Other Packaged Goods: Page 198

Flexible packaging

Packagers 'heated' over gas

Senate energy tax incentives would help on natural gas prices, but not immediately. So packagers will have to cope with high prices.

July 31, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

Semi-automatic auger filler

Per-Fil offers the Per-Fil Micro-Filler designed for use in the food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, chemical, and cosmetic industries.

July 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Sorting through a life

The month of June has had an unusual quality to it this year. On one hand, we’ve seen the explosion of sales of former President Clinton’s new book, My Life, despite the fact that most reviewers have been rather critical of it.

July 31, 2004

Dairy

The wrap up: Now that's l-o-n-g shelf life

British archeologists have unearthed an ancient two-piece metal canister that’s believed to hold a beauty ointment that traces back to the Roman period in London, A.D. 43 to 410, according to a recent report in National Geographic.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Cal Poly's face wash packets

This theoretical development from Cal Poly packaging students is for a convenient, single-used packet of face wash called So Fresh & So Clean that’s ideal for travelers.

June 30, 2004

Consumer packaged goods

Checklist to reduce changeover time by 30%

Changeover expert Jerry Claunch of Claunch & Associates shares 18 years of changeover improvements with the checklist below that promises to yield a 30% improvement in your current changeover setups.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

"Go deeper" on RFID

“Get your toe in the water, get used to it, and then go deeper.” Those words of advice about radio-frequency identification are from J. Michael Wallace, director, process and package development, Ross Products Div. of Abbott Laboratories, makers of nutritional products including Ensure and Similac.

June 30, 2004

Flexibles

NatureWorks wins food-contact approval in Japan

NatureWorks™ PLA, a plastic resin made from corn, has won approval for use in food-contact applications from the Japanese Hygienic Olefin & Styrene Plastics Assn., that country’s equivalent to the Food & Drug Administration in the United States.

June 30, 2004

Protective/transport packaging

Appliance maker chooses Sonoco as package partner

BSH Home Appliances Corp., Huntington Beach, CA, has entered into a five-year packaging supply agreement with Sonoco.

June 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

A molded-pulp first in cosmetics

When New York-based Estée Lauder’s Aveda unit introduced its Uruku Lipstick a little over a year ago, the firm’s commitment to environmentally responsible packaging led to what is essentially a refillable case.

June 30, 2004

Labels

Anniversary makeover

Shikatani Lacroix Brandesign developed a new look for the 2003 vintage of the Hillebrand family of wines in conjunction with the winemaker’s 25th anniversary.

June 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Innovation Lab Web site launched

Eastman Chemical Co. has launched the Eastman Innovation Lab Web site (www.eastmaninnovationlab.com), an interactive, community-based resource for designers and brand owners.

June 30, 2004