Cosmetics/Personal care

Nivea selects soft touch for shaving foam

Beiersdorf AG of Hamburg, Germany, has selected a special "soft-touch" feel for the actuator head of the dispenser of its Nivea shaving foam and gels.

May 31, 2003

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Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: PackML report

Elau is helping packaging machinery builders and users make the most of the PackML state model. A free PackML CD and PackML workshop series show how to use the state model, implement it in IEC 61131-3 standard languages, and gain access to valuable OEE and MES information in a standardized way.

May 31, 2003

Dairy

Cartons help 'nourish noggins'

In August, children’s book publisher and distributor Scholastic Inc. will begin a “Milk for Bones, Books for Brains...It’s Udderly Brilliant” program with school foodservice directors and dairy processors throughout the United States.

May 31, 2003

Consumer packaged goods

IoPP offers Fundamentals courses

The Institute of Packaging Professionals’ Fundamentals of Packaging Technology courses will be held in Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, and Los Angeles.

May 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Q&A: Unilever pursues machine reliability

Recently, Packaging World had a chance to sit down with David Atherton, director of engineering for Unilever Home & Personal Care, North America. Atherton is responsible for packaging equipment engineering activities in the division’s eight North American factories. He is also the maintenance “champion” across these facilities.

May 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Manual on anticounterfeiting, no; useful compendium, yes

Whether a book or an anthology, this volume on pharmaceutical anticounterfeiting is both interesting and valuable, but flawed.

May 31, 2003

Closures

Reestablishing a brand

In order to reestablish itself as a skincare innovator, Olay assigned design and branding agency Webb Scarlett for its Daily Facials and Total Effects line of anti-aging skincare products.

May 31, 2003

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Pipeline: The many 'phaces' of pharma expenditures

Pharmaceutical manufacturers—and the images they project to their various publics—today seem to be confusing at best. Like other product manufacturers, they have become global businesses, doing business worldwide in a variety of ways.

May 31, 2003

Consumer packaged goods

Research drives Philips package graphics

Consumer research—done in stores—shines a light on what consumers want from lightbulb packaging.

May 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Study: Machinery purchases should increase

Modest increase expected in 2003 machinery purchases, says PMMI study. Demand expected to rise despite geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

May 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

May 31, 2003

Flexibles

NPE 2003: A passion for packaging

The latest advances in film extrusion, thermoforming, injection molding, and much more will be on display at the National Plastics Exposition June 23-27.

May 31, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Induction sealing now retrofittable for conduction applications

Are you looking for a better way to seal containers without a cap? If the answer is yes, Enercon has some important news for you.

May 31, 2003