Flexibles

Combination stick-pack serves double-duty

A segmented tube holds all the ingredients needed for a sweetened cup of coffee or tea.

July 1, 2008

Beverage: Page 193

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

Speaking out on soaring raw material prices to consumer trends driving package design

Flexible packaging manufacturer ISO Poly president Dale Brockman speaks out on industry issues. A candid interview with Packaging World.

June 27, 2008

Dairy

Shrink sleeve applicator video

See video of Axon's 200SL full body shrink sleeve and tamper evident band applicator which can run up to 220 packages/min. Easily integrated with your existing lines or we can provide a complete system including applicator, conveyor and heat tunnel.

June 27, 2008

Secondary Packaging

What You Need to Know Before You Multipack

Not all multipacks are created equal—neither from a consumer nor a production standpoint. Depending on a company’s resources, desired throughput, and marketing goals, choosing the multipack style best suited to an operation can mean the difference between a profitable venture and a multipack misstep that doesn’t deliver the desired return, according to a new White Paper from Roberts PolyPro.

June 25, 2008

Dairy

21 carton sealing cost-cutting facts

In this atmosphere of stiffening competition it is increasingly important to take a hard look at your present procedures, materials and equipment. This white paper from BestPack shows you how to take this opportunity to consider new options and make appropriate changes and prudent investments quickly.

June 23, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging: the new enabler

Our PTIS group of packaging thought leaders from across the value chain and across packaging functions is happy to be contributing to Packaging World on a regular basis.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

Salon packages pamper as a 'lifestyle brand'

How can packaging raise the bar for exclusive salon products?

June 2, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

New BIB wine line toasts tried-and-true technologies

Mission Bell Winery’s 5-L bag-in-box wine line serves as a blueprint for a new 3-L line that provides ‘outstanding’ sterility, ergonomics, and productivity.

June 2, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Packaging workgroup rebuttal

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC should maintain a simple focus on packaging

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

Brand - protection packaging forum

At the first Brand-Protection Packaging Forum (www.packworld.com/bppf), leading brand owners such as Intel Corp., HP, Liz Claiborne, Lexmark, Catalent (see story, page 69), Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson Medical Device and Diagnostics shared their strategies for securing brand image and product integrity using the latest packaging materials and technologies. Held at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg April 8 and produced by Summit Publishing Co. with BPCouncil.com as a supporting association, this educational and networking conference was attended by more than 115 professionals.

June 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Catalent expert addresses turnkey serialization

Catalent Pharma Solution’s Akan Oton provides a contract manufacturer/packager’s perspective on serialization, authentication, and track-and-trace technologies in pharmaceutical distribution.

June 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beating the e-Pedigree deadline

The January 2009 e-Pedigree deadline set by California may have been pushed back two years, but that didn’t stop Biogen Idec from forging ahead with a solution.

June 1, 2008