ICPG Food Packaging

ICPG Food Packaging ICPG is a producer of innovative material solutions for rigid thermoformed and form-fill-seal food packaging applications.

World Environment Day is coming up 🌍Real progress in sustainable packaging is about more than just better materials. It’...
06/03/2026

World Environment Day is coming up 🌍

Real progress in sustainable packaging is about more than just better materials. It’s about creating systems that actually work in the real world.

At ICPG, we believe recyclability needs to be practical, not just theoretical. If a material can’t move through collection, sorting, and reprocessing at scale, it’s not truly functioning as recyclable.

That’s why everything we do, from XPP’s mono-material structure to our work with brands on circularity, is focused on making sustainability realistic and achievable.

🌱 Learn more about our approach to sustainable packaging:
https://hubs.ly/Q04h-PZJ0

We’re officially halfway through 2026.If your packaging team set sustainability goals at the start of the year, now is a...
06/01/2026

We’re officially halfway through 2026.

If your packaging team set sustainability goals at the start of the year, now is a good time to take a step back and ask: where do we actually stand?

Regulations are getting stricter, recyclability expectations continue to grow, and material testing, trials, and approvals always take longer than expected. By the time Q3 arrives, the groundwork often needed to make changes should already be underway.

Whether your goals include:

✔️ Replacing PS in FFS applications
✔️ Improving recyclability metrics
✔️ Reducing material costs
✔️ Meeting 2026 and beyond sustainability targets

The timeline to make meaningful progress is shorter than it seems.

The second half of the year starts now.

If sustainable packaging is still part of your 2026 roadmap, this guide breaks down what’s realistic, what to evaluate, and what it actually takes to implement change:

👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04h-Ycc0

This Memorial Day, all of us at ICPG pause to honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice...
05/27/2026

This Memorial Day, all of us at ICPG pause to honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. 🇺🇸

We wish our customers, partners, and community a safe and meaningful holiday weekend spent with family, friends, and loved ones.

Happy Memorial Day from the ICPG team.

In packaging design, there is rarely a perfect solution.Every decision is a balancing act between sustainability, cost, ...
05/25/2026

In packaging design, there is rarely a perfect solution.

Every decision is a balancing act between sustainability, cost, performance, and shelf life.

Improve recyclability, and processing may change.
Reduce material weight, and stiffness may shift.
Extend shelf life, and cost can rise.
Lower cost, and sustainability goals become harder to meet.

The reality is that the best packaging decisions don’t come from maximizing one variable—they come from finding the right balance point across the full system.

In our latest blog, we explore how engineers can reduce these conflicts earlier in development by evaluating:
✔️ Sustainability vs performance
✔️ Cost vs circularity
✔️ Shelf life vs recyclability
✔️ Innovation vs operational risk

The teams that manage these tradeoffs best are the ones building real competitive advantage.

📘 Read the full blog: https://hubs.ly/Q04hDZY50

05/20/2026

🎙️ A new episode of the Crazy About Packaging Podcast is out!

This month, Natalie and Jonathan sit down with Joe Castagneri, Director of Software at AMP, to discuss how AI-powered recycling systems are improving recovery rates and helping the industry move sustainability goals forward faster.

In this episode, Joe shares a powerful real-world example from Virginia, where AMP’s diversion facilities are processing more than 25 tons per hour of mixed waste and increasing regional recycling rates from 8% to 20%.

What makes this so impactful is that it helps recover recyclable materials without asking consumers to do anything differently.

As Natalie points out in the conversation, there’s only so much behavior change we can realistically expect—especially when confusion around materials, symbols, and local recycling rules often leads people to simply throw items away.

By using AI to pull recyclables directly from the trash stream, the industry has an opportunity to increase material recovery, reduce landfill dependence, and accelerate sustainability outcomes at scale.

Sometimes the fastest way to move the needle is to improve the system—not ask more from the consumer.

🎧 Listen to the full episode to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04fsQYX0

05/18/2026

🎙️ A new episode of the Crazy About Packaging Podcast is out!

This month, Natalie and Jonathan sit down with Joe Castagneri, Director of Software at AMP, to discuss how AI-powered sortation is increasing recovery rates, reducing landfill dependency, and reshaping the future of recycling infrastructure.

In this episode, Joe shares where he sees AI having the biggest impact on recycling today and into the future:
not just improving what gets sorted in traditional recycling streams, but recovering value directly from the trash stream itself.

He highlights AMP’s work with SPSA in Virginia, where diversion facilities are being built to process municipal solid waste and dramatically reduce how much material ultimately reaches landfill.

The implications are massive:
✔️ Slowing landfill fill rates
✔️ Reducing methane emissions
✔️ Recovering recyclables that never made it into the bin
✔️ Helping municipalities avoid skyrocketing waste transport costs

Joe paints a compelling picture of how AI can help solve one of the industry’s biggest challenges—making sure only a fraction of what enters the waste stream actually ends up in landfill.

🎧 Listen to the full episode to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04fsLhX0

05/15/2026

🎙️ A new episode of the Crazy About Packaging Podcast is out!

This month, Natalie and Jonathan sit down with Joe Castagneri, Director of Software at AMP, to explore how AI-powered sortation is improving recycling systems, increasing recovery rates, and reshaping the future of waste management.

Most people today are familiar with AI through large language models and chat-based tools.

But in this episode, Joe explains what AI looks like in a recycling environment—and why it’s fundamentally different.

At AMP, the focus is on computer vision models trained on millions of real-world waste stream images.

Instead of predicting the next word, these models are trained to answer:
Where is the PET bottle? Where is the cardboard? Where is the aluminum can?

Joe breaks down how the same underlying math and training principles apply, but at a completely different scale—using smaller, more energy-efficient models purpose-built for material recognition and robotic sortation.

It’s a fascinating look at how AI moves beyond chatbots and into real industrial infrastructure with measurable sustainability outcomes.

🎧 Listen to the full episode to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04fsg5t0

AI is changing recycling—but not in the way most people think.It’s not just automation—it’s accuracy, efficiency, and fi...
05/13/2026

AI is changing recycling—but not in the way most people think.

It’s not just automation—it’s accuracy, efficiency, and finally tackling contamination at scale.

Listen in as the C.A.P. Pack breaks down what this means for the future of packaging and find out more in our sneak peak: https://bit.ly/4ncVNbp

05/12/2026

🎙️ A new episode of the Crazy About Packaging Podcast is out!

This month, Natalie and Jonathan sit down with Joe Castagneri, Director of Software at AMP, to discuss how AI-powered sortation is transforming recycling systems, increasing recovery rates, and redefining what’s possible in waste and materials management.

In this episode, Joe shares how AMP evolved from retrofit robots that could replace the work of multiple human sorters into designing entire AI-powered recycling facilities.

Their first systems were built to drop into existing recycling lines, using computer vision, material recognition, and robotic software to sort at speeds far beyond manual labor.

But the bigger breakthrough came when the team started asking:
What happens when AI isn’t just one robot in one part of the line—but the intelligence layer across the entire facility?

That shift led AMP to design lower-cost, higher-recovery recycling and diversion facilities that can pull valuable recyclables directly out of the trash stream—showing how AI can fundamentally improve efficiency across an entire industry.

🎧 Listen to the full episode to learn more: https://bit.ly/4uaYAEZ

Sustainability goals shouldn’t force food brands to compromise on performance, processability, or cost.That’s why more t...
05/11/2026

Sustainability goals shouldn’t force food brands to compromise on performance, processability, or cost.

That’s why more teams are exploring XPP polypropylene solutions as a smarter alternative to traditional rigid plastics like PS and PET.

With XPP, brands can improve:
✔️ Recyclability
✔️ Material efficiency
✔️ Packaging performance
✔️ Equipment compatibility
✔️ Total cost of ownership ()

The result is a more practical path toward sustainability targets without sacrificing what matters most in production and shelf performance.

📘 Download the XPP Sustainability Fact Sheet to explore how XPP compares to traditional rigid plastic materials: https://hubs.ly/Q04fssmh0

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