Greif, Inc. Announces a $60 Per Ton Price Increase on All Uncoated Recycled Paperboard (URB) Grades and a minimum 7% Increase on Tube and Core and Protective Packaging Products

In today's world, it has become increasingly important not only to make sure that your brand is standing out from the competition but that you are delivering a seamless and integrated experience across all channels. To meet this demand, brands must find ways to provide an omnichannel approach that puts the customer at the center of every interaction. When it comes to retail packaging, this means providing an experience that resonates with the customer and sets your brand apart from the competition. Let’s look at omnichannel packaging and how you can use it to create a consistent brand experience for your customers. What is omnichannel packaging? The omnichannel experience is a retail strategy focusing on a consistent experience across every channel your customers use to interact with your brand.

Kotkamills’ family of AEGLE® consumer boards is complemented by the freshest member of the family. AEGLE® Barrier Plus promotes the wider use of non-plastic packaging solutions. Easily recyclable AEGLE® Barrier Plus packaging board is especially suited for packaging greasy food, sandwiches, bakery products and frozen foods. The packaging industry is one of the key players in preventing litter ending up in the oceans and nature. Traditionally, packaging industry uses plastic barrier layer on packaging board in order to prevent grease and fluids from absorbing into the packaging material. Alternatively, organic fluorochemicals can be used as grease barriers but they might be harmful for the health. Degradation of plastic can take up to hundreds of years in natural conditions which means they are a burden for the environment for a long time, even ending up in the food chain. Click Read More below for additional information.

Sonoco announced it is increasing prices for all rigid paper containers and closures sold in North America by 9.5 percent, effective with shipments on, and after, June 3 , 2021. According to Ernest Haynes, Division Vice President and General Manager, Rigid Paper and Closures, North America, this price increase is necessary to recover rapidly rising costs for key raw materials used to produce rigid paper containers and closures. “Due to the rising inflationary cost of adhesives, laminate structures, recovered paper and steel, we are experiencing input cost pressures that simply cannot be absorbed,” Haynes said. “These inflationary cost increases have been compounded by the after-effects of Winter Storm Uri on the adhesives industry along with incredible demand in the steel marketplace."