About this podcast
This podcast explores innovations and information across the packaging and processing landscape, from topics impacting consumer packaged goods and healthcare packaging, to the latest technologies in food processing operations. Join us for the latest insights, trends, and strategies shaping packaging and processing today.
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Content hosted by Packaging World, ProFood World, and Healthcare Packaging.
Episodes
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- USPP Drops EPS Transport Packaging from Problematic Materials List: Healthcare Packaging · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 137Materials don't usually come off a problematic list. So how did EPS transport packaging become the first one to manage it? This episode unpacks the US Plastics Pact's decision to…
- OEE Is a Smoke Detector, Not a Scoreboard: ProFood World · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 136If a plant is reporting OEE above 100% while living with daily downtime and weekly quality losses, what exactly is that number measuring? This episode argumes that OEE has become…
- Icey Hot Puts Scent in the Varnish, Not on a Sticker: Packaging World · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 135How do you put a fragrance on a carton when the embossing die applies exactly the kind of pressure designed to release it? This episode breaks down a Packaging World interview…
- PACK EXPO Recap—AI Puts Data to Work and GLP-1s Ripple Through Packaging: End of the Line · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 134What happens when all that plant-floor data finally becomes useful? After a long week in Chicago, the End of the Line crew unpacks the biggest themes from PACK EXPO. Chief…
- Live from PACK EXPO—AI inspection, smarter closures, and GLP-1 cold chain: Healthcare Packaging · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 133Pharma packaging works under stricter rules than almost anything else on the show floor. So why does so much of what’s built for it end up in food and beverage? Editor-in-chief…
- Live from PACK EXPO—Actionable Data, Fenceless Cobot Safety, and the Humanoids That Didn’t Show: ProFood World · 15 min · Season 2 Episode 132Everyone agreed the industry needed more data. What happens when the machines start telling you what to do with it? Derrick Teal and Casey Flanagan report from day two of PACK…
- Live From PACK EXPO—Dry-Formed Fiber, Square Yogurt Cups, and a Printer Fast Enough for Sunrise 2027: Packaging World · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 131What does a trend look like once it’s a machine on a show floor? Matt Reynolds and Anne Marie Mohan sit down on day one of PACK EXPO International with what they found in the…
- Humanoid Robots, a Manufacturing Boom, and a Fresh Look at Plastic Bottle Production: End of the Line · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 130PMMI Media Group’s chief editors, Matt Reynolds, Derrick Teal, Liz Cuneo are joined by ProFood World associate editor Casey Flanagan to discuss whether humanoid robots should…
- Why Supply Chain Confidence and Supply Chain Visibility Aren't the Same Thing: Healthcare Packaging · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 129Knowing a pallet of medicine sits in a warehouse in Chicago isn't the same as knowing it's still good. So what counts as visibility? Supply chain professionals report real…
- Inspection and Detection Trends at PACK EXPO 2025: ProFood World · 14 min · Season 2 Episode 128What's the difference between a machine that actually learns and a machine with an AI label on it? Editor-in-Chief, Derek Teal and Casey Flanagan, Associate Editor, preview the…
- Beautiful Vandalism, and the Problem of a Product With No Shelf: Packaging World · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 127Where 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…
- SB 54’s First Deadline, Refillable Wine Bottles, and PET’s Recycling Problem: End of the Line · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 126PMMI 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…
- Pharmaceutical Trends at PACK EXPO 2025: Healthcare Packaging · 15 min · Season 2 Episode 125What 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…
- Cybersecurity is Part of Food Safety Now: ProFood World · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 124What 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…
- Flexible Packaging Trends at PACK EXPO 2025: Packaging World · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 123What 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…
- Packaging as Public Health Policy, Cybersecurity on the Line, and SKU Complexity: End of the Line · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 122PMMI Media Group's chief editors, Liz Cuneo, Derrick Teal, Matt Reynolds, and Sean Riley sit down to discuss why healthcare material changes take years, what happens to a…
- Medical Device Trends at PACK EXPO 2025: Healthcare Packaging · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 121What problems is the medical device industry actually trying to solve and what should manufacturers be preparing for next? Liz Cuneo, Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Packaging, and…
- The Human Core of Operational Agility: ProFood World · 12 min · Season 2 Episode 120What happens when a plant full of flexible equipment hits a problem no one on the line feels confident enough to solve? Scenario-based training and frontline ownership are…
- Robotics Trends PACK EXPO 2025: Packaging World · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 119What if the biggest shift in packaging robotics isn't a new capability at all, but a price tag? Chief Editor Matt Reynolds and Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan preview the robotics…
- Oregon's EPR Appeal, Lighting and Food Safety, and Smarter Inhalers: End of the Line · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 118PMMI Media Group's chief editors, Liz Cuneo, Derrick Teal, Matt Reynolds, and Sean Riley sit down to discuss why one missing screw in a light fixture can contaminate a plant, how…
