Secondary Packaging

Shrink wrappers shrink costs, expand efficiencies

Meat processor doubles shipper case preparation speeds, cuts materials and labor costs, and reduces freight weights by installing two medium-volume shrink wrap machines.

January 8, 2009

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Sustainability

Sustainability News & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

January 8, 2009

Labels

DPT, Med-Health Pharma shed light on authentication solution

A pervasive air of secrecy makes trends in brand protection tough to track. But the following two pharmaceutical-based authentication efforts by DPT Laboratories and Med-Health Pharma shed light on some of the solutions being explored to combat counterfeiters, diverters, and gray marketers who appear to be broadening their horizons. (Alan Green, logistics director for DPT Laboratories, will discuss how the contract developer, manufacturer, and packager is implementing brand-protection strategies at the Brand-Protection Packaging Forum May 5, 2009 in Chicago.)

January 8, 2009

Cartoning

Perfecting pasta packaging

A line at Barilla's greenfield plant in Avon, NY, features a cartoner and two case packers.

January 7, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Costco snack pack operations

Costco’s in-house production for tubed snacks relies on three f/f/s units and four pick-and-place robots to produce a 24-count variety pack.

January 7, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Installs and start-ups

Advice from packaging machinery experts on what makes for a great install and a smooth startup.

January 7, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Reusable packaging helps to reduce overall impacts

Most people who delve deeply into sustainability come to the conclusion that all aspects of sustainability, from source extraction to the reduction of waste, are interconnected.

January 7, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Small-footprint bottle accumulation/conveying

Innovative loop conveyor with integrated single-filer requires minimum floor space and eliminates back pressure.

January 7, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Risk management

Business risks related to food packaging are wide-ranging and everywhere: bisphenol-A (BPA), melamine in pet food or milk, food allergen labeling, country of origin labeling—the list seems endless.

January 7, 2009

Dairy

Food protection plan summary

FDA’s recent summary of the progress of its Food Protection Plan included these specifics relating to the Plan’s three themes: 1) Prevention, 2) Intervention, and 3) Response.

January 7, 2009

Labels

FDA official analyzes current and future food safety efforts

The problem with thinking about how to protect the nation’s food supply is that when you get into it a little bit, it’s pretty frightening.

January 7, 2009

Beverage

Beer 101

MillerCoors needed a way to engage the beer-buying public in-store, right at the shelf, while also educating them about the high-quality, slow-roasted, caramelized malts used to brew its George Killian’s Irish Red Lager.

January 6, 2009

Flexibles

Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles

. Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, is marketing selected beers from its repertoire in private-mold 750-mL glass bottles supplied by United Bottles & Packaging (www.unitedbottles.com), the North American distributor for the glass producer Wiegand & Soehne GmbH & Co. KG of Germany (www.wiegand-glas.de).

January 6, 2009