Cosmetics/Personal care

Carton bundler shrinks costs

Unilever’s latest shrink bundler for cartoned lotions replaces hand packing of chipboard sleeves to significantly reduce labor and material costs.

September 30, 2002

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Flexible packaging

Technology to take us forward

What are today’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the packaging field saying about packaging technology of the future?

September 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Temporary relief for OTC convenience packs

FDA postpones May deadline for putting Drug Facts label on convenience-size OTC packages.

September 30, 2002

Closures

New package puts child safety in the zone

A multilayer tube and “push and turn” closure is helping CCA Industries of East Rutherford, NJ, meet Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines for products containing lidocaine and dibucaine.

August 31, 2002

Containers

Graphics help new brand break into bath and body

The new “sub-brand” Ohm by Olay from Procter and Gamble, a line of botanical bath and body products, launched this summer. The packaging, with graphics designed by Libby Perszyk Kathman (Cincinnati, OH), ranges from spray bottles to lotion tubes and cartons.

August 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Estée Lauder chairman to address HBA Global Expo

The 10th edition of HBA Global Expo features a Plenary Address by industry luminary Leonard A. Lauder. Some 500 exhibitors will show their wares.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Kauai brings coffee packing in-house

An auger filler mounted over a vf/f/s machine equipped with a thermal-transfer printer was all it took at Kauai Coffee Co. to bring coffee packaging in-house.

August 31, 2002

Sustainable Packaging

Analyze this (sidebar)

Yogurt cups to toothbrushes

August 31, 2002

Sustainability

Analyze this

Yogurt producer Stonyfield Farm analyzes its ‘package delivery systems’ to determine environmental impact.

August 31, 2002

Closures

Tube Council winners

Lise Watier Cosmétiques’ Eau de Mer lotion was judged The Best Overall Tube in the 2001 Tube of the Year Awards conducted by The Tube Council (Montclair, NJ).

July 31, 2002

Contract packaging

Tube Council winner

Tandem Oral Care earned Most Innovative Tube award for its unusual dental floss and flouride product in the 2001 Tube of the Year Awards conducted by The Tube Council (Montclair, NJ).

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Tube packs tap timely trend

Flexible tube packs match consumers’ requirements for on-the-go-anywhere eating for a new wave of portable foods.

July 31, 2002

Containers

2001 Tube Council Awards

Packaging World highlights winners of the Tube Council’s 2001 Tube of the Year awards.

July 31, 2002