Flexibles

Two-piece tray delivers surgical stents

For a new self-expanding surgical stent, Medtronic Vascular selects compact new thermoform design to make the product easy to unpack.

February 29, 2004

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Closures

Retooling hardware packaging

Our annual look at hardware packaging ranges from the cute (fancy seed pails) to the creatively functional (driveway sealer in an easy-pour bucket).

January 31, 2004

Detergents/cleaners

Club store packaging and beyond (sidebar)

Who calls the shots?

December 31, 2003

Detergents/cleaners

Transfer print 'pops' prototype boxes

Private-label packager Huish Detergents, Salt Lake City, UT, is vertically integrated, operating its own printing presses and machinery to convert corrugated into detergent boxes that it fills.

November 30, 2003

Converting equipment

Henkel cuts fees with new Sil package

The Henkel Group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has cut the costs of packaging fees on its Sil-brand stain-removing laundry powder by using a new package with a moisture-vapor-barrier built into the box.

November 30, 2003

Detergents/cleaners

Color 'caps' new jars for detergent capsules

A striking new PET jar, designed and blow-molded by RPC Containers Blackburn, is now serving up capsules of Persil liquid laundry detergent for Lever Fabergé, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England.

November 30, 2003

Beverage

Efficiency tops 90% at Edna Valley Vineyard

A first-of-its-kind accumulation table boosts bottling efficiency by 20% and helps attract new business.See video

November 30, 2003

Detergents/cleaners

Outlaw line shrinks from aluminum

Houston-based Pennzoil-Quaker State is in the middle of a significant shift to plastic bottles and SleeveCo full-body shrink-sleeve labels for its line of Outlaw car care products.

October 31, 2003

Detergents/cleaners

Time to market 'Vanish'es

To get on the bandwagon of oxygen-action cleaners, Reckitt Benckiser selected polypropylene cups, injection-molded and decorated by RPC Containers Blackburn for its new Vanish Oxi Action.

October 31, 2003

Containers

Pipeline: Improving productivity, or flawed measurements?

This is being written as many of us in packaging prepare for one of the many fall meetings and shows, whether it’s Pack Expo Las Vegas, the TAPPI Corrugated Expo and Conference in Dallas, a PET conference in Atlanta, or even the tag and label makers annual meeting in Boca Raton, FL, just to name a few.

October 31, 2003

Containers

Wisk bottle color breaks the mold

Wisk bottle color breaks the mold Unilever selected pearlized blue color for liquid detergent bottles by working closely with its color supplier and blow molders.

October 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Glaxo rolls out three more dentifrice innovations

Continuing its roll-out of new dentifrice products, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Moon Township, PA, has now introduced a toothpaste and floss combo, Aquafresh Floss 'N'Cap.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Stainless washdown conveyors

AquaPruf™ conveyors, a just-launched line of all stainless-steel conveyors engineered for the washdown and sanitary markets, are suitable for food, pharma, medical, and personal-care products industries.

September 30, 2003