Recycling

Expert analysis

September 3, 2009

Industries: Page 377

Cosmetics/Personal care

Sound off!

September 3, 2009

Additives, coatings & inks

New duty to report dangerous foods

Starting September 8, 2009, food companies have an important new legal obligation: They have to report to FDA when they discover a food has a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or other animals.

September 1, 2009

Tamper-evident machinery

Candy boxes protect organoleptics

Fazer Confectionery, Helsinki, Finland, is a leading Nordic manufacturer of chocolate products, chewing gums, and other confections.

August 31, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Some bad news, some good news

So I’m talking to this crackerjack controls engineering guru about next year’s Packaging Automation Forum*, and by the end of our conversation it hits me: The U.S. manufacturing sector is cost-cutting itself into a heap of trouble. I know, in an economy where consumers who once engaged in aspirational spending have now shifted to desperational spending, being lean is what it’s all about these days.

August 31, 2009

Cosmetics/Personal care

Kit package helps patients recover

New XTRAC® Laser Post-Procedure Kit is sold to doctors, who sell the treatment kits to their patients.

August 30, 2009

Sustainability

Naked Juice's 'reNEWabottle' is 100% RPET

A new clear juice bottle for Naked Juice’s beverages is expected to save 8.1 million pounds of virgin plastic annually.

August 30, 2009

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Drum discharging/feeding system

Material Transfer’s 180 Degree Rotation Drum Discharging and Feeding System safely inverts drums containing corrosive, dusty, hygroscopic powders then meters the materials into an existing process.

August 30, 2009

Containers

Beer can graphics makeover

French brewery adopts new look for its flagship beer cans.

August 30, 2009

Tamper-evident machinery

Vitamin water launches in aluminum bottles

Live Young Forever Health and Wellness (LYF) has introduced Live Young Forever Citrus, a vitamin enhanced water.

August 30, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

McCormick Distilling announces PET Bottles with 15% PCR

Amcor PET Packaging forms an innovative partnership with McCormick Distilling Co. to introduce a 15% PCR addition to McCormick PET bottles.

August 19, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Wine-box packaging line speeds sake filling

Centuries-old Japanese sake company Gekkeikan Sake invests in modern packaging technology to handle growing demand for its restaurant-bound bag-in-box product.

August 17, 2009

Contract Packaging

Secondary packaging: CPG companies that are in it plan to do more of it

25% of survey respondents who already use co-packers for work such as display cartons and sleeved multipacks will increase their volume. But quality, cost, and timeliness challenges remain.

August 5, 2009