Through the Line: Packaging and Processing
This podcast explores innovations and information across the packaging and processing landscape, from topics impacting consumer packaged goods and healthcare packaging, to the latest technologies in food processing operations. Join us for the latest insights, trends, and strategies shaping packaging and processing today.
Content hosted by Packaging World, ProFood World, and Healthcare Packaging.
Episodes
122 episodes
Top Episodes of 2025, #2: Digital Display Labels: Healthcare Packaging
The number 2 most downloaded episode of 2025: Merck and Johnson & Johnson form a partnership to collaborate on modernizing the pharmaceutical sector using digital display labels.This is an AI generated episode. The full featured a...
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Episode 122
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11:46
Top Episodes of 2025, #2: Sargento’s Product Development and Manufacturing Work Together for Natural Cheese: ProFood World
The number 2 episode: Casey Flanagan, Associate Editor with ProFood World, sits down with Rod Hogan, Senior Vice President - Innovations at Sargento to discuss how working with manufacturing from the earliest stages of development meets consume...
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Episode 121
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16:13
Top Episodes of 2025, #2: Packaging Trends in Maturing Craft Brew Market: Packaging World
The number 2 most downloaded episode of 2025: Making craft beer stand out among an industry plateau. Packaging World Editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds sits down with Bart Watson, president and CEO of the Brewer's Association, to discuss how brewer...
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Episode 120
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11:51
Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Tracing the Tracks of the Drug and Medical Device Trail: Healthcare Packaging
The number 3 most downloaded episode: One continuously developing tactic to prevent and detect counterfeits and other types of fraud in the medical device space is the ability to track and trace products through serialization. By linking the dr...
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Episode 119
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12:39
Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Land O'Frost Automates on a Budget: ProFood World
The number 3 most downloaded episode: Land O'Frost automates without high initial costs. Thanks to the RaaS offering from Formic, the company's able to avoid the typical upfront challenges of five palletizers. The rental of automation equipment...
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Episode 118
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13:42
Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Tropicana Weathers Blowback from Package Redesign: Packaging World
The number 3 most downloaded episode: Changing packaging design without upsetting the consumer can be challenging to navigate. Tropicana once again redesigned packaging in such a way that cost the company 19% in sales. Packaging World spoke to ...
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Episode 117
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10:17
Top Episodes of 2025, #4: Med Device Sterilization Considerations Amid EPA Regulation: Healthcare Packaging
The #4 most downloaded episode: Editor-in-chief Elisabeth Cuneo sits down with Wendy Mach, Packaging and Sterilization Expert at Canyon Labs, to discuss best practices for medical device companies. They talk about action plans and new innovatio...
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Episode 116
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14:32
Top Episodes of 2025, #4: Upcycling to Combat Food Waste in Manufacturing: ProFood World
The #4 most downloaded episode: Manufactures repurpose food byproducts to reduce their waste as concerns about food waste grows. With so much of the waste happening before the food reaches the consumer, producers are finding new ways to make us...
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Episode 115
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13:28
Top Episodes of 2025, #4: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots: Packaging World
The #4 most downloaded episode: As AI continues to grow in its capabilities and prevalence, it may be time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface. AI chat copilots could assist in alleviating some of the w...
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Episode 114
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13:16
Top Episodes of 2025, #5: Requirements of Pharmaceutical Packaging Compliance: Healthcare Packaging
The #5 most downloaded episode: Healthcare Packaging Editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Cuneo sits down with industry expert Aladin Alkhawam to discuss the intricacies and challenges of implementing the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) in the cur...
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Episode 113
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10:04
Top Episodes of 2025, #5: Rebellyous Foods Automates Plant-Based Meat Production: ProFood World
The #5 most downloaded episode: Rebellyous Foods' Mock 2 production line has a multi-faceted impact on the company’s alternative protein processing endeavors. It automates processes and enhances efficiencies that were absent when the company us...
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Episode 112
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14:55
Top Episodes of 2025, #5 SC Johnson Calls for EPR Clarity at Packaging Recycling Summit: Packaging World
The #5 most downloaded episode: Packaging World editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds and Jeff Bezzo, executive director of plastic and packaging sustainability at SC Johnson, discussed harmonization across states as a potential catalyst for EPR compl...
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Episode 111
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12:41
Fiber Closures Revolutionizes Nutraceutical Packaging: Healthcare Packaging
How can sustainability-driven innovation achieve functional, regulatory, and cost parity with plastic?Learn about the full commercial rollout of fiber-based screw caps by Swedish nutraceutical brand Great Earth, a result of collabo...
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Episode 110
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14:40
Virtual Process Simulations for RTE Meal Producer: ProFood World
How can digital twin technology increase production line efficiency?Uitgekookt, a Dutch company that prepares and delivers custom-made, RTE meals, is working with Visual Components to make use of a digital twin simulation. The simulation...
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Episode 109
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11:31
Glacier's AI Tool Turns Recycling Data into Insight: Packaging World
How can brands better understand what actually happens to their packaging?Pilots with Colgate-Palmolive and Amazon helped shape Glacier’s new DataStream platform, a subscription tool launched today that lets CPGs verify recyclability per...
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Episode 108
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14:48
Teva Proves Sea Freight for Temperature- Sensitive Medicines: Healthcare Packaging
How can strict temperature control be maintained over sea routes, while ensuring full compliance and product integrity?Teva Pharmaceuticals, in partnership with Kuehne + Nagel and Cold Chain Technologies (CCT), successfully validat...
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Episode 107
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14:39
Experts Urge Clear Framing on Ultra-Processed Foods: ProFood World
What do CPGs need to know as consumers become more skeptical of ultra-processed foods?During the Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network's ‘Ultra-Processed Foods’ panel in Chicago on Oct. 22, food industry experts offered insight into th...
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Episode 106
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12:17
Nextloopp is Solving America's Polypropylene Recycling Puzzle: Packaging World
How can polypropylene, one of the most widely used plastics in consumer packaging, be diverted from landfills or incinerators?Packaging World Senior Editor, Anne Marie Mohan, sits down with Professor Edward Kosior, CEO and founder of Nex...
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Episode 105
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18:53
The Three C's of Sustainable Packaging: Healthcare Packaging
What are three components to consider for sustainable healthcare packaging?The growing trend of sustainable pharmaceutical packaging relies on commitment, circularity, and cost. Companies like Opella and AbbVie are implementing st...
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Episode 104
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14:37
A Roadmap to Food and Beverage Power Transmission: ProFood World
What do food and beverage operations need to know to choose power transmission wisely and run efficiently?Choosing the right motor, belt, or gearbox isn’t just a matter of specs. It’s about fit, function, and future-readiness. This ProFo...
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Episode 103
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14:36
Logitech Switches to Paper for Mouse Packaging: Packaging World
How has online shopping changed the needs of packaging?Computer peripherals and software company, Logitech, has nearly completed a transition from plastic clamshells to paper-based packaging for its hallmark computer mice. The switch com...
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Episode 102
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9:27
Automatic Capsule Filling Machine Ramps Up Production for Co-Man: Healthcare Packaging
How can automation impact a co-man's production capability?Yundu Machinery Technology Co., Ltd, a contract manufacturer dedicated to the health and wellness sector, turned to an automatic capsule filling machine to ramp up its production...
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Episode 101
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10:59
Increasing Potential from Existing Production Lines: ProFood World
Do you truly maximize the lines you already have?In most processing facilities, there’s a gap between what the line is doing and what it could be doing. That gap may be caused by inefficiencies in changeovers, unplanned...
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Episode 100
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14:45
Kopu Water Brings Aluminum Bottles to Luxury Hotels: Packaging World
Why does aluminum reign supreme for recyclable packaging materials?Kopu Water is helping hotels and resorts make a sustainable shift by offering a bottled water program that replaces glass packaging with lightweight, recyclable aluminum ...
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Episode 99
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9:25
AI Tools Promise Improved Tracking & Trace for Life Sciences: Healthcare Packaging
Despite the potential benefits, why does the reported adoption rate of AI for supply chain tracking and tracing in the U.S. life sciences industry remain low?AI tools are being implemented in the life sciences supply chain, enhancing tra...
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Episode 98
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19:20