Consumer packaged goods: Page 78

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Delay printing, see savings

A variable method of printing and labeling just before shipping is emerging. Known as Last Moment of Differentiation, it could curb costs and segment brand owners’ offerings.

December 5, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Sterling Anthony On Pack Expo Intl. 2008

For a variety of reasons, it was a good year.

December 3, 2008

Bakery/Snack

The packaging professional redefined

Packaging professionals are too often pigeonholed as being specialists on the Supply side of the integrated value chain and nothing more.

December 3, 2008

Cartoning

Wireless comes to packaging

Used for a decade in things like warehousing or petrochemicals, where long distances make wired connections inefficient, wireless is now surfacing in packaging.

December 3, 2008

Sustainability

Keener focus on structural design: the shape of things to come?

Color is king in packaging’s visual hierarchy. But shape, a strong No. 2, might be on the verge of a breakthrough. Shape speaks the ‘language of credibility’ in a holistic design.

December 3, 2008

Flexible packaging

Cost pressures cloud healthcare packaging's future

Mounting financial pressures top a list of issues driving the pharmaceutical, biologic, and medical device sectors. In an exclusive interview, Freedonia senior healthcare consultant Bill Martineau discusses where packaging fits into these issues.

December 3, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News

December 3, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

The fourth annual Sustainable Packaging Forum

The fourth annual Sustainable Packaging Forum this September in Denver upheld the event’s past level of program excellence.

December 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Lessons Learned: The outtakes

Another thing I’ve learned while poring over 2,800 responses to the 2008 version of our annual Lessons Learned survey the past several months is that many of you have a sense of bemusement about packaging.

December 3, 2008

Additives, coatings & inks

E-beam shows promise

Food packaging from a university perspective.

December 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

One man's outlook on packaging machinery

Todd Baker, engineering manager at the Liquid Nails Division of AkzoNobel Decorative Paints U.S., shares his thoughts on what to look for in automated packaging machinery.

December 2, 2008

Consumer packaged goods

Regional OEE workshops set for 2009

Locations and dates are Tampa in February, Chicago in June, and Denver in October.

November 30, 2008