Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Robinson Fresh has launched a consumer brand.

While packaging costs continue to rise, innovation is tamping them down, at least somewhat, produce marketers and packaging manufacturers say.

The rapidly evolving online grocery delivery channel will have a say in packaging styles and materials over the near and long terms, marketers say.

The packaging industry has an important teaching mission, in terms of recycling its products, marketers say.

Produce suppliers are working with packaging manufacturers to limit the excess materials that wind up in the waste stream.

Mission Produce, Oxnard, Calif., is launching Mission Jumbos, a pack of larger avocados that addresses the trend of consumers including more avocados in their diets.

Retail and consumer requests for bagged avocados have been inching upward for the past several years, but the onset of the coronavirus seems to have intensified that demand, grower-shippers say.

Duravant LLC announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Packaging Solutions.

A network of Eco-certified orchards in the Northeast is taking their commitment to environmentally progressive practices to a new level with the introduction of an innovative eco-friendly apple package. 

Smurfit Kappa announced new targets to further reduce its fossil CO2 emissions, including its ambition to reach at least net zero emissions by 2050.