Flexibles

Shaped 'tree' pouch grows sales in Costa Rica (sidebar)

Gold—Printing AchievementStand-up pouch packaging manufactured, laminated, and printed by CLP Industries Ltd. helped international candy company Cafe Britt cultivate increased holiday sales of its line of Chocolate Britt candies in Costa Rica.

February 28, 2005

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Beverage

It's time for interpack

Running April 21-27 in Düsseldorf, Germany, interpack 2005 aims to provide the most extensive overview of the packaging world market.

February 28, 2005

Beverage

Arla's quest for Business-to-Manufacturing integration

Denmark’s giant dairy co-op sees standards-based automation solutions as the best way to harmonize not only processing and packaging but all of business and manufacturing, as well.

February 28, 2005

Dairy

Improved track-and-trace capability (sidebar)

Not only at Vimmerby but across the entire company, production IT manager Arne Svendsen is on a mission to provide Arla personnel full visibility into plant-floor processes, including pasteurization, cleaning, and packaging.

February 28, 2005

Flow wrapping

Promises, Promises, What's In It for Me?

Emerging standards and improved data connectivity hold the promise of helping manufacturers tie their plant and business processes into one neat package.

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

FPA Silver Award winners

Winners of Silver Awards in the Flexible Packaging Assn.'s 2005 Achievement Awards...

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Clean-design valves ensure sanitation

Clean-design pneumatic valve terminals and actuators offer a high level of hygiene, as well as low maintenance.

February 28, 2005

Labels

Seagram's Coolers undergo a package modernization

New bottle, new label, and new carrier graphics—they’re all aimed at contemporizing the Seagram’s brand and boosting sales.

February 28, 2005

Recycling

Splish, Splash... beverage containers may take a bath

Sewer authorities, water utilities, environmentalists, and others now are pushing for a consumption fee on beverage containers.

February 28, 2005

Beverage

Miller puts more beer in fridge

Building on its sales success with the 12-can Fridge Pack, Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing is now the world’s first brewer offering both 12- and 18-can Fridge Packs for Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft and Genuine Draft Lite beers.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

What a package designer should know about packaging machinery

At the Flexible Packaging Conference 2005, ELAU’s John Kowal helps packagers coordinate great package designs with the right machinery to run the packages efficiently.

February 28, 2005

Sustainability

Consumer-friendly packaging gains new importance

Mona Doyle wants brand managers and package designers to know this: The price you pay in good will and sales for packaging that consumers perceive as undesirable could get even higher.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Lessons learned from Baileys redesign

Baileys’ brand director offers advice about managing a major redesign.

January 31, 2005