Flexibles

FPA Silver Award Winners, continued

This is a continuation of the FPA Silver Award winners...

February 28, 2006

Confection/Candy: Page 24

Additives, coatings & inks

Science of fresh white paper

DuPont's Dr. Donna L. Visioli examines the contemporary meaning of freshness.

January 31, 2006

Cartoning

Coordinate package design with machinery capabilities

At the Package Design 2006 Conference, designers saw how innovative package designs sometimes require all-new machine designs – and why it pays to collaborate with packaging engineering up front.

January 31, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Godiva delivers boxed elegance

Godiva Chocolatier Inc., New York City, raises the chocolate bar with its latest offering, Platinum, launched globally in September 2005.

December 31, 2005

Cartoning

Software, servos, and controller breed a new kind of cartoner

Carton forming, filling, and sealing are all integrated in a single unit that occupies minimal space on the factory floor.

December 31, 2005

Closures

Employing a 'scents' of smell

"The latest and greatest packaging innovations are packages that smell."

December 31, 2005

Containers

Specialty packaging

VisiPak offers its line of specialty packaging, including Gift Paks such as the candy cane tube packages, POP-Pak header cards that help eliminate the middleman and complete the entire package, Compartment Paks that separate products in one container, Donation Containers for fund raising, and Golf Ball Tubes for promotional campaigns.

December 31, 2005

Flexibles

Candy company sweetens packaging efficiencies

Farley’s and Sathers adds versatile vertical cartoning line to keep pace with growing product demand.

December 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Sustainable packaging from Nestlé UK

With its recent launch of assorted chocolates in the Nestlé Dairy Box, Nestlé UK becomes the first in the UK to commercialize packaging made of Plantic®.

November 30, 2005

Flexibles

Freezer drink mixes in gallon HDPE pails

El Paso Chile Co., El Paso, TX, is a producer of gourmet “Tex-Mex” foods and beverages.

November 30, 2005

Flexible packaging

Look what's coming down the packaging pike

From sustainability to high-pressure sterilization to nanotechnology, developments in food and beverage packaging hold tremendous promise.

November 30, 2005

Recycling

Soon playing on a shelf near you: Packaging

Thanks to electrochromic technology, these animated displays can turn a cereal box into a TV screen.

September 30, 2005

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

Luciano Packaging: Multifunctional vf/f/s machine

The new Key-Pak Model El-1200 produces flat-bottom, side-gusseted stand-up packages and standard pillow packages on the same vf/f/s machine. Features include quick tooling and program changeovers, stepper motor film drive system, PLC controls with color touchscreen, easy program selection from a list of various bag and product combinations, and free training on all Key-Pak models.

September 30, 2005