Coding, Printing & Labeling

Kleenex packaging gets personal

What if you could send family photos to a major CPG company so they could use them to decorate the packages you bring into your home?

May 16, 2011

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

An introduction to extended content labels for designers, marketers, & brand owners

Your product isn't getting any larger, so, how do you maintain shelf appeal, get brand messaging across and meet regulatory requirements? For many Consumer Product Groups the answer is extended content labels (ECL). Download this white paper from Quality Assured to learn more.

May 13, 2011

Sustainability

Convertible clamshell for McDonald's earns top AmeriStar Package Award

Creative pack for McDonald’s wins ‘Best of Show’ while a bag-in-box for automotive fluids takes sustainable packaging honors at the 2011 AmeriStar Package Awards competition.

May 12, 2011

Labels

New square bottle, with shrink sleeve label, adds an edge to bottled water brand

TalkingRain Beverage Company created a stronger brand presence on- shelf for its ActiVWater® brand with new square bottle, full-body shrink sleeve label, and package redesign. Printed with metallic inks, the new label design has easy-to-read graphics, bold flavor-specific colors, and displays well at retail.

May 10, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Industry Watch

A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

May 8, 2011

Labels

CTE--a key advance in food traceability

In November 2009 the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) released its FDA-commissioned report titled, “Product Tracing in Food Systems.”

May 7, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Patented label system earns award for AccuDial

Children's AccuDial wins the Edison Best New Product Award in the Consumer Packaged Goods Category

May 5, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Package design and on-line retailing

Here's a look at some of the reciprocal influences between package design and on-line retailing.

April 28, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Meijer Design Director: Packaging is the 'skin of commerce'

Vickie VanHurley offers pointers on designing ‘passion brands.’ And she warns that the relationship between shopper income and value might not always be what you think it is.

April 15, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Industry Watch

A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

April 11, 2011

Sustainability

Bottle made of OCC and ONP

Holding 50 oz of laundry detergent, this molded-pulp bottle—recyclable and compostable—is actually a shell with a LDPE liner inside that holds the product.

April 11, 2011

Cartoning

Digital printer does the work of two machines it replaces

Machine delivers superior print quality to the foil lidding on new blister thermoform/fill/seal line at contract packager Apace Packaging LLC.

April 11, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA awards Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. first Certified Biobased Product Label on its Renewable Thermo

Renewable thermoformed produce packaging developed by Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. has earned the industry’s first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label, part of a new voluntary labeling program to help purchasers choose products made with biobased commodities.

April 7, 2011