Closures

OFF THE SHELF: Great Lakes Cheese goes recloseable

Great Lakes Cheese of Hiram, OH, has a uniquely consumer-friendly and recloseable package concept for sliced cheese. Pat Reynolds visited their Plymouth, WI, plant recently and demonstrated how the pack opens and recloses.

March 1, 2011

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

White paper discusses advances in roll-fed extended content labeling

White paper from Quality Assured Label explains the recent development of roll-fed extended content labels (ECLs), also called booklet labels. Covers benefits such as the ability to increase content area by up to 200%, utilize existing materials and labeling equipment, and maintain current production line speeds.

March 1, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

SunChips relaunched in quieter compostable bag

‘Rubber-like adhesive’ said to reduce the bag’s crinkling sound by 15 decibals.

February 28, 2011

Bakery/Snack

Fighting counterfeit drugs in Africa

Free consumer text messaging service targets counterfeit pharmaceutical market that causes at least 700,000 deaths per year globally.

February 25, 2011

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Multivac receives NMA Supplier of the Year honor

At a ceremony held as during its 65th annual MeatExpo conference, the NMA (National Meat Association) awarded its 2011 Supplier of the Year award to Multivac, Inc.

February 24, 2011

Sustainability

U.K. bottler expands use of dry lubrication

Aston Manor Brewery, the UK's largest independent cider producer, has signed a four-year deal with a supplier of dry lubrication service for three bottling lines at Aston Manor's plant in Birmingham, England.

February 24, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Heinz to launch its ketchup in Coca-Cola's PlantBottle beginning this summer

The iconic ketchup company estimates that it will introduce 120 million 20-oz PlantBottle packages in 2011 into the U.S.

February 24, 2011

Flexibles

Plastic strapping and sustainability

Here's a look at how plastic strapping fares in the era of sustainability.

February 23, 2011

Flexibles

Xpedx launches new North American network of package design centers

Xpedx has announced a new network of 7 Package Design Centers with the opening of centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Rochester, NY, and the expansion of existing design centers in Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Juarez, Mexico, metropolitan areas.

February 22, 2011

Additives, coatings & inks

Recycling of nonbottle rigid plastics jumps nearly 50% in two years

Growth attributed to reclaimers’ increased willingness to accept mixed plastics, greater access by households to collection of these plastics, and industry collaboration.

February 22, 2011

Bakery/Snack

OFF THE SHELF: Safeway scores with own-brand salty snacks

Jim George shows a good example of an increasingly frequent development: a private-label package that out-innovates the national brands.

February 17, 2011

Flexible packaging

Toward improved heat-seal performance

If you've signed on to a solid approach, your packages are being sealed and delivered with good consistency.

February 15, 2011

Recycling

PET wine bottle takes off with Air Transat

Canadian supplier of fine wines Societe de Vin Internationale launches a 1-L PET barrier bottle for its wine brands that quickly takes flight with Air Transat airlines.

February 14, 2011