Containers

New vodka and a touch of elegance, at $37 per bottle

First impressions are everything for a new brand, especially in a crowded aisle like vodka.

August 3, 2009

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Controls & Machine Components

Pack Expo purchases spur a return to Vegas

For a bakery in Georgia and a potato chip manufacturer in Hawaii, Pack Expo Las Vegas 2007 was the place to buy equipment that brought greater productivity and company growth.

August 3, 2009

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Candy maker refines packaging flexibility

Fully automated, easily programmable form/fill/seal/print systems reduce labor costs and packaging material waste.

August 2, 2009

Additives, coatings & inks

FDA issues anti-counterfeiting draft guidance

The draft guidance is an important step in working with manufacturers to make drug products harder to counterfeit.

August 1, 2009

Closures

Bacardi Breezer puts the pressure on PET

Heavy carbonation in Bacardi’s rum beverage makes switching from glass to PET a technology challenge.

August 1, 2009

Labels

Paper pack gives way to plastic tube

Package design expertise brings a modern twist to an old favorite.

August 1, 2009

Beverage

Checkweigh QA for liqueur cordials

Cordials manufacturer installs checkweighers from Mettler Toledo Garvens in its new production sites.

August 1, 2009

Flexible packaging

Awards push sustainability

The 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation honors 10 winners that all carry a sustainable packaging message in their design and construction.

July 2, 2009

Flexibles

Global packaging research collaboration

The column takes a different direction this month, as it looks at how our packaging research and academic institutions coordinate and collaborate on food and beverage packaging research.

July 2, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation

Product development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation, says Packaging Hall of Fame inductee Edward J. Bauer, senior director, product and package innovation and development, for Pittsburgh-based General Nutrition Centers.

July 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bauer's pharmaceutical handbook lends 'Hall of Fame' packaging perspective

Professionals and students will benefit from an informative research tool now available for the healthcare packaging community.

June 5, 2009

Tamper-evident machinery

Tracking elusive OEE in pharmaceutical packaging

Pharmaceutical manufacturers lag behind food and other industries when it comes to overall equipment effectiveness on their packaging lines.

June 5, 2009

Labels

NACD's best packages highlighted

Activate earns best of show in NACD's 46th annual competition.

June 3, 2009