Detergents/cleaners

'Biohybrid' bottles launched by Australian natural products company

Natures Organics continues history of environmentally conscious packaging, adopting a ‘biohybrid’ resin for laundry and personal care products.

September 24, 2010

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Bakery/Snack

Walmart adding new wrinkle to small-store format

A new urban-store concept will focus on fresh food, and Target is about to disclose its own urban-store plan. Whatever the format, smaller packages will be essential.

September 22, 2010

Sustainability

A million-plus reasons to value the pharmaceutical cold chain

More than 500 attendees and nearly 60 exhibitors energize the 8th Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals Global Forum in Philadelphia.

September 22, 2010

Labels

Barbara Drillings named new marketing communications manager for The RB Dwyer Group

The RB Dwyer Group a full service converter, manufacturer and printer of heat shrink sleeve labels, tamper evident bands and performs, has hired Barbara Drillings as new marketing communications manager.

September 21, 2010

Protective/transport packaging

An inside job

Interior packaging protects the product when exterior packaging can't do it alone.

September 21, 2010

Beverage

Philadelphia welcomes global forum for pharmaceutical cold chain

Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals Global Forum, from Sept. 20-23, focuses on distributing safe medicines internationally, with speakers from the U.S. FDA, end-user manufacturers, and industry associations.

September 20, 2010

Flexibles

OFF THE SHELF: Gatorade's G Series appeals to the collector

Editor Pat Reynolds talks about how Gatorade's G Series uses innovative packaging that appeals to the collector that resides in all of us.

September 17, 2010

Labels

Extended-text label spices up sales of seasoning blends

A new peel-back, three-panel label for a line of Club House brand One Step Seasoning Blends from McCormick Canada, Inc. has uncovered more than additional label space.

September 15, 2010

Beverage

Slashing C02 permeation testing times for plastic bottles

A new white paper from MOCON describes an effective, non-destructive way of determining, in just hours after a bottle has been conditioned, the amount of CO2 permeating out of a bottle and the expected shelf-life of its contents.

September 13, 2010

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

White paper explores advancements in water vapor permeation testing in ultra-barrier films

This journal-quality white paper from MOCON provides a thorough analysis of the issues and offers a solution for measuring water vapor transmission rates in ultra barrier-films that protect such products as organic light emitting diodes (OLED).

September 13, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Teaching retorts how to communicate

Operations management in all types of manufacturing is under constant pressure to continually achieve efficiency improvements.

September 13, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Automation suppliers target processing and packaging

Need a reminder of how increasingly intertwined processing and packaging have become?

September 13, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Best-in-class manufacturing ops

At Heineken South Africa and Microsoft Europe, efficiency-minded suppliers help make processing and packaging logical extensions of each other.

September 13, 2010