As the cannabis market expands across the country in response to medical and recreational use legislation, a growing number of entrepreneurs are setting up shop. The highly regulated cannabis market poses a number of challenges that can sink a seller if they aren’t careful to comply. Regulations aren’t limited to...
The flexible packaging industry is one that needs to remain, shall we say, flexible! Shifting consumer and manufacturing trends significantly impact packaging innovation and its supply chain. These are some of the biggest commercial factors affecting flexible packaging. Sustainability and Plastics Reduction Consumers are increasingly avoiding plastics, perceiving them to be...
Soaps and detergents have long been delivered in rigid packaging, as if only hard plastics could contain the fancy liquids and gels that make water “wetter.” But there is a better way (for so many reasons): flexible packaging. Nothing makes a consumer more aware of how unwieldy traditional soap packaging is than...
Every year, hundreds of prescription drugs are approved by the FDA to go to market, and those new drugs can be protected by numerous patents—keeping the manufacturing and profitability internal to the company owning those patents. While these new medicines are launched, dozens of other drugs’ patents expire each year,...