Beverage

Graphis Packaging 7 a resourceful package

Question: When Graphis Packaging 7 arrives, the newest volume in the Graphis series of books, should it be placed on the coffee table or on a shelf with other packaging reference books?

August 31, 1997

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Beverage

Soaring demands, shrinking resources

Readers are concerned with unequal pay, heavier workloads for shrinking staffs, and constant crisis control. Packaging World's first exclusive salary and job satisfaction survey reveals a majority are content with their paychecks.

August 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Kodak develops speedier labeling

Completing generic preprinted labels with laser-printed variable information allows Kodak to ship orders within 24 hours while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for its small-batch printing needs.

August 31, 1997

Cosmetics/Personal care

Engineers paid well to handle changes

Packaging engineers earn a good income and many received a healthy pay raise last year, according to Packaging World's exclusive salary survey. But many feel their effectiveness is limited by perpetual crisis management, downsizing and unrealistic schedul

August 31, 1997

Cosmetics/Personal care

Supplier news: Achievements

Emson Inc. (Bridgeport, CT) was named Supplier of the Year by Mary Kay Cosmetics (Dallas, TX).

August 31, 1997

Labels

Clean, clinical cosmetics

While some cosmetics companies are moving away from a sterile, medicinal look, CAC North America has gone the opposite route with its new A'Cino(TM) skin care line.

August 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Cosmetics labeling at issue in FDA reform

After months of painstaking bipartisan negotiations, legislation to reform the Food and Drug Administration is poised for consideration in both the House and Senate.

August 31, 1997

Closures

Lotion pump

The EuroFlow® is a lotion pump from SeaquistPerfect (Cary, IL). Available in 1.0- or 2.0-cc dosages, the pump is offered with a ribbed- or smooth-wall closure.

July 31, 1997

Cosmetics/Personal care

On-product outsert

Topflight (York, PA) has introduced sealed, multiple-fold, multiple-perforation adhesive information booklets called Infoserts. They're designed to adhere directly on the surface of cosmetics, food, beverage, or over-the-counter medication containers.

July 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Reforming FDA

Congress has picked up the pace on FDA reform, with legislation moving in both the House and Senate. Strongly backed by food manufacturers is language in the Senate bill providing that health claims on food labels would be presumed to be authorized if the claim is based on, and consistent with, findings of a federal health agency or of the National Academy of Sciences.

July 31, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Oral-B, Nickelodeon brush up on oral care graphics

Last month, Belmont, CA-based Oral-B Laboratories introduced a line of collectible tooth brushes and pastes branded with children's cable television network Nickelodeon(TM) and its hit show, "Rugrats." Designed by Kornick Lindsay (Chicago, IL), the colorful packaging/product is part of "a strategic partnership between Oral-B and Nickelodeon in which the packaging helps fight the battle to get kids to brush and make it a better experience," says Sheree Lucas, Oral-B product manager.

July 31, 1997

Flexibles

New look for tubes

Freeman Cosmetics' new Aromatherapy line, introduced in July, includes two packages that are real departures for the Los Angeles-based company.

July 31, 1997

Cosmetics/Personal care

Vendor partnerships on the rise

New research from PMMI shows why more packagers are forging special relationships or partnerships with materials and machinery vendors.

June 30, 1997