Contract Packaging

How to build a successful service-provider relationship

So, you’ve decided to employ a contract manufacturing strategy for your secondary packaging to improve manufacturing flexibility and customer service, and reduce costs.

December 5, 2009

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Tamper-evident machinery

Gerresheimer highlights drug delivery products made of glass and plastic

Comprehensive ranges - interesting specialist lecture: the Group provides an overview with lots of background information.

December 1, 2009

Flexibles

Contract packaging looks strong in Europe

Budelpack Poortvliet BV, a leading contract packager in the fast-moving consumer goods category, has announced significant investments in stand-up pouch and stick-pack packaging lines. Brand owners use services like that provided by this Dutch firm to launch new products quickly and efficiently.

November 19, 2009

Sustainability

DuPont Packaging announces call for entries for 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation

Seeking breakthroughs in packaging innovation, sustainability and waste/cost reduction, DuPont Packaging announced the call for entries in the 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, the industry’s longest running, independently-judged competition. The deadline for entries is Feb. 12, 2010.

November 18, 2009

Recycling

PLMA Show, like the private label market, is booming

First time observations from show floor—packaging still has a long way to go.

November 16, 2009

Containers

Amid cheese's slump--an opportunity?

The recession has hit cheese sales hard, but how about refocusing marketing efforts on single-serve snack packaging? The same idea revitalized soup sales.

November 13, 2009

Containers

Pharmaceuticals: 'Fragmented' future with regulatory benefits?

PAs the focus changes from blockbuster drug development to more targeted therapies, pharmaceutical firms and the FDA could work more closely.

November 10, 2009

Beverage

Whiskey bottle appears to pulsate to the beat

Ballantine launches a bar bottle with illuminated graphic equalizer that reacts to sound!

November 10, 2009

Beverage

The 'oldest profession' still follows the money

Packaging technologies serve as part of the ‘tool kit’ to identify pharmaceutical counterfeits.

November 2, 2009

Beverage

Wins and losses at the shelf: What drives purchase intent?

10% of package redesigns spike sales and 20% spur declines. What do the winners have in common? They create visual disruption and entice shoppers to reconsider a brand.

October 31, 2009

Beverage

Healthcare Packaging broadens live event for princeton

October 30, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Money matters: Rewards spur consumers to recycle, reuse

New packaging-waste reduction programs see measurable results when consumers receive tangible rewards.

October 29, 2009

Containers

SPE Announces 2009-2010 Board of Directors Election Results

ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 24,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has announced the results of its 2009-2010 International Board of Directors election, revealing a slate of representatives that hail from nearly every corner of the globe.

October 26, 2009