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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Dairy
Letters to the editor
Survey on targetI concur with your buying survey responses (www.netsourcingmag.com/articles/04.00/survey.htm)—the majority of people, even Web-savvy packaging professionals, are primarily using the Net to purchase office supplies or basic, stock commodity packaging components with previously qualified vendors—not specified packaging materials—as other surveys have suggested.
August 31, 2000
Food: Page 323
Bakery/Snack
The Myth of the Single Portal
Some online marketplaces would have you believe that at the end of the day, there will be only one Web site that buyers use for Internet packaging procurement.
August 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
'No-label' look reflects purity of product
Global Balance Co. switches from a glass jar to an HDPE tube for consumer benefits, vastly improving product sales.
August 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Battle brewing over child-resistant caps
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering mandating child-resistant closures for cosmetics, cleaning solvents and auto products, among others.
August 31, 2000
Cartoning
Food marketers focus on schools
New packaging equipment is helping two California food processors grow their school foodservice businesses.
August 31, 2000
Flexibles
Growth accelerates in flexible materials
Volume of flexible packaging materials continues to outpace growth in both the overall economy and for all of packaging. FPA report does identify some potential problems, however.
August 31, 2000
Flexibles
Shrink wrap solves promo problems
Mayes Brothers, a manufacturer of carpentry levels, has increased its business and found a faster and cheaper method of packaging with PVC shrink wrap.
August 31, 2000
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
PVC clamshells open up markets for hitching mirrors
Moving out of the box and into marketable, protective clear PVC clamshells gets results for ‘The Backup Buddy,’ a mirror assembly for hitching trailers.
July 31, 2000
Contract Packaging
Retailers need to play role in defeating counterfeits
The marketing and sale of counterfeit products hurts every member of the supply chain—except the counterfeiter.
July 31, 2000
Flexibles
StarKist makes waves with pouch
Next month, StarKist Seafood will introduce to retail markets nationwide three varieties of its StarKist tuna in retorted pouches with an 18-month shelf life.
July 31, 2000
Labels
Heinz' EZ Squirt has more than cool curves
Come October, innovative packaging will help the H.J. Heinz Co. launch Heinz EZ Squirt, the first ketchup designed especially for kids. The Pittsburgh-based ketchup king designed the package with cool curves and pliable sidewalls that are easily squeezed.
July 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Appointments, promotions
Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc. (Austin, TX): Dale E. Stahl, president, COO.
July 31, 2000
Dairy
Supplier Web sites: The pain and the promise
One of the most astonishing findings of a survey we conducted earlier this year is that packaging buyers are still slogging through general Web search engines to source packaging suppliers.
July 31, 2000
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Products
EOL Group to Showcase the FLEXLINE at PACK EXPO
See the FLEXLINE—an automated packing system designed to efficiently and reliably package a wide range of products, including oddly shaped stick items and various formats of cups and pouches, at speeds up to 40,000 units per hour—at Standard-Knapp's Booth W-2110.
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