Protective Packaging

Materials Product Brief

| January 16, 2011

Extended shelf life for fresh produce

SLB™ Shelf Life Booster from Hefestus, Israel extends ready-to-eat fruit and vegetable shelf life.

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Materials Product Brief

| January 16, 2011

Paper-based honeycomb pallets

Pregis’ Hexacomb® Billboard™is an all-paper, honeycomb-based pallet solution that features surfaces for brand placement and an additional outer edge wrap that turns a pallet into a ‘display’ at the retail level.  

News

| January 14, 2011

U.S. demand for green packaging to reach $41.7 billion in 2014

Fastest gains are expected for degradable packaging and plastic recycled-content packaging, reveals new study from Freedonia.

Materials Product Brief

| January 3, 2011

Paper-based protective packaging

NaturePlank™ engineered honeycomb plank from Pregis Corp. is a kraft-paper based protective packaging alternative that uses water-based adhesives.

Package Case Study

| January 3, 2011

Microsoft designs an 'opening ceremony' for Xbox

Xbox 360 Kinect gaming device, Microsoft Corp. decided to refresh the packaging lineup for its Xbox hardware product line.

Materials Product Brief

| November 12, 2010

ChamberPak protective packaging from Pregis Corp. features a series of adjoining air tubes that are securely inflated to cushion and protect products during shipment.

Materials Product Brief

| November 6, 2010

Eco-friendly option comes to protective packaging

Laminations' UCrate provides shaped channels that provide strength, protection, and recyclability in protecting tubes and glass products.

Materials Product Brief

| November 2, 2010

Pregis Corp. unveils hybrid cushioning system

Targeted to contract packagers, fulfillment houses and 3PLs, the AirSpeed unit handles multiple roll widths and cell heights, and also offers easy operation.

Materials Product Brief

| November 1, 2010

Paper-based honeycomb pallets extend branding surface on displays

Besides an expanded merchandising area, Hexacomb Billboard pallets are lighter, handle heavier pallet loads, and provide nesting and sanitation benefits.

Materials Product Brief

| October 15, 2010

Protective packaging

ChamberPak protective packaging from Pregis Corp. features a series of adjoining air tubes that are securely inflated to cushion and protect products during shipment.

News

| October 14, 2010

Leadership in Packaging category leaders announced

Packaging World’s 2010 Leadership in Packaging program was launched in January to recognize leadership and excellence among suppliers of packaging machinery, materials and services; as this year’s program concludes, twenty companies have earned the honor of Category Leader.

Materials Product Brief

| October 10, 2010

New foam-in-place (FIP) website

The new website for Pregis’ IntelliPack foam-in-place (FIP) business unit is an educational tool for companies interested in finding out more about FIP as a protective packaging solution, and features multiple “how-to” videos, and an invitation for a no-obligation, on-site demonstration.

Feature Article

| September 21, 2010

An inside job

Interior packaging protects the product when exterior packaging can't do it alone.

Materials Product Brief

| September 14, 2010

Recycled content cushioning

Sealed Air’s Bubble Wrap® brand recycled grade cushioning incorporates a minimum of 50% pre-consumer recycled content with the patented Barrier Bubble® technology, so the cushioning retains air longer, providing superior protection and promoting reusability of the packaging material. See it at PACK EXPO.

Materials Product Brief

| September 7, 2010

Protective packaging solutions

A line of protective packaging products from Unisource Worldwide includes lightweight, flexible and cost-effective bubble cushioning, polyethylene foam and poly bubble mailers.

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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