Coronavirus pandemic has affected the way people shop, go out and socialize. It has also been a testing time for most industries out there. During this time, packaging has emerged as a key player in ensuring the safe delivery of products, including foods and household items, to customers all around the world.

More time to discuss packaging issues

With the world’s largest packaging show, Interpack, postponed, you may wonder if you can get information on what’s new in the packaging world. Many other packaging-related events have also been canceled or postponed. However, there is no restriction on discussing packaging issues online. Since people have got to see more packages during the pandemic period, and accessibility to the internet and social media makes it easy to convey every concern in this regard, it is quite fruitful to discuss every packaging-related matter with experts available online. Furthermore, virtual events remain the best sources of information on packaging supplies.

Reinstating domestic pharmaceutical production

The pandemic has revealed the US’s reliance on China for the manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and many critical medicines. CPhl Worldwide has been highlighting this issue over the years. The FiercePharma states that FDA doesn’t even know how much the US depends on other counties in this regard.

John R. Henry, the packaging machinery wizard at Changeover.com, reminds the US about its ability to meet pharmaceutical manufacturing goals through an already-existing infrastructure and talent available.

Keeping ethics in business

Prices rise during a crisis. Although they shouldn’t, they do anyway. QuickPouch, a form-fill machinery manufacturer, announced that it would make an effort to support customers who have been on the frontline to facilitate COVID patients. The company will do so by waiving any additional fees.

These efforts truly make a brand more ethical. Helping people who have been putting their lives at risk to save others’ lives is one of the best initiatives. It’s certainly a suit other companies should follow.

Using hygienic packaging

Since the topic of sustainability has been discussed for quite too long, its benefits have achieved the level of no-brainer concepts in the packaging industry. The way reusable packaging has helped reduce packaging wastes is an example of determination towards achieving the impossible. Combining recyclability and sustainability has helped the packaging industry become an active contributor in making the world a better place.

However, single-use packaging, despite all the hatred towards it, has some considerable benefits to offer. More of these benefits are needed now more than ever. From the sanitary point of view, single-use packaging may prove to have an edge over reusable packaging materials. Reusable packaging can get contaminated, leading to an increased risk of COVID-19 virus transmission. Single-use packaging, on the other hand, doesn’t come contaminated. You have to remove the product from it and throw it away. Nobody will get to touch it afterward. That’s what makes single-use packaging a more considerable option during the pandemic. Nonetheless, packaging experts are making efforts to create reusable packaging solutions that could remain clean and uncontaminated after the first use.