Packaging Perspectives Podcast

Packaging Perspectives Podcast

Welcome to Packaging Perspectives podcasts. You’re a reader of the Packaging Group brand magazines; now become a listener. The Packaging Perspectives channel provides you with industry news, innovations and engaging interviews that keep you up-to-date, informed, and entertained. Each episode features expert packaging professionals interviewed by editors of the Packaging Group. Scroll down and click an episode to listen. It will automatically begin in the player below. |

Episodes

Nitrocellulose: Balancing Performance and Sustainability in Packaging Inks and Coatings

July 9, 2025 • 7 mins
There’s been a lot of buzz in the industry about nitrocellulose. An essential component in most solvent-based ink and coating formulations, this binder resin is recognized for offering ink manufacturers excellent formulation, printing, and application. But it also comes with a sustainability challenge. Packaging Strategies sat down with Dr. Nikola Juhasz, who holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. and has spent ...
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Achieving Sustainability in Pet Food Packaging

May 2, 2025 • 12 mins
In this interview, we talk to Matias Blanco of Tetra Pak about some of the advantages of the company’s Tetra Recart® when it comes to pet food packaging. (Image courtesy of Tetra Pak)
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New Developments in Molded Fiber Packaging

April 3, 2025 • 12 mins
Packaging Strategies recently sat down Eldon Schaffer, CEO of TekniPlex Consumer Products, to discuss the company’s role in the evolution of molded fiber packaging solutions. (Image courtesy of TekniPlex)
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The Evolution of Molded Fiber Packaging

March 3, 2025 • 15 mins
With bans on PFAS and polystyrene popping up across the packaging landscape, Bill Kuecker and Emily Parsons of Solenis explain how a new generation of molded fiber is responding to the call for sustainable packaging options that also offer high performance. (Images courtesy of Solenis)
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Showcasing the Food Solutions & Exchange Conference 2025

February 28, 2025 • 5 mins
BNP Media Group Publisher Doug Peckenpaugh sits down with Erik Brainard, President & CEO of Anritsu Infivus Inc and Vice President of the Food Production Solutions Association Board of Directors, as they discuss the upcoming Food Solutions Exchange & Conference 2025. The event will take place March 19-21 at Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix, AZ. ⮞ Watch a video of this interview
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Trends in Secondary and End-of-Line Packaging

February 24, 2025 • 22 mins
As someone who heads the U.S. operations of Germany’s SOMIC, Peter Fox is intimately familiar with the different approaches that North America and Europe take to secondary and end-of-line packaging. In this interview, Fox shares those insights as well as what he sees as overarching trends in packaging. Image courtesy of SOMIC
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Award-Winning Brand Redesign: Smirnoff Ice

January 17, 2025 • 12 mins
Brett Parker recently sat down with Shang Wu, Client Director, and Nei Valente, Creative Director, for Design Bridge & Partners to discuss their redesign campaign for Smirnoff Ice, which earned them a 2024 Designalytics Effectiveness Award. Wu and Valente explain recent changes in the beverage and alcohol space that influenced the redesign, the positive consumer feedback they received on the campaign, and lessons from ...
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The Role of Data in Packaging Sustainability

January 9, 2025 • 20 mins
Packaging Strategies recently sat down Gillian Garside-Wight, Director of Consulting at Aura, to discuss the role of data in packaging sustainability.
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Showcasing Nefab’s Sustainability Packaging Design Competition

November 27, 2024 • 8 mins
In this podcast, we highlight Nefab's second Sustainability Packaging Design Competition, held in collaboration with San José State University (SJSU). This year, SJSU’s Packaging Degree students were tasked with creating sustainable packaging solutions for Cloud Network Routers, vital to cloud networking. Derek Lam, Senior Designer at Nefab, and the winning team—Bea Nguyen, Yvonne Nguyen, and Yaoyao Li—discuss the competit...
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Trends in Inks and Coatings for Sustainable Paper Packaging

November 7, 2024 • 11 mins
While paper packaging in many ways is more naturally eco-friendly than plastic packaging, Sun Chemical is busy developing inks and coatings solutions to ensure that true recyclability is achieved as the ‘paperization’ trend gains steam. Sponsored by
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Navigating the Complexities of Molded Fiber

October 23, 2024 • 23 mins
In this interview, Palouse Fiber Packaging CEO Kyler Lovgren explains how molded fiber could help businesses remain compliant as a patchwork of state-level packaging regulations crop up.
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Conveyor Belting Needs in the Face of Industry 5.0

October 17, 2024 • 10 mins
In this interview, Niels van den Boogert and Bobby Bauman of AMMEGA discuss CPG firms’ evolving conveyor needs as warehouses and distribution centers become increasingly automated.
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Quantitative Consumer Testing in the CPG Sector

September 19, 2024 • 26 mins
Sean Bisceglia, CEO of Product Ventures, says the traditional focus group of 25 or 50 people is not sufficient when it comes to deciding whether to pour millions of dollars into launching a new product.
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Rethinking Wine Packaging

August 26, 2024 • 11 mins
In this interview, Marian Leitner-Waldman of Archer Roose explains the many advantages of canned packaging for wine.
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The Versatility of BOPP in Beer Packaging

August 21, 2024 • 7 mins
In this interview, Stout Collective’s Matt Tanaka explains the inspiration behind the BOPP Beer and Design Conference, now in its third year.
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The Resurgence of RFID Technology

August 13, 2024 • 6 mins
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology has been around for decades – so why is it making a resurgence now? To explore this, we recently sat down with Jay Parks, Senior Vice President, Operations, Packaging and Labels, at R.R. Donnelley.
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Sustainable Solutions Designed to Enable Recycling

August 2, 2024 • 14 mins
Sun Chemical’s Nikola Juhasz and Dennis Sweet explain how the company considers sustainability and circularity in all of its product development activities, including in its solutions for the narrow web, tag and label market. Sponsored by Sun Chemical
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Compostable Popcorn Packaging

June 25, 2024 • 7 mins
Joseph Zeppilli, Co-Founder of Bad Monkey Popcorn, talks about the company’s journey toward creating viable compostable packaging for one of the world’s most popular snack foods.
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Fresh-Lock’s Award-Winning Flexible Packaging for Laundry Detergent Pacs

May 20, 2024 • 16 mins
Packaging Strategies recently sat down with Natalie Kaczorowski, Fresh-Lock® Business Development Manager, and Todd Meussling, Fresh-Lock® Senior Manager of Market Development, to discuss the company’s development of the award-winning Costco Kirkland Signature® Ultra Clean Premium Laundry Detergent Pacs. 
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The Role of Inks, Coatings & Adhesives in Sustainable Packaging

May 15, 2024 • 12 mins
In this interview, two experts at Sun Chemical discuss the evolution and commercial breakthroughs of inks, coatings and adhesives and how they are helping the flexible packaging sector achieve sustainability. Sponsored by Sun Chemical
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