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
60 episodes
Market Garden Brewery Scales Craft Beer Packaging: Packaging World
How can a company navigate growth when constricted by tight quarters?Market Garden Brewery's nearly all-new packaging line has a rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart. The line handles 100 cans per minute, allowing the company to futu...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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15:26
Moderna Leverages Real-Time Tracking and Thermal Modeling: Healthcare Packaging
What can healthcare companies gain from innovative tracking solutions? Jeff Lander, director of Global Logistics Engineering at Moderna and Paul DellaVilla, director of Digital Solutions and Services at Cold Chain Technologies discu...
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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17:57
Retaining Talent in a Shifting Industry: ProFood World
What are some of the best strategies for retaining talent in a shifting industry?When companies fail to prioritize workforce stability they risk higher turnover rates, increased operational disruptions, and rising recruitment costs.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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12:05
Pet Food Packaging: Packaging World
How can pet food brands continue to evolve their packaging to stand out on the shelves?Heckova!, DoggyLove, and Pure Balance showcase how premium design is being redefined to include sustainability, natural ingredients, and playful brand...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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8:18
Tariffs Affect on the Healthcare Packaging Supply Chain: Healthcare Packaging
How can tariffs serve as an opportunity for companies to re-evaluate and diversify suppliers?To avoid paying high tariffs, companies may implement strategies like inventory buffering, supplier diversification, and scenario planning to bu...
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Episode 56
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13:47
Rebellyous Foods Automates Plant-Based Meat Production: ProFood World
How does production for plant-based meat differ from animal-based meat?Rebellyous Foods' Mock 2 production line automates processes and enhances efficiencies that were absent when the company used traditional animal-based meat machinery....
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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14:55
Recyclable Aluminum Coffee Pod: Packaging World
How can sustainability and single-serve coffee intersect?Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan sits down with Kevin Hartley, CEO of Cambio Roasters, to discuss how the company is introducing the world’s first aluminum coffee pod compatible with...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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17:48
Requirements of Pharmaceutical Packaging Compliance: Healthcare Packaging
How are pharmaceutical companies implementing the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA)?Healthcare Packaging Editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Cuneo sits down with industry expert Aladin Alkhawam to discuss the intricacies and challenges of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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10:04
Land O'Frost Automates on a Budget: ProFood World
How can a company scale automation without a high initial cost?Land O’Frost is reaping the rewards of five palletizers without the typical upfront challenges thanks to the RaaS offering from Formic. The rental of automation equipment has...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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13:42
Palm-Sized Carton Delivers 180 Doses of Skin Care: Packaging World
How can skincare and beauty packaging be more sustainable?Nwär Skin’s Seid skin care products are encapsulated in tiny, dissolvable strips packaged in a paperboard carton. While the product reduces overconsumption, the package ensures re...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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7:28
Addressing Medication Adherence: Healthcare Packaging
How can packaging simplify medication adherence?When enrolled in Amazon's PillPack, customers receive monthly shipments of daily tear-away packets that are personalized and labeled with each medication (and its dosage).This is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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11:01
Organizational Design Principles: ProFood World
How can organizational design principles boost the bottom line? Processors that incorporate all staff levels into decision making can create an environment where long-term greatness is achieved.This is an AI generated epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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8:45
AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots: Packaging World
As AI continues to grow in its capabilities and prevalence, is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?AI chat copilots may be able to assist in alleviating some of the workforce challenges C...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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13:16
At-home Test Kits: Healthcare Packaging
What role does packaging play in ensuring consumers receive accurate results from at-home test kits?With at-home testing becoming normalized after the pandemic, manufacturers should break down the entire process—from receiving the kit to...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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11:46
Linking Strategy to Action: ProFood World
How can companies better communicate with employees and help them understand the company beyond their day-to-day operational activities?The OpX Workforce Engagement document describes how the best CPG companies communicate a compelling v...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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10:44
Robotic Cookie Multi-pack Automation System: Packaging World
What does ZoRoCo Packaging have to offer Partake as a contract manufacturer?Ten delta-style robots that use unique, easily changed end-of-arm tooling to stack cookies into slugs and then place slugs into plastic trays at 700 cookies/min ...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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15:01
Patient Centric Autoinjector Pen: Healthcare Packaging
Why is there an increased prominence of the auto injector pen?Serkan Oray from UCB provides insight to the prevalence of the medical device and discusses the patient centric design of UCB's BIMZELX 160MG 2.This is an AI g...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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12:18
The Scoop on Tillamook's Decatur Plant: ProFood World
Why is West Coast headquartered Tillamook bringing an ice cream plant to Decatur, Illinois?Associate editor, Casey Flanagan shares insights from attending the plant's opening day with Editor-in-chief Derrick Teal. They discuss motives fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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15:37
Sustainability Annual Outlook Report: Packaging World
How are CPGs adapting to consumer pushes for sustainable packaging?Packaging World editors Matt Reynolds and Anne Marie Mohan discuss how CPGs are exploring alternative materials like paper and bio-based plastics. However, despi...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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21:15
Advanced Recycling in Medical Packaging: Healthcare Packaging
What is advanced recycling's role in medical packaging?Its ability to handle a wide variety of materials through centralized collection systems makes it uniquely suited to address medical packaging waste.This is an AI generated...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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14:36
Managing Asset Reliability in Food Production: ProFood World
What do you do when a machine fails? Industry expert, Bryan Griffen and Shawn French, packaging engineering at Danone North America, discuss key details of how to manage asset reliability in food production. They draw on their exten...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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23:05
Automation and Robotics Annual Outlook Report: Packaging World
How do issues in the workforce connect to automation?Packaging World Editor-in-chief Matt Reynolds and OEM Magazine Editor-in-chief Sean Riley discuss survey results from the Automation and Robotics Annual Outlook Report. With 65% of com...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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19:00
Medication Accessibility Meets Packaging Sustainability: Healthcare Packaging
Can packaging be accessible while furthering sustainability goals?SnapSlide Rx enables single-handed operation on prescription pill bottles. The design reduces the plastic used in both the cap and bottle by ≈25% per unit.This i...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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11:14
Hesitancy to Adopt Remote Services: ProFood World
Why are most end users hesitant to invest in remote services?Cost of retrofitting older machinery and poor communication from OEMs are some of the barriers to implementing remote services. This is an AI generated episode....
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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8:26
Once Upon a Farm Automates Case Packing: Packaging World
How does improving case packing benefit a company?For Once Upon a Farm, upgrading their case packer allow for greater hourly throughput and greatly reduces the risk of human error. The baby food company previously needed 12 people to pac...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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11:23