Flexibles

FPA Awards--flexible fits for packaging puzzles

This year’s winners in the annual awards competition sponsored by the Flexible Packaging Association are technically, functionally, and graphically stunning. Standup pouches make a strong showing—again.

March 8, 2007

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Flexibles

Adding flexibility to case-packing & palletizing

Dean Foods fine-tunes packing and handling efficiencies for popular ‘Milk Chug’ products by installing versatile, easy-changeover case load/palletize equipment.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

The ice boxes cometh with repackaged clarity

Boxed trays of premium ‘shelf-stable ice’ as purified water receive a primary and secondary packaging revision.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Attention--disposable cup packaging

Color-Box®, a division of Atlanta-GA-based Georgia-Pacific (www.gp.com), has developed a unique package design for G-P’s patented Dixie® PerfecTouch Grab N Go 12-oz hot beverage, insulated cup/lid multipacks.

March 8, 2007

Tamper-evident machinery

Cognac Ferrand secures Asia-bound bottles

To protect its brand and its consumers, Cognac Ferrand, Charente, France, asked ArjoWiggins Security (www.security.arjowiggins.com) to secure its Landy Cognac bottles. Both companies worked together to develop a label that combines authentication and tamper-evident functions.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Pizza dough gets custom gas-valve packaging

Nestlé’s subsidiary Leisi, Wangen, Switzerland, is using model R530 thermoforming machinery, custom-adapted by manufacturer Multivac (www.multivac.de), to package fresh, refrigerated Buitoni-brand rolled pizza dough.

March 8, 2007

Additives, coatings & inks

And just like that, packaging for irradiation is broadened

There may never have been a technology quite like irradiation of foods and packaging. Legal clearances for its use keep expanding, but commercial acceptance of it doesn’t appear to be keeping pace.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Exopack goes global

Globalization represents one of the most important and dynamic influences on industrial competition, especially in the flexible packaging arena.

March 7, 2007

Flexibles

Pouch-in-pouch earns FPA's top honor

Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch from Wyeast Labs protects sensitive yeast products to gain two golds and highest achievement honors in FPA's annual awards recognizing the best in flexible packaging.

March 5, 2007

Flexibles

OfficeMax paper reams maximize easy opening

OfficeMax adds convenient, tear-strip opening to its branded film-wrapped reams of paper.

March 2, 2007

Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

Flexibles

Packaging environmental efficiency study released

Use-less-stuff's new 56-page study that takes a careful, measured look at environmental efficiency for various formats may be 'An Inconvenient Truth' for packaging.

February 22, 2007