Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings

Olive oil gets personal

Online Boutique allows visitors to custom-design oil and vinegar products and packaging, with 30 label templates available that can be personalized with images and copy.

November 30, 2012

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Closures

Pack Expo 2012: Dispensing cap activated by consumers

Universal dosage and dispensing cap from Tap The Cap can be filled with powdered ingredients so consumers can conveniently dispense them into bottled beverages.

November 29, 2012

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical f/f/s machine runs PE film

Vertical form/fill/seal machine from TNA is especially suitable for use with PE film, which brings TNA more aggressively into the fresh produce arena.

November 25, 2012

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Emballage 2012: Day three

A seven-layer coextruded Le Creuset look-alike, a PET jam jar for a Marks & Spencer brand of jam that can withstand thermal processing at 95 degrees C, some impressively crisp printing of QR codes on shrink bundling film, and a tool-change twist on a blow/fill system.

November 22, 2012

Flexibles

Bagging unpardoned presidential turkey

Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s the vacuum bag used to protect the presidential family's turkey.

November 21, 2012

Sustainability

Weis Markets to use 100% recyclable PET MAP trays for meat

Working with custom thermoformer, the grocery chain embarks on development of first closed-loop recyclable meat tray.

November 19, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé reveals the math and science of sustainability

Some smart tools and a 20-year commitment to green ideals span benefits from lightweighting, recycling and bioplastics, to a smaller global carbon footprint.

November 19, 2012

Beverage

How Wrigley and others prevent package recalls

Did you know that a pack of Orbit gum has at least 13 distinct components? Here's how Wrigley and others address recall risks from chemical migration, off-odors and other hard-to-spot factors.

November 19, 2012

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister packaging system wows attendees

At the Starview booth at Pack Expo, the FAB8-1418 fully automatic blister packaging system was shown packaging fishing line in the MWV Natralock format.

November 19, 2012

Cosmetics/Personal care

One controller governs 92 axes of motion

What do you get when you deploy 92 servo motors on a tube-filling machine? At Norden, a part of the Coesia Group, you get a machine that fills 850 toothpaste tubes/min.

November 19, 2012

Beverage

Absolut’s Frïs recognized as winner by Glass Packaging Institute

Bottle design resembles large shard of ice and is inspired by the brand’s Nordic roots.

November 16, 2012

Flexible packaging

Unique spouted fitment for aseptic pouch

From IPN is an unusual spouted fitment on a 200-mL standup pouch that lets consumers drink without spillage. The foil-based package is made on a Volpak form/fill seal system with rollstock from Constantia.

November 15, 2012

Thermoform/fill/seal

Cup thermoform/fill/seal with in-mold labeling

Arcil form/fill/seal system from Synerlink is especially suitable for yogurt, and it incorporates in-mold labeling yet occupies a remarkably small footprint.

November 15, 2012