Cosmetics/Personal care

Two-piece cans update nail drying product

In January 2007, IQ Products Company, Houston, TX, introduced Envi-brand Salon Professional Nail Enamel Dryer packaged in two-piece, 9-oz, PET-coated steel cans from DS Containers (www.dscontainers.com), an affiliate of Japan’s Daiwa Can Co. The aerosol cans with sloped shoulders and necks are produced and decorated via four-color litho print on a white base at DSC’s new coil-to-can operation in Batavia, OH.

March 8, 2007

Other Packaged Goods: Page 156

Additives, coatings & inks

And just like that, packaging for irradiation is broadened

There may never have been a technology quite like irradiation of foods and packaging. Legal clearances for its use keep expanding, but commercial acceptance of it doesn’t appear to be keeping pace.

March 8, 2007

Household/Automotive

A role for robots

Senior director of operations Jack vanderDeen of Siptop Packaging talks about robotic solutions implemented recently at Siptop’s Mississauga, Canada, plant (see www.packworld/view-22569).

March 8, 2007

Labeling

'Natural' claims on RTE food packaging

USDA has a beef with some ready-to-eat deli packages. Companies are being forced to ditch “natural” copy on packaging.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Detergents/cleaners

Ecolab's club store cleaner earns NACD award

Ecolab's bundled cleaning package sold at Sam’s wins NACD's top honors for 2007.

March 2, 2007

Protective/transport packaging

Bad packaging: Consumer Reports' 2007 Oyster Awards

The magazine welcomes new inductees into its packaging 'hall of shame' for hard-to-open packaging.

February 28, 2007

Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

High-visibility packaging demand climbing

U.S. demand for high-visibility packaging, including clamshells and blister packs, is expected to increase 5.1 percent annually to $8.5 billion in 2010.

February 22, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

SEW-Eurodrive USA: Decentralized control

SEW-Eurodrive has introduced MOVIFIT® Field Integrated Technology, the next generation in intelligent decentralized control.

February 10, 2007

Detergents/cleaners

P&G gains throughput plus cost savings

A recent switch from pallet wrapping to application of a stretch hood lets P&G cut costs while eliminating a bottleneck in its paper tissue packaging operation.

February 9, 2007

Flexible packaging

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologicals/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers.

February 9, 2007

Contract packaging

Multi-dimensional branding: Paste emphasizes attributes, store environment

Recognizing the need for a novel approach to introduce yet another product in the whitening segment, a Manhattan-based cosmetic dentist focused on brand name, package color, and the right distribution channel.

February 9, 2007