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.
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Content hosted by Packaging World, ProFood World, and Healthcare Packaging.
Episodes
245 episodes
The Human Core of Operational Agility: ProFood World
What happens when a plant full of flexible equipment hits a problem no one on the line feels confident enough to solve?Scenario-based training and frontline ownership are helping food and beverage processors shorten changeovers, reduce d...
Robotics Trends PACK EXPO 2025: Packaging World
What if the biggest shift in packaging robotics isn't a new capability at all, but a price tag?Chief Editor Matt Reynolds and Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan preview the robotics innovations heading to PACK EXPO International, tracing wha...
Oregon's EPR Appeal, Lighting and Food Safety, and Smarter Inhalers: End of the Line
PMMI Media Group's chief editors, Liz Cuneo, Derrick Teal, Matt Reynolds, and Sean Riley sit down to discuss why one missing screw in a light fixture can contaminate a plant, how particle design is reshaping inhalers, and what P&G's club-ch...
Blister Lines Shift Focus from Speed to Flexibility: Healthcare Packaging
Why are pharma customers no longer asking equipment makers how fast a blister line runs?Equipment manufacturers Körber, Romaco, and IMA Safe explain how shrinking batch sizes and high-mix production have made overall equipment effectiven...
A Virtual Tour of Machinery, Materials, and Market Trends from interpack 2026: ProFood World
How do you turn a sprawling, 18-hall European trade show into something you can actually navigate from your desk?Associate Editor Casey Flanagan and Editor-in-Chief Derek Teal break down how they turned their interpack coverage into an i...
How Face Reality Solved its Over-packaging Problem at Scale: Packaging World
How do you package a $10 eye cream and a heavy glass jar in the same box without shipping air or breaking anything?Kate Kollerer, chief operations and technology officer at Face Reality, and Fiona Lowbridge, chief commercial officer at A...
Where RFID Pays Off, the Shrink Sleeve Comeback, and Drones Delivering Medicine: End of the Line
PMMI Media Group's chief editors, Liz Cuneo, Derrick Teal, Matt Reynolds, and Sean Riley sit down to discuss RFID's move to the case level, Kikkoman's new Wisconsin plant, and why changeover now outranks speed.
The Label Waste Index Tackles Regulated Packaging's Sustainability Problem: Healthcare Packaging
Why do perfectly good pre-printed labels end up in the incinerator by the thousands—and why doesn't anyone treat it as a sustainability problem?This episode unpacks the structural flaw behind label waste in regulated healthcare packaging...
How Almondco Scaled Throughput 70% Without Cracking a Single Kernel: ProFood World
How do you scale almond processing throughput by 70% without cracking a single delicate kernel?This episode explores Almondco's Project Optimize, a 10,000-square-meter facility expansion built around six custom Flexicon tubular cable con...
Coding and Marking Trends at Pack EXPO 2025: Packaging World
What happens when data-dense 2D codes push up against the packaging line speeds brands can't afford to slow down?Chief Editor Matt Reynolds and Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan preview the coding, marking, and labeling innovations heading ...
The Why Behind NDC-12, Sustainable Manufacturing, and Scratch & Sniff IcyHot: End of the Line
PMMI Media Group's chief editors, Liz Cuneo, Derrick Teal, Matt Reynolds, and Sean Riley sit down to discuss a new scratch & sniff package, sustainable energy systems, and using AI fluency as a job hook.
The Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Healthcare Packaging
What's driving the pharmaceutical industry's forecasted addition of 19,000 jobs by 2034?An aging population, breakthrough therapeutics, and a push to reshore production are fueling major growth in domestic pharma manufacturing. While dat...
FDA Priorities for Advancing Food Safety in 2026: ProFood World
What does it take for food manufacturers to move beyond checking regulatory boxes and into a fully data-driven food safety program?This episode breaks down FDA's 2026 priorities under its reorganized Human Foods Program, from tighter scr...
Sustainable Packaging Trends at Pack EXPO 2025: Packaging World
What if sustainable packaging no longer meant giving something up—no slower lines, no sacrificed shelf life, no compromise?Editor-in-Chief Matt Reynolds and Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan preview the sustainability, materials, and equipm...
How User Experience Drives Better Cancer Diagnostics: Healthcare Packaging
What if the best healthcare packaging is the packaging no one notices?Editor-in-Chief Liz Cuneo sits down with Melissa Carter, Principal Director of Service Innovation at Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, to discuss the process of designing sam...
Smarter Pumps, Safer Food: ProFood World
Most pump damage doesn't happen while the pump is running. So where does it happen—and what does that mean for how a pump should be designed?Advances in hygienic pump designs are helping food and beverage processors improve sanitation, r...
Why Deoleo Bottled its Olive Oil in Blue: Packaging World
Green has signaled olive oil on shelf for generations. So why did Deoleo put its extra virgin in a blue bottle?Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan sits down with Daniele Pucchi, Global R&D Packaging Manager for global olive oil producer D...
How AI Vision Inspection Transforms Pharma Packaging Operational Efficiency: Healthcare Packaging
Why do rule-based inspection systems keep flagging perfectly good pharmaceutical packages as defective?AI-based vision inspection is replacing rigid, rule-based systems on pharma packaging lines, cutting false rejects by learning to tell...
How Ammonia, CO₂, and Nitrogen Are Reshaping Food & Beverage Cooling: ProFood World
Why are more food and beverage processors mixing refrigerants instead of picking just one?As food processors rethink cooling from the ground up, ammonia, CO₂, and nitrogen technologies are each carving out distinct roles in faster, smart...
How Nestlé turned Vital Proteins' Blue Tub into a Paper Canister
What does it take to move a bestselling supplement out of plastic and into paper, without consumers thinking they got a counterfeit?Senior editor Anne Marie Mohan talks with Eric Bell, principal packaging scientist at Nestlé, about the t...
Dissolving Packaging that Keeps the OR Clean: Healthcare Packaging
What does it take to make medical waste disposal safer, faster, and completely mess-free?Editor-in-Chief Liz Cuneo talks with Ashleigh Hotz of SmartSolv and Victoria Robinson of Safetec about the water-soluble, biodegradable packaging be...
Scaling Innovation with State Ingredient Bans Lurking: ProFood World
How can food manufacturers scale innovation and reformulation efforts when a growing patchwork of state-level ingredient bans is reshaping what they can put on shelves?Food manufacturers are using digital twin technology, artificial inte...
How Kenvue is Turning Sustainability into a Real-time Design Decision: Packaging World
What happens when sustainability moves from a late-stage checkbox to a live decision-making tool?Senior editor Anne Marie Mohan talks with Gayatri Keskar, global packaging material science leader at Kenvue, about the company's sustainabi...
Clinical Trials and Smart Packaging Close the Knowledge Gap: Healthcare Packaging
How can pharmaceutical packaging help researchers tell whether a drug failed or a patient just missed a dose?Sensor-embedded blister packs, NFC chips, and RFID tags are giving clinical trial researchers objective, time-stamped data on wh...
Lean Principles in the Machine Learning Era: ProFood World
What happens when decades-old lean manufacturing principles collide with today's machine learning push in food and beverage plants?Industry experts break down why data standardization, not model-building, is the real bottleneck to AI-dri...