Ben MiyaresPrimary PackagingLooking for a packaging edge? Explore technology's promisesIf you're looking for an edge--and who isn't?--there's a wealth of emerging technology available today that can help: (1) improve the quality of your product; (2) heighten your packaging line productivity; (3) reduce your packaging costs; and (4) improve your product sales/profitability.July 31, 1998Primary PackagingAre packagers ready to invest in metal's best and brightest?Packaging managers looking for innovations can be forgiven for focusing most of their attention on the flexible packaging and rigid plastic container fields.June 30, 1998Primary PackagingThe incredible power of shrink packagingShrink packaging of bottles, jars, cups and other rigid containers has amazing product merchandising and protection powers. While assuring the wholesomeness of food and beverages contained, shrink packaging can also transform a container frog into a packaging prince.May 31, 1998Coding, Printing & LabelingRectangular Spam cans upgrade to BOPP labelsFor those of us who can remember the 1950s, being "spammed" has taken on new meaning. This is not something that affects the twentysomething and younger crowd much.April 30, 1998Primary PackagingLooking for machinery trends? Read PMMI's numbers; forget DoC'sBen Miyares is editor and publisher of the newsletter Packaging Management. He may be reached at 31408 Narragansett Lane, Bay Village, OH 44140. Telephone: 440/892-0998; Fax: 440/892-0208; e-mail: [email protected].March 31, 1998Primary PackagingWidemouth cups will expand beverage packaging optionsWe've been looking at the newest generation of Ensure® nutritional supplement packaging and thinking that thermoformed or injection-molded cupsin some advanced stage of developmentcould be beer and carbonated beverage containers (CSDs) in the future.February 28, 1998Primary PackagingDOJ kills Reynolds/Alcoa deal; will it chill Reynolds/Ball talks?In late December the U.S. Department of Justice moved to prevent Reynolds Metals Co. (Richmond, VA) from selling its Muscle Shoals, AL, aluminum can stock rolling mill to Alcoa (Pittsburgh, PA).January 31, 1998Primary PackagingNew Year's promise: Further packaging advancesThere's a better-than-even chance we'll see a surge in packaging advances this year. Packaging developers in a host of segments see the promise of their long labors bearing fruit in 1998.December 31, 1997Primary PackagingHDPE-based Tropicana bottles project fresh, 'local dairy' imageIn the first stage of a national roll-out, coextrusion blow-molded bottles for Tropicana FruitWise smoothies are finding a place in the refrigerated cases of supermarkets in Cleveland and several other markets.November 30, 1997Primary PackagingConsumers want better packagingFriends and family who know I have "something to do with" packaging are always asking me to pass on their packaging complaints, observations and requests.October 31, 1997Previous PagePage 3 of 5Next PageTop StoriesContract PackagingDo You Have the Tools for Success?Wheelhouse Contract Packaging asserts that the right tools and certifications open opportunities for growth.Containers & ClosuresAn Exemplary Model of Niche Business CapabilitiesSustainabilityVuori, Clarins, and Kaufland Introduce Reusable Packaging InnovationsRecyclingMRF’s Polymer Center Network to Expand Access to Recycled PlasticSponsor ContentReady Meal Packaging End-of-Line of the Next-Generation