Through the Line: Packaging and Processing

Where do you shelve a carbonated, dairy-free coffee? Not with the energy drinks, and not with the canned lattes. This episode digs into how Indian brand Black Poetry and consultancy OPEN Strategy & Design solved that problem on the can itself, using a design concept called beautiful vandalism that splits classical portraiture from street-art graffiti with a ragged torn-paper edge. Along the way: why abstract disruption communicates carbonation better than literal bubbles, how a rigid info...

PMMI Media Group’s chief editors are joined by Packaging World senior editor Anne Marie Mohan to discuss what producers are scrambling to figure out before SB 54’s January deadline, why return-on-the-go reuse is suddenly everywhere, and what’s happened to U.S. PET recycling capacity.

What do pharmaceutical manufacturers actually need from packaging equipment now that speed alone isn't the answer? Editors Sean Riley and Liz Cuneo sit down to discuss key findings from the 2026 Pharmaceutical Innovations Report. They provide insight into how automated changeover, connected equipment, and patient-centric design are reshaping what a high-performance pharma line looks like. Read the full Innovations Report on Healthcare Packaging.

What makes a food plant a faster payday for an attacker than a bank? Kristin King, founder of AnzenSage and author of Securing What Feeds Us: Cybersecurity in Food and Agriculture, sits down with Editor-in-Chief Derek Teal to explain why food and beverage manufacturers get targeted, biological processes that can't be paused, and enormous pressure to restore uptime fast. She walks through what she actually looks for on a plant floor, why she calls IT/OT convergence a marketing ploy, how to kee...

What happens when the layer that made flexible packaging easy to seal is the same layer recyclability requires you to remove? Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan and Chief Editor Matt Reynolds preview the flexible packaging innovations heading to PACK EXPO International. Reynolds breaks down how mono-material films have narrowed the sealing window until the temperature that seals sits close to the temperature that destroys, which machinery answers are emerging from new jaw motions to ultrasonic se...