational usually outpaces medic

Marijuana Business Daily reports that the National Association of Cannabis Businesses (NACB) has developed a set of draft standards to “help NACB members protect consumers and demonstrate to regulators, financial institutions and the public that NACB members operate at the highest levels of ethics a