Goya switched from glass (at left) to PET bottles (right) for its line of marinades.
Package Case Study
| May 3, 2013

Goya goes lightweight, moving marinades from glass to PET

New PET hot-fill technology allows for a custom six-side flat-panel design for marinade bottles that provides an iconic shape, along with environmental savings over glass.
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Counterfeit Report cover
News
| May 2, 2013

Helping consumers identify counterfeit products

United Nations report provides visual guide to educate consumers and protect brands.
New HDPE bottle for new kefir beverage.
Package Case Study
| May 2, 2013

New HDPE bottles for new Kefir

Bio-tiful Dairy has a brand new bottle with shrink sleeve label for its new range of organic dairy drinks.
Redesign stresses vitality.
Package Case Study
| May 2, 2013

Vittel redesign stresses vitality

In the highly competitive market of Natural Mineral Waters, Vittel, the 150 year-old brand, needed to reinforce its positioning on the concept of vitality and emphasize those qualities on its brand and packaging design.
Feature Article
| May 2, 2013

The importance of honoring the 'secret hero'—packaging

Past DuPont Award winners reflect on the experience of being honored in the competition, while program leader Shanna Moore provides insight on the value of recognizing packaging innovation.
Column/Opinion
| May 2, 2013

Analyzing Budweiser’s bowtie can

Has Budweiser gotten bent out of shape over nothing, or are contoured cans the shape of things to come?
Feature Article
| May 1, 2013

The 2013 Salary Survey reveals skinny pay hikes + job security

Packaging pros saw a 3.49% average pay increase in 2012 compared to 2011, with job security and job prospects strong, according to respondents to the 2013 Institute of Packaging Professionals/Packaging World Salary Survey.
Secondary packaging is a paperboard sleeve.
Machine Case Study
| May 1, 2013

Microwave-ready rice pudding

Rieber & Son of Norway are such big fans of microwave pasteurization as a means of extending refrigerated shelf life that they recently installed their third line.
Jeff Loth, CPP
Column/Opinion
| May 1, 2013

For stellar structural packaging, excel at program management

In my 25 years leading new packaging development, I’ve witnessed and contributed to a wide range of projects.
Nice carton graphics are the finishing touch on these frozen portions of raw fish in ovenable film.
Feature Article
| May 1, 2013

Ovenable film brings opportunities to seafood marketer

Consumers like fish, and they’ve read about the health benefits associated with having more fish in their diet. Now Orca Bay Seafoods is making fish at home easy.
As many as four robots can be integrated into one of Schneider’s RVCL systems, but regardless of the number, each robot controller has integrated within it the hardware and software tools for vision processing.
OEM Application Note
| May 1, 2013

Machine vision processing made easy

A leading robotic integrator and maker of secondary and end-of-line packaging equipment, Schneider Packaging Equipment makes a line of Robotic Vertical Carton Loaders that are suitable for food, pharmaceutical, personal care, and other industries.
Nonni’s packs eight- and 10-count cartons and tubs of its Italian-style biscotti dunking cookies in a range of flavors at its Ferndale, NY, facility.
Machine Case Study
| May 1, 2013

Case packer provides 'phenomenal' uptime for biscotti baker

Nonni’s Foods installs a wraparound case packer for its boxed biscotti products, resulting in increased production and flexibility, and consistent product presentation.
News
| May 1, 2013

GS1 Healthcare US publishes new serialization guideline

The GS1 Healthcare US Secure Supply Chain Task Force, consisting of more than 50 members from throughout the supply chain, developed a guideline to identify and serialize pharmaceutical products using GS1 identification numbers.
News
| May 1, 2013

FDA’s Crowley addresses Unique Device Identification

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided a detailed description of proposed effective dates for Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements on its Web site.
The new laminated structure runs smoothly on the hf/f/s machines used at the Mars plant.
Package Case Study
| May 1, 2013

Foil-free pouch scores sustainable packaging points

Mars Africa finds a better way to package its line of instant dry soup mixes by replacing foil in its laminated structure with a coextruded barrier polymer.

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