Recycling

A flair for Hispanic packaging

Hispanic package design expert Mariví shares her advice about packaging for this hot, high-growth market.

November 30, 2004

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Consumer packaged goods

Sun Chemical forms security solutions business unit

Sun Chemical has formed Sun Chemical Security, a new global business unit that will provide a range of products used to print packages, documents, and currency that incorporate security measures.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

The wrap-up: Old wine in old pouches

In this article from National Geographic, an archaeologist traces drink to the Stone Age and finds pouched wines.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Flexible pouch mated with trigger sprayer

PACK EXPO : Kapak released its flexible pouch mated with trigger sprayer at its booth, S-575, at Pack Expo International 2004.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Flexible Packaging Conference includes hard-hitting keynotes, panelists

The Flexible Packaging Conference scheduled for March 14-16 at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld in Orlando, FL, will include top-flight keynote speakers to analyze the ongoing shift from rigid to flexible packaging.

October 31, 2004

Converting equipment

Supply chain for clear PP bottles

PACK EXPO : At K’2004 in Germany, Sidel showed its new crystal-clear clarified polypropylene (cPP) bottles made on Sidel’s injection stretch blow molding SBO Series 2+ equipment.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID-enabled fluid products coupling

PACK EXPO : Colder Products showed its CPC smart coupling products at its booth at Pack Expo International 2004. CPC smart coupling provides product identification and data capture for fluid applications.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Sun Chemical Corp.

October 31, 2004

Consumer packaged goods

Bid for tighter olive oil standards

The California Olive Oil Council asked USDA to tighten its grading standards for olive oil to prevent domestic and foreign producers from blending lower grade olive oil into what can be sold in the United States as “extra virgin” olive oil.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Five Packaging Tactics Deliver 'Show Biz' at Retail

Bulk displays and more intense messaging are among the tools that gain sales in retail outlets.

October 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Best-Practice' Techniques Deliver Shelf Impact

Here are five packaging strategies used today to help create the product-to-shopper connection that drives brand sales.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Finger paint kit 'stands up' at retailer's command (sidebar)

Not only do packagers have to develop packages for specific distribution channels. Increasingly, they have to develop packages for specific retailers.

October 31, 2004