Pat Reynolds

VP Editor Emeritus

Here's where innovation hangs its hat

By the time I left Ice River’s plant, I knew I’d just seen not only one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen in the sustainable packaging arena but in packaging overall.

The crop waste buzz

Using crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock is suddenly hot.

Getting personal

The commercial printing industry has a technology that could migrate to packaging and have a sizable impact. It’s called personalization, and it rests on a three-legged stool of variable printing, affinity marketing, and automated route sequencing.

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Victoria's Secret tackles sustainability

“The key is recycling"—a candid view from LabelExpo.

More from Pat Reynolds

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Carton sealer's a keeper

Equipment, materials boost the production and look of Inland Market's cartoned fish.

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Novel beverage vending concept

From interpack: What if a vending machine could hold some 1,500 roll-fed pouches and fill beverage products from concentrate?

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Bottle's sidewall made of film

A 300-mL bottle made largely of flexible film has a carbon footprint 50% less than the PET bottle it replaces for Belgium's WCUP.

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Ipack-Ima to focus on world hunger

From interpack: An international summit on world hunger will be part of Ipack-Ima 2009.

Machinery advice: Beware of bells and whistles

"Buyers of manufacturing equipment are becoming too much like consumers buying the latest in consumer electronics, where bells and whistles carry the day to too great an extent."

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Data acquisition tool helps production at Tropicana

“There’s nothing new about production bottleneck analysis, but this is a much better tool for doing it.” –Tropicana Products.

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Automation is tip-top at Siptop: Pouching

Two robotic cells may be the main attraction on this Canadian beverage maker’s new line. But home-grown packaging solutions, especially in pouch-filling, are also crucial.

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OEMs: sharpen your focus on safety

Builders of packaging machinery be forewarned: You are entering a world where your customers may want safety features designed and engineered into machines from the get-go rather than having such features retrofitted onto machines as an afterthought.

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Tips from the Packaging Summit

Advice heard during the mid-May event included from Johnson & Johnson's manager of packaging technologies.