NEW EVENT! Cutting-edge Trends for Food Products at PACK EXPO Southeast
Discover all the latest packaging & processing solutions for food products at the all-new PACK EXPO Southeast in Atlanta, GA, March 10-12, 2025

Anne Marie Mohan

Anne Marie Mohan HeadshotAnne Marie Mohan is Senior Editor of Packaging World magazine, where she focuses extensively on sustainability and package design, in addition to packaging machinery applications. She has been with the company since 2007 and has 20+ years of experience reporting on packaging. Before joining PMMI Media Group, she held top editorial positions with several other industry-leading trade publications in the flat glass and commercial printing industries. Mohan is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Processing Equipment
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 Innovations Report
The trade show featured cutting-edge technologies and solutions to help processors take their operations to the next level.
February 17, 2020
PACK EXPO Las Vegas Entrance
Beverage
FIJI Water Unveils Multifaceted Plan to Reduce its Use of Plastic
Initiatives include the use of 100% recycled plastic in all its water bottles by 2025 and the introduction of 2.5- and 5-gal containers that will reduce its use of plastic by up to 76%.
October 25, 2019
As an alternative to single-use bottles, FIJI Water will introduce a new 2.5-gal container for the refrigerator or counter.
Food Ingredients
Inverted Pouch for BBQ Sauce a First for the Category
Responding to a survey on consumers’ pain points around BBQ sauce, Uncle Dougie’s introduces a new line of Organics in the STANDCAP pouch, eliminating messy closures and product waste.
October 25, 2019
The inverted squeeze pouch makes it easier for consumers to add to their favorite meal.
Beverage
Booklet-style Beer Label Provides Comic Relief
Available in Italy, Comic Beer features three comic strips by acclaimed Spanish illustrator Alberto Madrigal that are secured to a trio of beers via a booklet-style accordion label.
October 25, 2019
The booklet-style label is approximately 39 in. and includes 16 panels (front and back).
Beverage
The Dos and Don’ts of Beer Packaging
Troy Wade, co-founder and Strategy Director of brand design firm Brown&co, shares some of the biggest mistakes both heritage and craft beer brands make in designing their packaging and offers insight how to better appeal to consumers.
October 25, 2019
Troy Wade, Co-Founder & Strategy Director, Brown&co
Home
Smart Packaging: ‘A Tale of Two Technologies’
A presentation at SmartPack 2019 delves into the current status, forecast, and drivers of the two categories of technology—smart and active—that make up smart packaging.
October 25, 2019
Duane Niedert, Director of Operations – Americas for Smithers
Food Ingredients
Produce Company Sticks with Proven Metal Detectors for New Plant
Happy with the metal detectors at its first two plants, F&S Produce installs six additional ones at its new plant that provide dependability, washdown capability, and high sensitivity to metal contaminants.
October 4, 2019
All products are sent through the metal detector as the final step before secondary packaging.
Robotics
‘Safe-tea’ palletizing of capsules at Nestlé
Manual palletizing at Nestle’s Swiss facility producing tea capsules is replaced with two user-friendly collaborative robot palletizers custom-designed to ensure pallet stability and worker safety.
October 4, 2019
A collaborative robot palletizer accurately places the light, long, and narrow cases of tea capsules in a tight configuration.
Sustainability
Dasani Uncaps a Record Number of More-sustainable Packaging Options
Among them, a bottle using rPET with plant-based plastic, two new aluminum package formats, a lighter-weight PET bottle, and a package-less, customizable water dispensing system.
October 4, 2019
New packaging includes the HybridBottle, an aluminum bottle, and an aluminum can in two sizes.
Sustainability
7 Trends Affecting the Rigid Plastic Packaging Market
Among the trends are some that will provide new opportunities for the rigid plastic packaging market and some that will present challenges to its growth.
October 4, 2019
A new report forecasts rigid plastic packaging sales will grow from 4.2% per year during 2019 to 2024.
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