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GMO tail wags dog, then dog bites tail—but what’s next?
If all you know about the new federal law on labeling and Genetically Modified Organisms is what you saw in headlines, I suspect that some further explanation is in order.
August 29, 2016
Operational Excellence
Packaging value chains
As educators of tomorrow’s packaging professionals, we embrace a holistic approach to innovation that considers the entire value chain, from raw materials to end users.
August 29, 2016
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Of OEMs and FATs
Rich Jacob is Senior Director of Engineering at Chicago-based World’s Finest Chocolate.
August 29, 2016
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Digital finishing—the darling of drupa
Upon my return from Dusseldorf and drupa 2016, I had planned on sharing a few observations in my August column about this mega print show.
August 5, 2016
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Leveraging anthropomorphic aspects in packaging design
To me, packaging is a canvas, and when I look at canvases, I expect to see art—something fun, something interesting, something...disruptive.
August 1, 2016
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Cracks in the foundation of FDA enforcement?
We regularly look at FDA enforcement statistics and try, often in vain, to see trends.
August 1, 2016
Workforce
Things ultra productive people do differently
How can you achieve extreme productivity without feeling so overworked and overwhelmed? Here are seven stellar suggestions from people who know.
August 1, 2016
Controls & Machine Components
Secure solution at the intersection of IoT and Industry 4.0?
Two terms often used interchangeably are “Internet of Things (IoT)” and “Industry 4.0.”
July 31, 2016
Operational Excellence
Private label packaging: Evolved but under-appreciated
Many private label products project a friendly, comforting, sometimes lighthearted presence through alluring multicolor graphics.
July 31, 2016
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Time to rethink strategy for customized e-commerce packaging?
The whole notion of e-commerce retailing continues to give many consumer product companies fits.
June 28, 2016
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Thinking behind the box
By now it’s likely you heard that FDA has made changes to the ubiquitous Nutrition Facts box, the first major overhaul to the prominent label feature since its inception in 1993.
June 27, 2016
Controls & Machine Components
OMAC update
Bryan Griffen, in addition to being a Group Engineering Manager at Nestlé USA, has served as the Chairman of the Board of OMAC (the Organization for Machine Control) for the past three years. Here he provides a snapshot of where OMAC has been recently as well as a glimpse of where it’s headed.
June 27, 2016
Workforce
Purdue Northwest: connecting the dots
Keynoting our sold-out Automation Conference & Expo May 24 in Chicago was Brench Boden, Chief Technology Officer at the Chicago-based Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII).
June 24, 2016
Reusable/Returnable
Medical devices and packaging demand simultaneous development
Sometimes the packaging of medical devices may be more challenging than the development of the device itself, reveals Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi in this exclusive Q&A with Vimal Kumar, Healthcare Packaging’s Life Sciences from India Columnist.
June 14, 2016
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News shapes the PACK EXPO experience
Some of us still “read and rip” daily print newspapers and weekly and/or monthly analyses of news events that can affect our professional lives, but it’s been decades since our primary source of general news was a TV anchorman and our only sources of industry news and developments were monthly “trade magazines.”
June 1, 2016
Beverage
Craft brewers' 'good decade'
Craft brewing in the U.S. is on a tear.
June 1, 2016
Sustainability
Nestlé Waters' green schemes
Newly appointed Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for Nestlé Waters North America Nelson Switzer talks about the company’s positions on greener packaging trends, including recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility, and bioplastics.
June 1, 2016
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The future, and present, of packaging substance regulation
They asked us to predict the future.
June 1, 2016
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