Contract Packaging

How to achieve cost savings via Continuous Improvement

With rising commodity prices, and increasing margin pressure, cost savings have never been more important than they are today.

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Contract packaging

Observations from the Contract Packaging Association's annual meeting

Experts tell contract packager and CPG company attendees to get to the point quickly, that creating tension is healthy, and that good listening skills carry high value.

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Contract Packaging

Crunch time on the 'fuzzy front end'

Retailers and consumers are placing more demand than ever on the need for variable production capacity, but CPG companies are struggling with contingency planning.

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Contract packaging

Companies

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Closures

Crown Partners with Clemson for Packaging Education Program

Crown Holdings, Inc. the world leader in metal packaging technology, has become the first corporate “Partner in Packaging,” a new initiative of the Packaging Science Program at Clemson University.

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Cartons and boxes

GSK's new Sensodyne pack bubbles with tactile feel

Oral care packs utilize a 3D feature that simulates the effect of looking at a life-like model of a tooth, close-up images that describe product benefits, and a bevelled carton edge.

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Contract Packaging

Request Foods launching skillet meal co-packing program

Request Foods, Holland, MI, a contract packager of frozen entrees, side dishes, and specialty items, is adding skillet meals to the company’s product lineup.

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Flexible packaging

U.S. pharma packaging market to grow 5.5% annually through 2014

Demand for pharmaceutical packaging in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) will increase 5.5% annually to $18.4 billion in 2014, according to a Freedonia Group Inc. report on pharmaceutical packaging prospects.

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Contract Packaging

Walmart's answer to dollar stores has implications for CP

The accompanying photo shows a bustling Walmart distribution center. It’s going to get even busier and a bit more complex.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Industry Watch

A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

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Flexibles

Sustainable packaging: eco-friendly and unbreakable

’Ethical consumerism’ further emphasizes desire for sustainable packaging that reduces materials without compromising package stability.

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Sustainability

Bottle made of OCC and ONP

Holding 50 oz of laundry detergent, this molded-pulp bottle—recyclable and compostable—is actually a shell with a LDPE liner inside that holds the product.

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Conveying & accumulation

Bucket elevator sweetens chocolate egg production

Madelaine Chocolate’s product distribution system permits the smooth handling of 36% more product while ensuring considerably less damage to the chocolate pieces being wrapped in foil.

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