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Interacting with consumers is key to successful package design
Scott Carpenter, Senior Associate Director–Innovation and Development at Bayer HealthCare, talks design, disruption, and Coppertone Whipped Lotion.
July 3, 2017
Scott Carpenter, Senior Associate Director–Innovation and Development, Bayer HealthCare
Beverage
Craft brewers dig labels
This year marked the 34th edition of the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America (CBC).
June 1, 2017
Pat Reynolds, VP Editor
Labels
Toward a ‘clean’ label
There is no universally accepted definition for what we mean when we say “clean label.”
June 1, 2017
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Don’t Cry. It may not be too late to safeguard packaging data
When this column suggested in February that packaging operations were vulnerable to crippling ransomware attacks, the massive international WannaCry (AKA WannaCrypt) malware attack that infected more than 200,000 computers around the world in a matter of hours hadn’t happened yet.
June 1, 2017
Ben Miyares
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States burdening packagers, while feds move toward burdening regulators
Come with me now into the strange and fascinating world of government structure and organization.
June 1, 2017
Eric Greenberg
Material handling
How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
May 17, 2017
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
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Death Row records
The execution fiasco in Arkansas left drug manufacturers scrambling to figure out how the state's Department of Correction got their hands on a supply of lethal injection drugs. Could serialization have helped?
May 15, 2017
Regardless of how you feel about capital punishment, serialization would have, at least, helped manufacturers quickly identify if the drugs in question were their products.
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Sorter increases food
Also reduces product waste .
May 9, 2017
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With new FDA head, expect activism
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who has worked at FDA before, is a doctor and medical products investor. He comes in with very specific ideas for change.
May 9, 2017
Eric Greenberg, Contributing Editor
Operational Excellence
Spotted at interpack: A 'look' at the future
At the event in Dusseldorf, many companies gave a look at what's to come, including augmented reality (AR) glasses for maintenance and more connected systems for improved OEE.
May 8, 2017
Keren Sookne, Director of Content for Healthcare Packaging, gets fitted for an 'augmented reality' tour in the Pester booth here at Interpack in Düsseldorf.
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Disrupting the shelf – from the bottom up
Give your consumers a reason to use bottom-up processing—or go off autopilot—when viewing your products on-shelf by creating disruptive packaging design.
May 6, 2017
Putting a gabletop carton-packaged box of cereal in the cereal aisle, the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign became a great disruptor
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Combining the Benefits of Custom and Off-the-shelf at interpack 2017
Highlights from interpack 2017 include an expedited machine design strategy, crowdsourced tablet coating innovation, and talk of Industry 4.0 in pharma.
May 5, 2017
groninger debuted its 'Business Line' machine series, where they’ve taken the best capabilities from existing, customized equipment and configured them into designed modules for expedited shipment times. Source: groninger
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What does a packager mean by sell by, use by, or best by?
What is the solution when consumers are confused because packagers of food use a variety of statements to convey ideas about the useful life of food?
May 1, 2017
Eric Greenberg
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Otto, automation, and the Great Retail Shift
German e-retailer Otto is using algorithmic business decision systems and a powerful treasure trove of customer data to understand customer experience.
May 1, 2017
E-commerce/D2C packaging
A trio of topics trending in packaging
As IoPP has interacted recently with thought leaders among our members about topics they see as “hot buttons,” three areas emerge:
May 1, 2017
Jim George
Recycling
Packaging innovation challenges
Carlo Rotunno, Group Head of R&D – Packaging, for Nomad Foods Europe, a market-leading frozen food company based in the U.K., shares his thoughts on the role of materials, design, and innovation in packaging development as well as those trends that will change the industry in the next decade.
May 1, 2017
Carlo Rotunno
Filling/capping, dry
Amazing things
Touring packaging operations has always been the thing I like most about my job.
April 26, 2017
Pat Reynolds, VP Editor
Operational Excellence
Taking Wound Care Cues from Spiders
Is point-of-use nanofiber production the future of wound care? Harvard researchers inch closer to a system that could one day produce sterile bandages in the field.
April 21, 2017
A schematic of the pull spinning apparatus with a side view illustration of a fiber being pulled from the polymer reservoir. The pull spinning system consists of a rotating bristle that dips and pulls a polymer jet in a spiral trajectory (Leila Deravi/Harvard University)
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