Rising packaging material and supply-chain costs, environmental pressures, and government regulations make reusable transport packaging an attractive and profitable option.
FROM PACK EXPO 2008: New goals, scorecard metrics changes, and current progress are discussed at Pack Expo conference, led by Wal-Mart’s Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar.
Julian Carroll, Managing Director of EUROPEN, says that the fundamental difference between the United States and Europe is the way each community deals with packaging’s environmental consequences.
The U.S. corrugated industry is in the process of conducting a life-cycle analysis to help answer the growing number of questions being asked about packaging by customers, retailers, and consumers.
Contract packager Tjoapack installs a tablet line with coding, scanning, and software capabilities that deliver traceability from pallet all the way back to the unit dose.