Protective Packaging

Primer

| March 21, 2012

Package design helps keep the patient first

Keeping patient safety in the forefront when designing packaging ensures that the drug or compound arrives intact and at optimal efficacy.

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Materials Product Brief

| February 9, 2012

Pre-qualified shipper

Suitable for the shipment of blood products, tissue samples, and pharmaceuticals that must remain in the 15°C to 30°C range, Cryopak’s TimeSaver 24 CRT Mini is a room-temperature pre-qualified shipper that keeps products between 20°C -24° C during shipment in hot or cold environments for up to 24 hours.

News

| January 31, 2012

Internet shopping to help build protective packaging demand

A rebound in manufacturing output and Internet shopping growth is predicted to advance U.S. protective packaging demand to $5.9 billion in 2016.

Custom-designed bathroom components, can be delivered in super-strong packaging.

Package Case Study

| January 4, 2012

Bathroom in a box

Shipper packaging for all-in-one customized, prefab bathroom components exhibits extra-added structural integrity to ensure intact product delivery.

Materials Product Brief

| December 8, 2011

Air cushioning system for low-volume shippers is space, budget friendly

Storopack’s AIRmove is a desktop air cushioning system designed specifically for low-volume packing and shipping operations (less than 100 packages/day).

Materials Product Brief

| October 27, 2011

PP sheet foam line with photodegradable properties

Microfoam® Green from Pregis is a green-colored version of their white Microfoam® PP sheet-foam line that visually communicates the environmental profile of this protective packaging alternative.

Feature Article

| September 28, 2011

An epistolary column

My Lead Off column in the July issue described how Ecovative LLC and others are turning to crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock. The column generated this intriguing exchange of e-mails.

Materials Product Brief

| September 25, 2011

Eco-friendly void-fill

Sealed Air’s PakNatural™ loose fill protective packaging is made from 95% non-food, renewable materials.

Materials Product Brief

| August 30, 2011

Eco-friendly protective packaging

Flexicomb from Cascades Specialty Products Group is a new flexible protective packaging that is economical and eco-designed.

Package Case Study

| August 23, 2011

Gillette razor packs made of renewable-fiber molded tray

Bamboo and bulrush form the basis of new packaging for Procter & Gamble’s Gillette Fusion ProGlide razor, a DuPont Diamond award winner for Excellence in Innovation, Cost/Waste Reduction, and Sustainability.

Package Case Study

| August 12, 2011

Furniture protected by mushroom 'root'-based packaging

Ecovative’s EcoCradle is a low embodied-energy, compostable, protective packaging material that is literally grown into any custom shape.

Package Case Study

| June 29, 2011

Protective packaging that's grown

Only two Diamond Awards for Excellence in Innovation, Cost/Waste Reduction and Sustainability were handed out this year, and one was won by Ecovative LLC for its EcoCradle™ protective packaging product.

Package Case Study

| June 13, 2011

DuPont Award winners announced

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers today announced winners in the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, representing breakthrough developments from brand giants such as Gillette and Coca-Cola.

Materials Product Brief

| June 7, 2011

Absorbent pad for soft fruit

Elliott Absorbents’ Berry-Sorb fruit absorbent pad, designed specifically to aid the long term freshness and appeal of soft fruits, such as raspberries and blackberries, combines cushioning, with a 150 gsm dual ply absorbent cellulose applied to a totally absorbent, yet sealed, topcoat.

Materials Product Brief

| January 16, 2011

Insulated pallet shipper

The RePak96 from Cryopak is a full-size pallet shipper used to keep a payload within a temperature range of 2°- 8°C for 96 hours.

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Automated Packaging Systems

Cliff Brehm,
President

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Form, Fill and Seal Baggers.
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Automated Packaging Systems, Inc. has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing flexible bag packaging systems for 50 years. We are the original inventor of genuine Autobag® bagging machines and pre-opened bags-on-a-roll.

Autobag® AB 180™ OneStep Bagger
FAS SPrint Revolution™ SidePouch® Bagger
Script Pack™ SPrint™ System
Autofulfillment™ SPrint™ System
Clear Lam Packaging, Inc.

Roman Forowycz,
Chief Marketing Officer

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Specialize in Flexible Film, monolayer/multilayer Forming Film, and Compounded Additives
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Our innovative flexible films, rigid rollstock materials, and compounded additives are developed to our customers' exacting standards to ensure quality and superior product performance. Visit www.clearlam.com and discover why Clear Lam is the industry's thought leader.

PrimaPak
Peel and ReSeal Lidding Film Technology
Renewable Plant Based Yogurt Cup Materials
Custom Compounded Additives
Placon

Laura Stewart,
VP of Sales and Marketing

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Custom and stock thermoformed blisters, clamshells and trays; Recycled PET flake and sheet
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View Placon’s extensive lines of stock food and retail thermoformed clamshells, custom medical device and retail packaging capabilities as well as our high clarity EcoStar® recycled PET sheet with up to 100% post-consumer content for thermoforming applications.

Thermoformed Plastic Food Packaging
Custom Retail Designed Thermoformed Packaging
Medical Device Thermoform & Protective Packaging
Post-Consumer Recycled PET Flake & Sheet
Unisource Worldwide, Inc.

Darin Tang,
President – Packaging Solutions Group

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We provide innovative and sustainable solutions to help enterprise-level companies improve their bottom-line performance. These highly efficient solutions include product packaging and fulfillment, paper and print management, facility supplies and supply chain logistics.

Product and Packaging Testing
Rapid Prototyping
Stretch Wrapping Solutions
Package Design