Beverage

Salary levels rise, as do job-security concerns

Packaging World’s fourth salary survey reveals that packaging professionals are bringing home the bacon—and plenty of it—despite economic uncertainties.

August 31, 2005

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Cosmetics/Personal care

Salary levels rise, as do job-security concerns (sidebar)

Survey methodology

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Low-profile, soft-grip package opens new markets

O’Keeffe’s Co., Inc., Sisters, OR, has tapped more deeply into target markets for its hand and foot crème balm products by introducing alternative packaging for the hardware/home center channel.

August 31, 2005

Closures

Plastic brings weight and cost reductions

A plastic-for-glass replacement on a line of high-end cosmetics products sold by Maria Galland of France won DuPont silver for Ileos. Cost savings of up to 20% depending on size were achieved when the switch was made.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Hospital sterilization pouch

Autopak® is a three-ply structure from Alcan Packaging-Medical Flexibles Americas for in-hospital sterlization of products such as medical trays used for surgery.

August 31, 2005

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Convenient freezer-to-oven turkey packaging

Jennie-O Foods, Willmar, MN, is marketing its new “Oven Ready” fresh-frozen turkey products in a freezer-to-oven, easy-open bag system developed by Curwood, Inc.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Multilayer coex blown film

The DuPont competition’s judges admired this dog food bag made by Kunshan Jiapu Packaging Co. of China for its high-impact graphics and its improved seal strength.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)

New drug bottle ‘Targets’ safety concerns

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)

Futuristic drug-delivery patches go ‘high-tech’

August 31, 2005

Protective/transport packaging

Big Blue saves big bucks on packaging

Integrated Product Development process substantially improves IBM’s supply chain cost and performance efficiencies.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart Packaging: The sounds of print

Datasound has devised a way of saving sounds, speech, music, or other digital data on paper for later retrieval.

August 31, 2005

Cartoning

Kraft's video data recorder

Kraft has developed ROME, a ‘black box’ diagnostic tool for packaging machinery that combines data collection and video from two cameras.

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Thermal inkjet-- crisp codes in real world plants at affordable costs

HP technology runs in tough environments and delivers system savings from uptime. Simple operation lets line operators handle setups.

August 31, 2005