Contract Packaging

Acing the audit

Preparation, practice, and consistency are essentials for impressing auditors.

December 5, 2008

Beverage: Page 184

Flexibles

CP 08 paints paths to innovation

It takes a planned strategy, Quaker Foods VP says. Conference gives direction to assembling the right team, and where and how contract packaging enters the mix.

December 5, 2008

Flexibles

Esio Beverage attracts a co-packer--without a product

Groundbreaking pouch beverage system was merely an idea. But Esio landed the right partner, with the right equipment, through a shared imagination of ‘what could be.’

December 5, 2008

Contract Packaging

Save the date! CPF 09 to be Sept. 1 in suburban Chicago

Contract Packaging and Packaging World magazines announce that their annual contract-packaging conference and networking event will be Sept. 1, 2009, in suburban Chicago.

December 4, 2008

Flexible packaging

Pharma packaging demand to rise: report

Demand for pharmaceutical packaging—a strong area of growth and opportunity for contract packaging—will increase in the U.S. and Puerto Rico by 5.5% annually to $16 billion in 2012.

December 4, 2008

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Complemar to co-pack razors for several retailers

Assembly and packaging production of the ShaveMate Diva razor and Titan 6-Blade razor have been awarded to Complemar Packaging and Fulfillment (www.complemar.com).

December 4, 2008

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Amazon identifies frustration-free packaging

The online retailer addresses consumer frustrations through Web pages featuring users' videos and photos, recommendations—and those packages that draw consumers' ire.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

The U.K.'s green milk (containers)

The milk container market in the U.K. exemplifies the sustainable options within an important packaging segment.

December 3, 2008

Beverage

Innovation insights

Innovation can be painful and costly, but the benefits are tremendous for creating brands that keep customers coming back, food and beverage developer Barbara Stuckey advises.

December 3, 2008

Beverage

Evian brings high fashion to bottled water

Fashion designers know that a good collection combines the reinvention of ideas with underlying signature qualities.

December 3, 2008

Recycling

What if...a collapsing bottle could maintain carbonation in soft drinks?

One of the greatest drawbacks in buying large volumes of soda is that the carbonation level of the product changes throughout the lifespan of the product. !”

December 3, 2008

Dairy

Small footprint, maximum functionality

IndraDrive Mi helps reduce footprint and add flexibility for a four-axis, top-load robotic case packer handling 120 packs/min.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Milk (packaging) gone green

The milk container market is exemplary of sustainable options and developments within one of the most important of all the food and beverage packaging segments.

December 3, 2008