Cosmetics/Personal care

Switching from manual to automatic labeling operations

Skin care products company spruces up packaging efficiencies with new in-line pressure-sensitive label application equipment.

October 7, 2006

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Flexible packaging

The incredible flexible pouch

Economies of scale drive pouch costs down, while shelf appeal and convenience features deliver on the marketer's need to differentiate.

October 6, 2006

Closures

Detergent packs roll onto shelves

Packed inside an unusual conical sleeve is a clamshell or two used as both mold and container for this new kind of laundry detergent.

October 6, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Paul Vandenberg, creative director at i4Design (www.desi4n.com), a package design firm, offers the following worthwhile exercise: Ask yourself and your package design team, “What if?” The challenge is to use great packaging ideas being introduced elsewhere not as a template for your own projects, but as inspiration for what could be for your products.

October 5, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

UHF benefits updated

A recent white paper does much to dispel lingering myths about what UHF can't do, and does it authoritatively. It makes a compelling case for UHF­­—over HF—by companies that know the technology inside out.

October 5, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Eco-friendly film-card pack

Applications are imminent for this 'new generation' carded package that combines a printed die-cut card with a corn-based PLA film.

October 3, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

The wrap-up: A wrap rage maverick

What annoys Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban more than NBA referees? Product packaging.

October 2, 2006

Cosmetics/Personal care

Packaging takes the stage for Beiersdorf

“Packaging is the most important instrument of brand management. An attractive packaging design puts a product on stage.”

October 2, 2006

Cosmetics/Personal care

Measuring innovation capability

Key measures used by The Estee Lauder Companies to qualify contract packagers' design capabilities are applicable for many packagers and marketers.

October 2, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

PIAB USA Inc: Oval suction cups for difficult applications

PIAB Vacuum Products, a leading manufacturer of industrial vacuum products and components, introduces new DURAFLEX oval suction cups as a solution for difficult applications.

September 22, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The looming impact of integration, WiFi, RFID

Technological advances have already driven dramatic improvements in manufacturing. But according to Sudipta Bhattacharya, a senior vice president at SAP Labs LLC, based in Irving, Texas, the best is still to come. What’s more, it’s just over the next horizon.

September 19, 2006

Labeling

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: New PacDrive™ Aseptic SCL servo module in stainless steel

New variant of the popular beverage capping and labeling servo module for use in sterile environments, provides resistance to cleaning agents and IP 67 rating.

September 15, 2006

Flexibles

Pouch-packed liquid foundation make-up

DuPont Awards’ 19th editionThe 19th annual DuPont Awards Competition once again shines the spotlight on innovation in packaging. From 135 entries, 26 packs received awards.

August 31, 2006