Australians are sending a blunt signal to brands and governments: packaging waste has become a trust issue, not just a recycling issue. That matters for anyone selling food, beverage or household goods, because the pressure is now shifting from consumer sentiment to tougher packaging laws and product stewardship expectations. The latest Cleanaway research shows the … Read more
Packaging now has to do three jobs at once: protect the product, satisfy the retailer and still look premium on shelf. For FMCG brands, that makes supply reliability and verified sustainability credentials just as important as print quality. That is the commercial pitch behind Formakote packaging, which WML Paperboard positions as a locally made paperboard … Read more
Plastic coffee cans have landed the kind of publicity FMCG brands dread: they have been named Australia’s worst packaging. For grocery and café suppliers, the verdict is less about one product than about where packaging design is heading in a market that is running out of patience with hard-to-recycle formats. The award matters because it … Read more
Speed, stability and certainty are now doing more work in FMCG procurement than they did a few years ago, and packaging is one of the clearest examples. For me, the packaging supply chain shift is less about ideology and more about buyers reweighting risk after years of freight volatility, port congestion and shipping delays. That … Read more
Forty-eight tonnes of plastic removed from a single brand’s packaging line annually is the kind of number that moves a sustainability claim out of the press release and onto the shelf brief. For Finish and its parent company Reckitt, that figure now has four years of engineering behind it — and more than 55 production … Read more
Plastic prices hitting four-year highs has achieved something that years of sustainability pledges and consumer pressure could not: it has made alternative packaging commercially attractive almost overnight. For FMCG brands still weighing the cost of switching, the Iran war has effectively made that decision for them. South Korean cosmetic packaging manufacturer Yonwoo, a supplier to … Read more