Ben MiyaresFlexible 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, 1998ClosuresAre 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, 1998LabelsThe 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, 1998CartoningLooking 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, 1998Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)Widemouth 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, 1998Flexible 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, 1998Flexible 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, 1997Converting equipmentHDPE-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, 1997Flexible 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 StoriesSustainabilitySurvey: Cost Tops List of Biggest Barriers to Sustainable PackagingAccording to Packaging World’s inaugural Annual Outlook Report survey, cost is the biggest challenge to adopting more sustainable packaging, followed by limited access to materials — with respondents also citing material reduction as a top design priority.Reusable/ReturnableLisbon Introduces City-Wide Reusable Cup ProgramFlexiblesNew CPG Brand-led Initiative Aims to Recycle Flexible Packaging at ScalePMMI NewsPACK EXPO Las Vegas 2025: The Premier Destination for Industry Networking and ConnectionsSponsor ContentStainless Steel Liquid Mixers for Demanding Sanitary Applications
