Contract Packaging

The power of a label: Customization on a small scale

Packaging for specialty stores is more than just the container that holds the product. The package must also position the brand as a premium, “available here only” purchase and fit seamlessly with the store as a brand.

March 8, 2007

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Beverage

Focusing on the value of packaging professionals

As packaging professionals, most of us have to deal with the process of hiring new talent at some point in time. We will have to identify a candidate, make an offer, and persuade our candidate to accept.

March 8, 2007

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Frozen treat package mimics energy drink can

Hershey’s Ice Cream, Harrisburg, PA, has co-branded with Hammond, IN-based Swanel Beverages Inc., the manufacturer of an energy drink called Banzai, to create Banzai Energy Ice. The 4 oz treat is packaged in a squeeze-up tube made of solid bleached sulfate from Solo Cup Co. (www.solocup.com). Hershey fills the tubes using a Flex E Fill Rotary Filler from Solo Cup Co. and heat seals them with a thin foil lid, also from Solo Cup.

March 8, 2007

Beverage

Why manual palletizing can be more costly than automating

New white paper from FKI Logistex debunks common myths that prevent companies from automating their palletizing operations. Provides criteria to evaluate the true cost of remaining with a manual palletizing operation.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Beverage

Homework and ingenuity produces light-up bottle

Homework and three years’ of globetrotting legwork produces TY KU, a sake liqueur filled in a bottle that lights up whenever it’s lifted.

February 23, 2007

Beverage

A-B re-embraces teardrop bottles

It's back to the future for Anheuser-Busch's new Michelob bottles debuting now.

February 22, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Masterfoods Europe searches for modular packaging machinery

The concept of modular packaging machine design has multiple benefits, not the least of which is flexibility to respond to market requirements. This fact is increasingly influencing investment decisions.

February 20, 2007

Containers

Frozen treat tube mimics energy drink can

Hershey's Ice Cream cobrands with Banzai energy drink manufacturer Swanel Beverages Inc. to create Banzai Energy Ice in a 4-oz squeeze tube.

February 16, 2007

Beverage

Time-tested team

Yuengling, one of the oldest breweries in the United States, traditionally has used case-packing equipment manufactured by Standard-Knapp, one of the oldest casing machinery manufacturers in the United States. It has been a long, mutually beneficial partnership.

February 9, 2007

Beverage

New high-speed rotary packer cuts damage & downtime

Kinder, gentler handling results in less bottle breakage and less label scuffing while achieving faster line speeds and higher efficiencies.

February 9, 2007

Sustainability

Economics, environmental benefits, ease of transport

Three reasons why Three Thieves likes Tetra Pak® carton packaging option for wines.

February 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable practices go mainstream

With 60,000 suppliers seeking high marks on the Wal-Mart scorecard, can anyone doubt that sustainable packaging is here to stay?

February 9, 2007