PACK EXPO International 2026 will put students on the show floor, not on the sidelines. From Oct. 18 to 21 at McCormick Place in Chicago, the next generation of packaging and processing professionals will build machines, demonstrate robots, race between exhibitor booths and meet potential employers, with six high school teams competing for up to …
Envapack.com went from 265,000 to 350,000 page views between August and September 2026. Here is what that growth means for its advertisers.
Sustainable packaging materials are reshaping how brands and machine builders work together, but cost and performance risk still slow the shift. That is the central finding of The New Material World: Packaging’s Path Toward Sustainability 2025, a research report from PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. As end users move toward more sustainable materials, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are adapting their machinery to deliver innovative solutions without compromising performance.
Europe dominates the global cheese market, with a share of nearly 50%. Rising cheese consumption, an increasing variety of product formats, and new regulatory requirements are driving demand for packaging that protects cheese as a natural product while combining material efficiency, processability, and recyclability. This makes it increasingly important for manufacturers and packers to take a holistic view of the entire system – from the product and packaging to machinery, logistics, retail, and consumer use.
China doesn’t use warning seals or traffic-light labels: it requires a label printed in Chinese, with exact correspondence to the label in the language of origin, and a visible customs registration number on the package before the product can be sold. Today the rule in force is GB 7718-2011, but it already has an expiration …
The United States has no warning seals. Its food label rests on the Nutrition Facts panel, the declaration of nine major allergens and the bioengineered food disclosure, all under FDA’s 21 CFR Part 101. But 2026 and 2027 bring three changes that land squarely on the package: Red No. 3 must be out of food by January 15, 2027, the new “healthy” definition carries a February 2028 compliance date, and a proposed front-of-package rule is still waiting to be finalized.
