Package Design & Production

PepsiCo will replace the plastic rings traditionally used on its multi-pack bottles with new paperboard designs.

Beam Suntory is going greener for its iconic green Laphroaig scotch whisky bottle. 

Amazon is testing AI-generated consumer reviews, rolling out features that pick out and summarize common customer sentiment towards particular products.

The Kraft Heinz Company has updated its sustainable packaging goals to include the reduction of its use of virgin plastic by 20% within its global packaging portfolio by 2030.

The Coca-Cola Company is moving forward with several reusable packaging pilots in North America, including one that replaces single-use cups with reusable ones at large venues.

Helen of Troy’s Project Pegasus global restructuring initiative is starting to bear fruit, according to company leaders, as the consumer goods company doubles down on finding operational efficiencies. 

These five CPGs have introduced sustainable packaging alternatives and solutions for some of their most popular products.

Furthering their goal of creating a 100 percent bio-based bottle while reducing their C02 emissions, the 500ml-sized bottles will be sold exclusively in 22 stores of the British supermarket chain Tesco.

The company will emphasize sustainability for the hundreds of millions of packages they ship yearly, adopting measures to reduce packaging waste for online orders.

In this edited webinar transcript, Scott Isaacson, manager of data science for Citrine Informatics and Rob Kieschke, former senior director for AI and software research in the 3M Digital Science Community paint a picture of what the future of automation within product innovation might look like, and how to manage change as the pace of these innovations gains momentum.