This e-book looks at strategies companies are using to reduce packaging for a range of key end-use applications, such as food, beverage, and personal care. It addresses how the packaging supply chain is responding to these strategies, from in-mould labelling innovations to adoption of lightweight packaging for private-label products. The e-book details material trends for polymers, paper and board, metal, and glass and illustrates how creative, lightweight packaging designs are being implemented by retailers and brand owners. This e-book provides an outlook for flexible and rigid plastic packaging, looks at where glass packaging is headed, and how nanotechnology will be used in lightweighting packaging in the future. It also details seven case studies and points to how lightweighting was successfully implemented by major companies who use a array of material sets and target different end-use applications.
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