Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Healthcare reform could boost use of compliance-prompting packaging

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s Symposium honors Pfizer, Anderson Packaging with its 2009 Package of the Year Award.

May 6, 2010

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Flexibles

U.K.'s Asda lowers carbon footprint 7% in two years

U.K. supermarket slashes emissions by 84,703 tonnes since 2007, despite opening 36 new stores.

May 6, 2010

Beverage

Miller High Life redesign reflects simplicity trend

New-look cartons make the communication cleaner in support of the brand’s ‘common sense’ message to value shoppers.

May 6, 2010

Containers

Category's 'dirty secrets' lead to detergent breakthrough

A jolt of inspiration often can bring about innovation that disrupts a product category when creative teams think about product and package development differently than the competition does.

May 5, 2010

Cosmetics/Personal care

La Senza extends lingerie branding into fragrance packaging

La Senza, a well-known lingerie retailer in Canada and 30 other countries, has extended the brand into fine fragrances with La Seduction.

May 4, 2010

Consumer packaged goods

Expo Pack Mexico debuts a Pharma Pavilion

Some 25,000 customers/buyers from more than 25 countries will attend Expo Pack Mexico and Procesa 2010 when this event runs June 22-25 in Mexico City’s Centro Banamex.

May 4, 2010

Cartons and boxes

P&G optimizes its shelf-ready packaging

Packaging professionals at P&G’s Schwalbach, Germany, office have greatly improved the shelf-ready secondary packs used for feminine care products.

May 4, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Looking for soap-sized molded-pulp clamshell

Scott Carpenter, New Products Division – New Ventures Team, SC Johnson, Packager I am looking for a lead on a molded pulp clamshell for something about the size of a bar of soap.

May 4, 2010

Sustainability

90-day shelf life + sustainability gains = progress at Byrne Dairy

Byrne Dairy has a proven track record in ESL products. Now it’s using a new technology called ‘dry sterilization’ to get 90-day shelf life and get greener at the same time.

May 3, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

New deco tech

Plenty of Packaging World readers remember Arnie Orloski, editor of this magazine before he retired a few years back.

May 3, 2010

Fruits/Vegetables

Flower packaging adhesive patch to revolutionize floral industry in US

Temkin, supplier of new “FloraPatch,” calls technology game-changing.

May 3, 2010

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Nanotechnology to drive pharmaceutical packaging growth

Improved barrier properties in plastics and enhanced functionality will increase demand for ‘nano-enabled’ pharmaceutical packaging.

May 2, 2010

Cosmetics/Personal care

Prospects brighter for aerosol-can market after mixed 2009

After several successive record years, demand for aluminum aerosol cans dipped in 2009, the year of the global economic crisis. Compared with other segments of the packaging industry, though, the sector got off lightly.

April 26, 2010