Sustainability

New UV ink tech brings success to brew bottle

Thomas Creek Brewery’s cheeky Up the Creek microbrew becomes the first to use a new environmentally friendly UV-curable ink process for direct print onto its glass bottles.

October 31, 2009

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Beverage

Wins and losses at the shelf: What drives purchase intent?

10% of package redesigns spike sales and 20% spur declines. What do the winners have in common? They create visual disruption and entice shoppers to reconsider a brand.

October 31, 2009

Protective/transport packaging

Cold chain products

October 31, 2009

Sustainability

Sustainability upgrade for milk in PET

A world’s first: The French dairy company LSDH is launching a lightweight PET bottle for shelf-stable UHT milk. ‘Dry’ sterilization saves significant amounts of water.

October 30, 2009

Beverage

Healthcare Packaging broadens live event for princeton

October 30, 2009

Beverage

Military cold chain combats global fronts

October 30, 2009

Prepared Foods

Manufacturers bear ultimate cold-chain responsibility

Technological advances made during the past 10 years bode well for temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products, but a complex distribution chain can still be something of a “black hole.”

October 30, 2009

Additives, coatings & inks

Godiva goes green while printing gold

Godiva trims more than 30% of its printing costs by switching from an imported specialty paper to a foil metallic coated paper. Sustainability gains are impressive.

October 30, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Bottled water alive and well in Disney World

International crowd still opts for convenience

October 30, 2009

Flexibles

Engaging the customer in green packaging

October 29, 2009

Flexibles

Equipment innovations support sustainable packaging goals

This year’s Pack Expo Las Vegas (Oct. 5-7) was abuzz with sustainable packaging advances and introductions, not only in the area of materials, but also in machinery.

October 29, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

A time to burn?

There was a time not so long ago when lightweighting of food and beverage packages was driven primarily by an interest in cost savings.

October 29, 2009

Labels

Is "smart packaging" just a dumb idea?

Just to be clear, there’s “dumb” packaging (just a box, no matter how pretty the graphics), “self-aware” packaging (with Electronic Article Surveillance/EAS tags), and “smart” packaging (with RFID tags).

October 29, 2009