Packaging Dive directly confirmed Sonoco as the paper-can supplier for Mars’ new Cheez-It and Club cracker canisters. Separate the brand launch from the supplier confirmation and ask for SKU-specific body, closure, barrier, seal and collection evidence.
An early laboratory-handsheet project reported roughly 50% increases in both tensile strength and tensile stiffness when 20% apple pomace supplemented wood pulp. This article keeps that result at proof-of-concept scale and turns the missing feedstock, papermaking, barrier, food-contact, recyclability and line data into a pilot approval table.
A pumpkin-peel carbon quantum dot film improved mechanical, barrier and antioxidant indicators and preserved cherry tomatoes in a 25-day comparison. This article separates those findings from the migration, toxicity, converting and end-of-life evidence still needed for commercial food packaging.
Using Hansol Paper’s Protego HS launch as a trigger, this article outlines the oxygen barrier, moisture barrier, heat-sealability, line trial and recyclability documents that buyers should request before switching plastic flexible secondary packaging to paper-based alternatives.
Seaweed-based barrier coatings are emerging as a possible way to improve moisture and oxygen resistance in paper packaging. Buyers should verify barrier data, coating weight, convertibility, food-contact compliance, and recyclability before using them as a PE coating alternative.
Paper cutlery can reduce plastic use, but it only works when strength, grip, hot-food performance, coating choices, recyclability, and compostability conditions are reviewed together.
Paper tubes and cylindrical packaging are gaining attention in specialty coffee, but the decision cannot stop at a plastic-free claim. Buyers should verify the spiral-wound paperboard structure, liner and cap design, oxygen and moisture barrier needs, degassing conditions, and recyclability claims before switching.
Fully recyclable sleeves in dairy and food packaging are not just a label change. Material compatibility, sorting, EPR cost, consumer instructions, and sleeve-line validation all need to be verified together.
The UPM, Michelman and BOBST collaboration highlights a practical question for paper packaging teams: barrier paper must be evaluated through coating performance, converting conditions, food-contact evidence and recycling claims.
Gongju’s push to attract an eco-packaging food-tech research center is a useful signal for paper packaging suppliers: food packaging conversion will depend on testing, data and application support, not material claims alone.