Contract packaging

Rx packaging: The view from Italy

Join Packaging World's Technical Editor Rick Lingle in a recap of an early March tour of pharmaceutical companies in Italy’s "Packaging Valley."

February 29, 2004

Cosmetics/Personal care: Page 88

Flexible packaging

FPA's 'highest achievement' winners

Winners of the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards demonstrate the impact of technology on the form and function of flexible packaging.

February 29, 2004

Closures

White Rain turns to yellow bottle

Diamond Products Co., Brandon, FL, has turned its high-density polyethylene bottles from silver to soft yellow.

February 29, 2004

Sustainable Packaging

Q&A: Supporting sustainable packaging

John Delfausse is the vice president of package development at Aveda, a division of New York, NY-based Estée Lauder. The cosmetics maker is committed to supporting sustainable packaging (see story, p. 81). Here, Delfausse addresses additional issues related to packaging and the environment.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Avon makes youthful mark.

Avon calls on creative packaging with a touch of whimsy to drawyouthful-minded consumers to its new 250-item ‘mark.’ line.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Double wrapping improves Cardinal's health

Healthcare provider Cardinal Health upgrades its surgical kit operations with new shrink-wrapping equipment.

February 29, 2004

Sustainability

Packagers emphasize environment and economics

Packaging professionals from Estée Lauder/Aveda, Hewlett-Packard, and Bacardi Bottling describe how their companies view packaging that is environmentally sustainable.

February 29, 2004

Flexible packaging

Flexible winners strike gold

Winners of the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards demonstrate the impact of technology on the form and function of flexible packaging.

February 29, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Alloyd introduces new generation Aergo sealing machine

The Alloyd Company has introduced an entirely new blister sealing machine that combines ergonomic enhancements with a unique process that enables it to seal both plastic-to-plastic and blister-to-card packages.

February 29, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Controls integration can boost supply chain efficiencies

In researching a March Packaging World story about how controls integration and information technologies can improve supply chain efficiencies, I wound up gathering more information than I could fit in the designated space.

January 31, 2004

Sustainability

Driving the use of renewable resources

Aveda's John Delfausse offers advice for those involved in advancing the use of renewable resources in their companies’ packaging operations.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Terrorism concerns infiltrate packaging

New homeland security program sends packagers scurrying for protective and tracking technologies.

January 31, 2004

Cosmetics/Personal care

Security needs in a digital age

With each passing year, marking and coding technology used in the packaging field has grown more digital in nature. What that means fundamentally is replacing a physical object—metal or rubber type, a printing plate, a printing matte—with a print "head" or "engine" or "cartridge" that responds to computer-driven software to imprint whatever message is called for.

December 31, 2003