Manufacturer: Inland Packaging; inlandpackaging.com

Description: Dr Loretta’s anti-aging repair moisturizer gives elegance and functionality all in one. This packaging is a light blue color with clear text to ensure visibility to all consumers. The design exudes a clean, clinical aesthetic, mirroring the dermatologist-developed nature of the product. The easy-to-open design with tear notches in the corners of the packaging elevates this product to consumers. 

Manufacturer: ProAmpac; proampac.com/en-us 

Description: The ProActive Recyclable^® R-2100 package, designed for Nestlé Toll House^® Morsels, replaces traditional multi-material laminates with a recyclable mono-material solution. Approved for store drop-off PE-based recycling, R-2100 offers high heat resistance, maintaining production line speeds without compromising product integrity. With its mono-material structure, the packaging helps meet Nestlé’s ambitions for sustainability while preserving the quality and freshness of its iconic morsels. This innovative design ensures enhanced shelf impact with high-quality graphics, superior barrier protection, and a strong commitment to environmental responsibility. 

Manufacturer: Printpack; printpack.com 

Description: The Fresh Express® Hot or Cold Salad and Noodle Meal Kit is a new product for the value- added salad category. Each of the three flavors is highlighted with a bold, high-definition, “half and half” photo demonstrating to consumers both of the ways the product can be served. The colorful main backgrounds feature tone-on-tone designs with fans and geometric, traveling lines and curves. All of the graphic elements combine to create a package designed to catch the consumer’s eye and stand out from the competition on the shelf. 

Manufacturer: Amcor Flexibles North America; amcor.com/afna 

Description: ALDI leverages Amcor’s FreshCase® active technology for fresh, tender Black Angus steaks that maintain their natural red color. FreshCase® solves the challenges of conventional case-ready packaging to provide the fresh red color that three out of four consumers prefer. The package delivers an additional 25–30 days of shelf life and lowers materials cost by 25%. Ideal for online grocery and delivery, the freezer-friendly format keeps steaks fresh in the consumer fridge seven times longer. The package provides 75% source reduction by weight and uses 50% less corrugate, replacing problematic PVC overwrap and styrofoam trays. 

Company: American Packaging Corporation; americanpackaging.com

Description: American Packaging Corporation (APC) and The Hershey Company advanced sustainability by providing consumers with recycle-ready flexible packaging for their favorite snack-size peg bag items. Transitioning to recycle-ready, all-PE structures creates challenges as recycle-ready films are more extensible, hazier, and more heat-sensitive. Collaborating with our suppliers to advance PE technology, investing in specialized printing/laminating equipment designed for extensible films, and combining with our process control expertise, APC demonstrated how to drive significant improvement in the printing/processing capability required by recycle-ready packaging. APC and Hershey created store drop-off recycle-ready packaging solutions for their consumers with excellent shelf life and shelf presence.

Company: Amcor Flexibles North America; amcor.com/afna

Description: Amcor drives sustainability in frozen food packaging with an attention-getting new stand-up pouch for Armour^® Italian Meatballs. The colorful recycle-ready package reflects the Armour^® brand values, delivers on the company’s environmental goals, and meets state and market mandates. Made with AmPrima^® Plus rollstock for optimum efficiency, the recycle-ready technology delivers equivalent stiffness, print quality, and run speeds to match the performance of current unrecyclable alternatives. AmPrima® Plus is developed with the Association of Plastic Recyclers’ Testing Guidance and has passed APR’s Critical Guidance Testing for the store drop-off stream.