Matt Reynolds

Simulation solutions are supercharging the Mars packaging development process with potential to cut development time by up to 40%. Also, by March 2024, the software already had reduced the quantity of plastics purchased for testing by 246 tons.

A new report makes grim reading for U.S. renters, finding only 40% make enough money to cover the median asking price for monthly rent. But it suggested the income gap is slightly less severe in metro Atlanta.

The Atlanta Beltline approved a $172 million budget for the fiscal year 2025, officials said Thursday, allowing it to surpass a goal of creating or preserving 5,600 affordable housing units by 2030.

In 2010, two famous economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, released a paper confirming what many fiscally conservative politicians had long suspected: that a country’s economic growth tanks if public debt rises above a certain percentage of GDP. The paper fell on the receptive ears of the UK’s soon-to-be chancellor, George Osborne, who cited it multiple times in a speech setting out what would become the political playbook of the austerity era: slash public services in order to pay down…

At drupa, PW tagged along as Uwe Melichar, European Brand and Packaging Design Association president, led a select group of brand owners on a personally curated booth tour. Here’s what we found out.

This project for the Master’s is a smaller scale example of personalized digital embellishment tech that still scratches sustainability, cost, and customization itches for larger scale FMCGs.

Mayor Andre Dickens commended the Council for passing his $2.75 billion budget proposal.

On a side street outside the headquarters of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology in the center of London on Monday, 20 or so protesters are getting their chants in order. “What do we want? Safe AI! When do we want it?” The protesters hesitate. “Later?” someone offers. The group of mostly young men huddle for a moment before breaking into a new chant. “What do we want? Pause AI! When do we want it? Now!” These protesters are part of Pause AI, a group of activists petitioning for…

MRFs love their AI-based robotic sortation systems, like AMP Robotics, Greyparrot, or Glacier. They’re more accurate, safer, and always show up for work. But CPGs also may benefit from package design and recovery data they’re are generating.

Mayor Andre Dickens cut the ribbon Friday on a new community market at the iVillage at MLK, the latest addition to the shipping container village at the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA station.