Flexible Packaging

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2020 June

New this month in Flexible Packaging: the challenges facing frozen foods packaging manufacturers, how one horse feed company reworked its packaging design, ecommerce challenges, a personal care brand has what it takes for consumers, when is it time to outsource, and much more.

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Web Industries Inc.
Converting: Slitting/Winding

Is It Time to Outsource?

Consider how printing and slitting/winding operations pays dividends for brands and packaging suppliers.
Dante Ercoli
June 12, 2020
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Although many consumer goods manufacturers (CGMs) and packaging suppliers have comprehensive, fully integrated packaging operations, there are strong arguments that favor outsourcing certain printing, slitting and winding activities to contractors specializing in these areas.
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Machinery: Cannabis

Packaging for the Evolving Cannabis Market

As new products appear and the promise of a bigger marketplace looms, both product and the market play a part in determining the most effective package.
Mark Suchy
June 12, 2020
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The two principle purposes of packaging are to protect the product it carries and the consumer who buys it, and to market that product to purchasers, both directly and indirectly.
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Flexible Focus: Personal Care

The Whole Package: MyKirei by KAO Personal Care Brand

In April 2020, Kao began sales of MyKirei, a brand that embodies the Kirei Lifestyle, in the United States through its subsidiary Kao USA.
June 11, 2020
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MyKirei is a Japanese personal care brand with a collection of products inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kirei. Flexible Packaging spoke to Yoshinori Inagawa, general manager of packaging technology research, global R&D of Kao Corporation about the packaging for MyKirei.


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Materials: Films

Innovations in Flexible Packaging

Stand-up pouches offer benefits for consumers, retailers, brands and the converters that create them.
Cindy Collins Guy Coons
June 11, 2020
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Flexible packaging solutions have been available for a number of years, but innovation is allowing the industry to develop improved functional solutions. Today, the marketplace is seeing tremendous growth with film-faced pouches.
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Flexible By Design: Premium Horse Feed

Packaging that Jumps

Kristin Joker
June 9, 2020
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Minneapolis branding and design agency, Kick, partnered with Triple Crown Nutrition to launch a new, premium line of horse feed, Triple Crown Gold. Flexible Packaging asked Stefan Hartung, co-founder and head of creative at Kick about the process.
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Leading Edge

Skittles Gives Up Its Rainbow on Pride Packs to Celebrate LGBTQ

June 11, 2020
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Skittles is giving up its signature rainbow by removing the iconic colorful branding to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and highlight that only #OneRainbow matters. For the first time in the U.S., the brand is releasing limited-edition packs with a colorless package design and colorless candies inside.
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