Packaging World

Is laser coding/marking directly onto a fresh produce, like avocados or mangos, really #packaging? Maybe we're being too inclusive, but we think so. Coding and marking are packaging operations, and nature designed great packaging in mango/avocado hides. Westfalia Fruit is bringing more 'tattooed fruit' to market using Videojet Technologies equipment to laser etch info onto produce. It eliminates non-recyclable, plastic price look-up stickers. But maybe even more interesting, it allows for complex logos, clever messaging, and potentially even 2D data matrices (you hear that, GS1?) to be printed directly onto fruit in corrugated cases. https://lnkd.in/gEabrR9N

We've reported on this in varying degrees of completeness since the early October announcement. First GreenBlue Org's new How2Recycle® (H2R) Forward program refreshing the label symbology, announced at Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC)'s Advance in Chicago. Shortly after, involvement with The Recycling Partnership's Recycle Check dynamic label in the form of How2Recycle Plus piece of the wider Forward platform, and finally Danone's in-market use of How2Recycle Plus on its Silk product. But this article, on the cover of our last issue, should wrap most of the details and moving pieces in one spot.

Snack producers say the training cycle for machine operators tends to be shorter than that of maintenance technicians, but nearly a third of snack machine operators leave within a year of employment. #Workforce #Snack #Machinery https://buff.ly/3OZ0aXu

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Learn How PET is Shaping the Packaging Industry As the demand for sustainable packaging grows, PET has emerged as a transformative choice in the food and beverage industry. In this exclusive webinar, join Husky on December 10 to explore how PET packaging can help your brand meet both sustainability goals and operational efficiencies. Our expert-led session will cover: - PET’s unique properties and why it’s gaining traction over materials like glass and aluminum - The role of PET in preserving food quality and reducing waste - Best practices for high-quality PET packaging production Learn how PET packaging can support your brand’s journey toward sustainability while improving cost-effectiveness and food security. Don’t miss this chance to stay at the forefront of packaging innovation. Register today! https://buff.ly/4ioskIC

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Hear directly from 10 of the speakers from the AIPIA & AWA Alexander Watson Associates Smart Packaging Congress, held last week in Amsterdam, in this collection of "quotables."

Surveyed snack producers are looking for automation geared toward things like troubleshooting and flexibility for new product innovations. #snack #machinery #automation

Have a kid wondering what to major in at school? Here's a thought-provoking Artificial Intelligence thought from AI trailblazer NVIDIA's Rev Lebaredian from Rockwell Automation's #ROKevents Automation Fair this morning, who spoke with Rockwell CEO Blake Moret. Lebaredian said, “Up until pretty recently when people would come up to me and ask, 'what should my child study in college?’ Typically, I’d tell them computer science, at least as a minor. Because no matter what you do, it would be very useful to be able to understand how a computer works and translate what you need into a computer program to help you build tools for that thing you're interested in. Nowadays, I don't think that's good advice. What's more valuable is having that domain experience. So I tell them, ‘have them go study material science or, or physics, fluid dynamics, or pharmaceuticals and medicine, things that are important in the real world around us. And go deep in that, because we're essentially going to have an unlimited number of [artificial] computer scientists and computer programmers to help you there. Of course, there's still going to be a need for computer scientists like me to build the, the systems that will produce the virtual computer scientists we can all take advantage of. But the value of the domain knowledge is now far, far greater than the knowledge on how to program a computer, or how to build a computing system. That's going be taken care of for everyone [by AI]. So we humans can go deeper into each domain.” "It's really unique in the history of computing, in that the more advanced this technology gets, the easier it is to use. That hasn't been true for most of the other technologies that preceded it. Using natural language to to help with programming is unusual ... up until recently, if you want to write a computer program tell a computer what to do, you have to study a lot, you have to go do a lot of work to understand how a computer works, how computer languages work, and how to make them do these things correctly. But we're in an era now where we can speak to a computer with natural language, tell it what to do, and it translates our intentions into an actual program. It's not perfect yet, but it's actually pretty good already, and it's getting better and better, and it's not going to be long until essentially every person on earth is going to be a computer programmer, because they can program just by instructing a computer in the way they talk to any other, any other human, any other agent that walks from amongst us." More: https://lnkd.in/g-KWKFnP