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Designing packaging for medical marijuana presents unique challenges
Marjorie Fischer is Brand Manager at Auntie Dolores, an Oakland-based leader in the medical cannabis movement and a producer of medical edibles sold through licensed dispensaries. She talks about what it’s like to develop packaging for such a new industry.
June 30, 2015
Workforce
Report: American manufacturing is alive and well
Talk that America’s manufacturing might has severely declined over the last few decades and only low-wage jobs remain is a myth, says a report from Ball State University and Conexus Indiana.
June 26, 2015
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Calling for integrated education
Among the highlights of The Automation Conference held May 19-20 in Chicago were two keynote presentations that addressed the transformation now underway within industry and manufacturing as we adopt and deploy internet-thinking and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Both speakers emphasized that the hard part of achieving business-transforming results is really the soft part: the issues of leadership, collaboration, change management, and action-orientation. On the Edge blogger Keith Campbell, a regular contributor to Packaging World and to this newsletter, had this reaction about the TAC presentations.
June 17, 2015
Flexibles
20 years of stick packing in America: What have we learned?
Neil Kozarsky, CEO and President of Technical Help in Engineering and Marketing (T.H.E.M.) offers insight on past predictions, current emerging trends and the 'remarkable journey' of flexible stick packaging as the format approaches its 20th year in North America.
June 17, 2015
Workforce
Women in operations
Jill Costelow, VP Operations and Supply Chain for Pressed Juicery, LLC, a cold-pressed juice company in Fresno, CA, discusses her experiences as a female mechanical engineer in a male-dominated field and suggests ways CPGs and packaging organizations can encourage and support young women to pursue a STEM career.
June 1, 2015
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In reality, how much are you conserving?
Have you ever noticed that when it comes to describing or quantifying how sustainable an initiative has been, most companies like to play the fantastical imagery card?
June 1, 2015
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Driven sideways by Big Data
In previous columns we’ve discussed how Big Data, by tightly connecting sales, customers, and production as never before, is poised to radically change the landscape not only of manufacturing but of how we package products, as well.
June 1, 2015
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GMO foods and labels: many angles, many squabbles
The ongoing debates about genetically modified organisms in food, especially over label statements saying a food lacks GMOs, seem to be everywhere all at once.
June 1, 2015
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Exponential growth in tech brings many challenges
Keith Campbell, PMMI Media Group’s On the Edge blogger, reflects on a series of recent events that have highlighted how vulnerable our economy’s infrastructure is now that concepts such as the industrial internet of things have pushed us into an exponential growth mode.
May 18, 2015
Recycling
Designing cost-effective packaging strategies
I would love the opportunity to consult a reliable crystal ball and see what lies ahead for this very important business we call packaging.
May 4, 2015
Material handling
ISTA’s Advocate Program
The rise of e-commerce and the steady growth of the global marketplace are among the reasons why package design and test protocols need to be reexamined.
May 4, 2015
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Validation is a useful tool for most disciplines
Because the FDA requires validation of package and process in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, it’s tempting to think that validation is somehow less applicable to other industries.
May 4, 2015
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Updating nanotech a little
The still-emerging science of nanotechnology is especially relevant to packagers because many early adoptions of this exciting new technology are for packaging and food uses.
May 4, 2015
Operational Excellence
The Heinz-Kraft merger from a packaging perspective
Heinz 57 would be an underestimation of the number of issues facing the company resulting from its merger with Kraft Foods.
April 3, 2015
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Recent science, technology advances are good topics for digital packaging discussions
Consider recent scientific and technological observations on the nature of giant squid beaks, thermoformable paperboard, “self-healing plastics,” and the underwater tenacity of mussels.
April 1, 2015
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New realities for packaging
Our traditional understanding of and approach to reality is being challenged these days.
April 1, 2015
Dairy
Byrne Dairy on agritourism
Nick Marsella, Senior VP and COO at Syracuse, NY-based Byrne Dairy, talks about a new expansion and how packaging lines fit into an upstate New York agritourism initiative.
April 1, 2015
Contract packaging
Progress in paper bottles
In case you hadn’t noticed, the race for a paper bottle is on.
April 1, 2015
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