Consumer packaged goods

Tylenol recall points to pallets

Trace amounts of a chemical that treats wooden pallets used to transport and store the drug’s packaging shoulders the blame, according to one source.

March 6, 2010

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Contract Packaging

Does perceived product blandness owe to the value chain or a poor understanding of customization?

One author makes the case that economies of scale largely are to blame for the lack of remarkable products. But an educator who’s been in the trenches has another view.

March 5, 2010

Flexibles

OFF THE SHELF: Flexible packaging flexes its muscles

Packaging World Editor Pat Reynolds shows two examples--a full-body shrink label and a high-barrier clear pouch--of what flexible packaging can accomplish.

March 5, 2010

Cosmetics/Personal care

Nanotechnology to grow in packaging

In HBA, household care, packaging, and leisure wear and equipment, the global market for nanotechnology is expected to reach $4,117 million by 20115.

March 5, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

The value of track and trace

If you’re a food manufacturer and you’re involved in a food ingredient recall, how challenging will it be to trace back which lots might have contained the ingredient in question?

March 5, 2010

Recycling

New compostable soda cups and lids launch at Burgerville

Sustainable-focused QSR moves closer to its goal of 85% diversion of waste from landfills with its use of a new compostable beverage cup and lid.

March 4, 2010

Sustainability

Packaging, medical devices critical to emergency room procedures

HealthPack 2010 conference sessions report that packages, devices must work in life or death situations. Meanwhile, ER nurses evaluate medical device packages.

March 3, 2010

Beverage

V-8 Fusion rolls out single-serve 8-oz. slim cans

Popular flavors Pomegranate Blueberry and Banana Strawberry will also be available in 24 packs of 11.5 oz., multi-serve cans at select club stores.

March 3, 2010

Closures

Berlin Packaging acquires All-Pak, Inc.

Berlin Packaging, full-service supplier of plastic, glass, and metal containers and closures, announces it has completed its acquisition of All-Pak, Inc., a Pittsburgh, PA-based packaging supplier.

March 2, 2010

Closures

SC Johnson makes ingredients transparent for Hispanic consumers in US

Spanish speaking consumers now have a new website where they can get full disclosure of ingredients. By 2012, package labels will help drive them there.

March 2, 2010

Containers

Portable "Sushi Popper" ultimate convenience food?

Uses for tubes have grown in the past few years, but this package may smell a little fishy!

February 26, 2010

Beverage

Going below the surface of the boxed-wine debate

One argument is that some consumers equate boxed packaging with poor-quality wine. But is the problem the package or the quality of the wine to begin with?

February 25, 2010

Labels

OFF THE SHELF: Cool smoothie cups from DelMonte

Senior editor Anne Marie Mohan takes a look at a clever two-cup combo where the cups are unitized by a colorful shrink-sleeve label.

February 25, 2010