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According to a Nielsen Global Food Packaging Survey, nearly one in two global consumers would give up all forms of packaging designed for convenience purposes if it would benefit the environment, including packaging designed for easy stacking/storing at home (49%); packaging that can be used for cooking, or doubles as a resealable container (48%); and packaging designed for easy transport (47%)
If stacking strength is essential, consider cartons. But when thick-film packs with carrying strength and message flexibility are key, bundle wraps are an emerging option.
Hugh Calloway has joined Macatawa Holdings, LLC—Praxis Packaging, Grand Rapids, MI, as senior account manager and packaging engineer.
Spray bottle with integral cavity wins year's top honor from the National Association of Container Distributors.
The packaging concept for Capture Drop’n Go Deep Cleaning Carpet
Tablets, jointly developed by Milliken Chemical, a div. of Milliken
& Co., Spartanburg, SC, and North State Flexibles, LLC, has earned an FPA Gold Award in the
Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category.
Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.
Workers at B&G Foods say they’re happily stuck on their new package sealing system. Reductions in maintenance, downtime, and adhesive costs are impressive.
Those waiting for California to implement e-pedigree requirements for
drugs as a means of thwarting counterfeiters: Hold your horses.
Hitachi America, Ltd., Industrial Systems Division, supplier of sophisticated electrical and electronic industrial equipment and components for application in pharmaceutical plants, food and beverage processing, steel making, mass transit systems, chemical plants, and other manufacturing facilities, has launched a B2B, Web-based portal for the industrial components and equipment business.
Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.
Join Packaging World for this free, one-hour educational Webcast on AFFINITY™ GA polyolefin plastomers. Learn how this technology has enabled one of the most important developments in packaging in the last 30 years.
Lachenmeier has its Stretch Hood machine type Power Flex in operation at Pack Expo 2006.
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