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Flexible Packaging

Scotts creates a no-mess, no-guesswork lawn spreader that works with pouched lawn-care products that snap into place and provide controlled-flow dispensing.
Feature Article
| March 5, 2013

Flexible packaging specification guidelines

Here are nine tips to help you get started with the process of deciding what film or films to include in a flexible structure or in a rigid package with film barrier.
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Campbell’s Skillet Sauces - Ampac
Feature Article
| February 27, 2013

2013 FPA Silver Award Winners

Following are the 2013 FPA Silver Award winners.
Kraft YES Pack for 1-gal portions of salad dressing used in foodservice institutions received the Highest Achievement Award in the 2013 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards.
Feature Article
| February 27, 2013

Innovation is king

The winning entries of the Flexible Packaging Association’s 57th annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards feature innovative enhancements that integrate consumer trends and needs with technical advancements in materials, graphics, structure, and sustainability to produce outstanding flexible packaging solutions. In all, 78 flexible packages were submitted into the 2013 competition by 29 flexible packaging companies. Of those, 25 packages will be honored with 29 FPA Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards within one or more categories including Packaging Excellence, Printing Achievement, Technical Innovation, and Environmental & Sustainability Achievement.
Materials Product Brief
| February 18, 2013

Mono-layer film

RockBarLid from Rockwell Solutions is a high-clarity, high-barrier, recyclable mono-layer film that is heat sealable, peelable or weldable to produce lidding and barrier flow wrap films suitable for a variety of products.
Package Case Study
| February 13, 2013

Seed mix entices in new windowed bag

A new package design for 20-lb bags of food-plot seed for deer allows for gravure-printed graphics across the entire bag, as well as a see-through window insert.
Materials Product Brief
| February 4, 2013

Drink packaging with square shape, double gusset

Smurfit Kappa’s Pouch-Up packaging is now available in a more cylindrical shape with two gussets, in addition to its 1L, 1.5 L, and 3 L pack with a single gusset at the base.
IMPROVED FRESHNESS & SALES. Bean sprouts packaged in the oxygen barrier film bags have yielded prolonged product freshness and increased sales.
Package Case Study
| January 29, 2013

Freshness extension for fresh produce

Laser film perforation technology helps control oxygen transmission rates in bean sprout bags, protecting product color and odor.
Feature Article
| January 4, 2013

BOPP bag for cat litter delivers shelf appeal, reduces damage

Dissatisfied with damage from its previous paper bags, MFM Industries, Inc. switches to polywoven BOPP bags that add strength and offer market differentiation.
Secondary packaging includes MoistCatch moisture absorber.
Package Case Study
| December 21, 2012

Moisture-absorbing breakthrough?

Plastic bottles holding a range of adhesives sold by Toagosei Co. Ltd. in Japan are now being put into secondary packaging that includes MoistCatch, a moisture-absorbing component that eliminates the need for adding moisture-absorbing desiccant pouches.
AeroShot Energy image
Feature Article
| December 14, 2012

Packaging critical for AeroShot Energy launch

Portability, dispensing, and graphics help market air-based energy product, as discussed in this exclusive Q&A.
Materials Product Brief
| December 13, 2012

Packaging glassine papers

Available in a broad range of basis weights, in virtually any color, Thilmany Papers’ Exhibitor brand of packaging glassine papers is engineered to offer the utmost in product visibility and performance flexibility.
Turkey Sealed Air
News
| November 21, 2012

Bagging unpardoned presidential turkey

Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s the vacuum bag used to protect the presidential family's turkey.
Materials Product Brief
| November 19, 2012

Ovenable poultry-cooking bag

Sirane’s Sira-Cook PA is a unique packaging solution for poultry, meat, and fish, which allows food to be packed, shipped, retailed, and cooked in the same package.
Package Case Study
| November 13, 2012

Premixed rum cocktails are pleasing in new pouch

Two new varieties of Malibu Rum premixed, ready-to-serve cocktails are introduced in a new pouch format that offers increased functionality.
Materials Product Brief
| October 30, 2012

Easy-open beverage pouch

An alternative to traditional straw punch-through beverage pouches, Ampac’s Pull Tab beverage pouch provides hygienic protection of the straw hole with a tear away Pull Tab label.

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