Happenings from the Hub 2020

Here is how shipping and fulfilment strategy can impact corporate social responsibility, product value, and brand loyalty.

Your recycled packaging may actually end up in a landfill. Here are tips to ensure your trash goes to the right place.

Millennials spend more on eco-friendly products than anyone else. Here’s how to use sustainable packaging to capture their loyalty.

Check out three eco-friendly packaging options to ensure even the most delicate items travel safely and remain intact.

The rapid surge in e-commerce sales has led to an increase in package waste. These brands are incorporating sustainable packaging into their fulfilment processes.

When it comes to oversized package shipping, insufficient packaging can damage products and reputations — costing more in the long run.

The most efficient distribution centres have a secret weapon — and it’s not something you can buy: people make a significant difference in the overall productivity and success of a business. They’re the most valuable resource any company has on their floor, so every decision needs to be made to support and protect them.

Companies have numerous options when it comes to answering the sustainability call. But sometimes it helps to get back to basics, particularly as the new school year begins. Approach learning the world of sustainability as a child would master learning their ABCs. Who knows — maybe you’ll discover a few new ideas to include in your company’s efforts, too.

The unboxing experience provides companies with an opportunity to create a memorable moment for consumers. Here’s how to let brand values — including sustainability — take center stage.

When the pandemic struck, much of everyday life shifted online — including healthcare. Though 87 percent of doctors already viewed telehealth as an advantage in treating patients, virtual visits surged under stay at home orders.

Now more than ever, consumers care about sustainability. As shoppers demand products that are better for the environment, retailers can’t help but take notice. In fact, the consumer packaged goods industry has already started to reap the rewards.

When employees work closely together, viruses can spread. Here’s how to keep them healthy in an e-commerce logistics environment.

The increase in e-commerce, combined with the types of purchases consumers are making, will change e-commerce fulfilment in new ways.

COVID-19 has created new pressures and challenges for the distribution center. Here’s a rundown of four big changes to operations.

There’s no easy answer to how to become more sustainable. But in fulfillment, taking a page from children’s literature can help.

In this new era of social distancing and virtual connections, is experiential marketing going to be redefined? Marketers and brand owners have been mastering the art of connecting with customers remotely for a while now as people shifted to the convenience of online shopping for direct-to-home delivery.

Pregis, a leading manufacturer of protective packaging, develops a method to measure the environmental impact of products damaged in transit.

The coronavirus pandemic has put ecommerce fulfillment centres in a challenging situation. Online orders, which had already been growing at a steady clip, are now surging as people stay at home and avoid trips to brick-and-mortar retail stores. But health experts continue to recommend social distancing, which makes operating fully staffed facilities and adding more workers risky propositions for businesses.

People around the world have probably never felt so connected or united with one another as they do now. While millions of families adapt to working at home and finding new ways to entertain and comfort one another, millions more are working day and night to provide critical health and scientific services, as well as delivering vital food, and commercial and domestic supplies – each and every one of us are grateful beyond words.

For high-volume shippers, one key to success is identifying the line between tight packaging and inadequate protection—and staying on the right side of it.

Trees – where would we be today without them? Trees provide us with food, medicine, infrastructure and even serve as Mother Nature’s air filters. And as we know, they also produce paper – a luxury that we often forget about. The fact of the matter is, paper is as important today as it was when it originated back in the first century.

Pregis LLC, a leading protective packaging materials and automated systems manufacturer, has received an additional Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) Chain of Custody, FSC Recycled certification for its Easypack paper portfolio.

Pregis, a leading protective packaging materials and automated systems manufacturer, has received an International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC PLUS) for air cushioning produced in its Heerlen, The Netherlands, facility.

Over the last decade, there’s been growing momentum of environmental campaigns that have made us all more aware of the damage that packaging waste is having on the planet. This movement has led to a shift in consumer demand and far greater scrutiny of how goods are made, how they are packaged and how they are shipped – people want to ensure that there’s minimal impact on the environment.

Pregis has acquired So.Pr.Ad. SRL (Soprad), Milan, Italy, a global provider of temporary protective films.

Protective packaging specialists, Pregis, a leading protective packaging materials and automated systems manufacturer, has joined Circular Economy Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX), a European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire flexible packaging value chain.

In the world of ecommerce order fulfillment, “close enough” won’t cut it. Shippers don’t get any credit for bringing a package close to a customer’s doorstep—it has to actually land there, and quickly.

Warehouse managers’ jobs are tough: managing and motivating a large workforce with an historically high turnover rate, keeping them confident and informed, then figuring out how to staff up seasonally without throttling throughput.

Protective packaging specialists, Pregis, has made several recent investments in its European operations to support the growing protective packaging needs of its broad global customer base.

Any business with a conveyor system will know how vital it is to achieving and maintaining warehouse efficiency. Factory automation solutions are designed to keep goods moving, minimise intervention and keep costs to a minimum.

Acquiring new customers is expensive, which is why so many companies are focused on increasing the lifetime value of the customers that they already have. And although the internet has conditioned today’s shoppers to shop around, research shows that they’ll stick with brands that support causes that are important to them – like sustainability.

Consumers want businesses to play an active role in driving social and environmental change. From socks and white goods to coffee and toys, eight companies did an exceptional job of building social responsibility into their core mission.