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Package Design

Rigid Containers

Materials Product Brief
| April 11, 2013

Rotisserie chicken container

Placon has redesigned its patented, 2-piece HomeFresh Rotisserie Chicken Container to reduce its overall use of petroleum-based resins--without sacrificing the container’s strong visual appeal and structural integrity.
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Materials Product Brief
| April 11, 2013

Tube with pump dispensers

The Nea and SP343 integrated airless tube + pump dispensers for personal care products from Albéa deliver 360° application, precise, consistent dosage, and a high restitution rate, provide high-protection and cost-efficiency, and are available in a wide range of decorative technologies such as flexography, silkscreen, offset and hot stamping, and visual effects including photo-like, metallic-looking, matte and gloss, or 3D printing.
Materials Product Brief
| April 11, 2013

Foodservice jar

Featuring a multilayer PP/EVOH/PP structure, RPC Containers Corby’s new foodservice jar, the 4kg Bear jar, combines an extended ambient shelf life with improved safety in busy kitchen environments, and also offers enhanced transport efficiencies.
SuperLock container has many convenience features.
Package Case Study
| April 5, 2013

In-mold label has barrier layer

Two new dips in the TexMex range from Santa Maria, the biggest Nordic supplier of spices and tastes of the world, now come in a handy package with a reclosure feature.
Package Case Study
| April 5, 2013

'Considered Curation' directs design of herbal martini

Thoughtful selection and nurturing of each element of new ALTAR herbal martini line leads to brand that marries old-time apothecary with California contemporary.
Sal Costa
Package Case Study
| March 27, 2013

Transparent salt flake container provides differentiation

Square-shaped container replaces carton, permits consumers to see product on store shelves.
Full-aperture can end turns the can into a drinking vessel.
Package Case Study
| March 26, 2013

Debut of full-aperture can end for beer

With the April launch of Helles Golden Lager, its ninth canned beer, Sly Fox Brewing Co. of Pottstown, PA becomes the first brewery in North America to utilize the innovative 360 End™ beverage can technology.
Package Case Study
| March 25, 2013

Pepsi launches first new bottle design in 16 years

The new bottle's bold swirl and elevated profile are said to reflect the brand's attributes and youthful spirit.
The 75-mL container holds the same amount of spray as the conventional 150-mL format.
Package Case Study
| March 14, 2013

Unilever shakes up the aerosol world

Unilever has launched what it calls “the first major packaging reduction initiative for aerosol deodorants since they were introduced in the late 1960s.”
Materials Product Brief
| March 12, 2013

Aerosol sprayer for beauty, personal care products

MeadWestvaco’s Aerosense is an ergonomic aerosol sprayer which helps brands distinguish their products from more traditional push-button aerosol sprayers on the shelf by incorporating a trigger actuated sprayer into the design.
Materials Product Brief
| March 12, 2013

Environmentally-friendly wooden crates

Internationally rated for export, Labelmaster’s SnapCrates are economical, heavy-duty wooden shipping and storage containers that provide safe, secure shipping and can be reused up to 30 times, saving crate acquisition and disposal costs, as well as space in landfills.
Materials Product Brief
| March 12, 2013

Lightweight 64-oz. hot fill PET bottle

Amcor Rigid Plastics’ patent-pending Powerblock 3.0 Container is a unique stock container for juices and teas that also delivers sustainability advantages by cutting 9 grams, or 13.2%, from the typical 68 gram PET bottle.
Perrigo tub open
Package Case Study
| March 8, 2013

Infant formula tub filled with innovation

New package delivers consumer convenience with easy foil-liner removal, more hygienic scooping of the powder from the SmarTub.
The smiling bottle has strong consumer appeal.
Package Case Study
| March 7, 2013

Smiling face design for barrier bottles

Lesieur, innovative leader of the French food dressings and sauces market, has introduced a new range of products contained in an attractive squeeze bottle with a smiling face design.
Del Monte's new Occasions line of fruit drinks.
Package Case Study
| March 6, 2013

Del Monte unveils new line of juice drinks

Del Monte has introduced a new product range called Del Monte Occasions.

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