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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Recycling
Mountain man's green bottles
That’s green as in planet-friendly packaging. Founder David Zutler is chief executive officer of BIOTA Brands of America Inc., Telluride, CO, which introduced for retail sale in October the world’s first water in bottles made of polylactide, or PLA, a polymer derived from corn that’s commercially compostable.
November 30, 2004
Water: Page 19
Bio-based
PLA makes splash in bottled water
Sustainable packaging received a dramatic boost as BIOTA Brands of America Inc., Telluride, CO, launched its premium spring water in bottles molded of Cargill Dow LLC NatureWorks™ polylactic acid starting in October.
November 30, 2004
Closures
Kwik Trip's cap conversion
Convenience store chain Kwik Trip, Inc., processes and packages all its Nature’s Touch-brand milks, juices, juice drinks, and bottled waters at its dairy facility in LaCrosse, WI.
October 31, 2004
Flexibles
Credit-card-sized refillable water 'bottle'
This theoretical development from a UK design contest is a compact, on-the-go alternative to bottled water that’s also environmentally friendly.
August 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Drive Integration with Standards
As companies find many reasons to integrate data from process manufacturing and packaging with each other and with the rest of the company’s business applications, engineers are turning to standards and models from the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA), OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for help.
August 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID tags becoming easier to read
On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.
August 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID tags becoming easier to read
On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.
August 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor
A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.
July 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor
A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x8-1/2’ container is quenching the troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
June 30, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID tags becoming easier to read
On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.
May 31, 2004
Beverage
The bottled water trend
With brands like Dasani and Absopure now selling their water PET bottles in MeadWestvaco FridgeMaster® multipacks, some bottle water manufacturers are shifting away from the more traditional shrink-wrapped multipacks.
May 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Looking at labeling issues
Carb labeling, dietary guidelines, and labeling issues dominate this regulatory update from Washington correspondent Cecelia Blalock.
March 31, 2004
Beverage
Double wrapping improves Cardinal's health
Healthcare provider Cardinal Health upgrades its surgical kit operations with new shrink-wrapping equipment.
February 29, 2004
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