Secondary Packaging

Kliklok Topload Cartoning Line packaging donuts in hood cover-style cartons

Kliklok topload cartoning machines provide the versatility and positive control necessary for special cartons.

January 12, 2012

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Containers

Pail provides convenience for inconvenient weather

KelKay employs packaging to give its U.K. customers an easy way to handle snow and ice.

January 12, 2012

Cosmetics/Personal care

Panasonic personal grooming tools return to Target in new packaging

Panasonic's line of feminine power hand-held personal tools--encompassing a three-head razor, a four-head razor, and an epilator--recently returned to Target stores in newly redesigned packaging.

January 10, 2012

Material handling

Time/temperature-monitoring system for fresh-cut fruit

Blue Skies employs RFID technology for shipments of fresh-cut fruit from African fields to U.K. tables.

January 9, 2012

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

JBS enhances specialty beef lines with new easy-open package

Meat processor uses new bag that enhances employee and product safety, improves back-of-house efficiencies, and reduces product waste.

January 6, 2012

Bakery/Snack

Higher-barrier plastics will help grow flexible packaging market

Flexible packaging benefits from a widening range of new products being developed by brand owners in an increasingly competitive consumer marketplace.

January 5, 2012

Flexibles

Chinese dairy introduces a new kind of aseptic pouch

Aimed at young people constantly on the lookout for the next cool thing, Ecolean Air Aseptic is a single-serve pouch that makes some strong environmental claims.

January 5, 2012

Consumer packaged goods

Fighting fakes: a never-ending battle

Internet purchasing and global sourcing add complexity to anti-counterfeiting efforts throughout the supply chain.

January 4, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pressure-sensitive label applicator handing/attitude chart

Download this chart from Label-Aire to determine applicator handing (right or left) and applicator attitudes (orientation or location of controls) for pressure-sensitive labeling applications.

December 19, 2011

Dairy

White paper examines operating costs for automatic vs. manual p-s labeling

White paper from Label-Aire examines pressure-sensitive labeling applications, and makes the case for lower operating costs and increased flexibility for fully automatic labelers.

December 19, 2011

Filling/capping, dry

See the PharmaPack-US high-speed capper in action

The PCL-15FT is a versatile press-on and screw-on automatic capper designed for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical, food, beverage, health/beauty, and confection industries. Its automatic rejection feature rejects inverted caps to provide continuous product throughput and features speeds up to 150 bpm.

December 19, 2011

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Nair hair remover in an easy-open clamshell

Anne Marie Mohan examines a Nair brand hair remover product from Church & Dwight whose primary package has ergonomics written all over it and whose secondary package is a clear plastic clamshell with notable easy-open features.

December 19, 2011

Containers

Mr. Peanut adorns Planters holiday tin

Planters holiday tin for 2011 uses an illustrative format to weave an original holiday narrative featuring Mr. Peanut and a cast of characters that inhabit the world of Planters.

December 16, 2011