These are tough times. Pandemic lockdowns, rising costs, wild fires, wars, regulatory restrictions, supply chain bottlenecks, changing customer preferences and other market challenges are slowing manufacturing operations. But if those challenges are slowing production, they often can have the opposite effect on packaging development, forcing packagers off their beaten supply paths in the search for alternative solutions. Packagers and their development partners are always pushing to work around whatever challenges the market presents. A cursory scan of recent new product and packaging advances reveals that a hierarchy of environmental preferability is at play: paper, metal and glass often out ranking plastics in the search for lighter, stronger, more sustainable packaging formats and more streamlined operations.
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