AI-enabled maintenance, automated right-sizing, and smarter robotics are giving packaging and fulfillment teams practical levers to cut cost per unit shipped, while EU packaging-waste rules add a compliance reason to right-size sooner rather than later.

Plastic packaging innovation is evolving beyond simply creating a new bottle or container.

In packaging development, the journey from an initial concept to a market-ready product can be both time-consuming and expensive.

The 1990s rarely get credit as a turning point in packaging history, overshadowed by the plastics boom of the postwar decades and the sustainability wave of the 2020s.