Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Complemar to co-pack razors for several retailers

Assembly and packaging production of the ShaveMate Diva razor and Titan 6-Blade razor have been awarded to Complemar Packaging and Fulfillment (www.complemar.com).

December 4, 2008

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Amazon identifies frustration-free packaging

The online retailer addresses consumer frustrations through Web pages featuring users' videos and photos, recommendations—and those packages that draw consumers' ire.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

The U.K.'s green milk (containers)

The milk container market in the U.K. exemplifies the sustainable options within an important packaging segment.

December 3, 2008

Beverage

Innovation insights

Innovation can be painful and costly, but the benefits are tremendous for creating brands that keep customers coming back, food and beverage developer Barbara Stuckey advises.

December 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Sterling Anthony On Pack Expo Intl. 2008

For a variety of reasons, it was a good year.

December 3, 2008

Bakery/Snack

The packaging professional redefined

Packaging professionals are too often pigeonholed as being specialists on the Supply side of the integrated value chain and nothing more.

December 3, 2008

Beverage

Evian brings high fashion to bottled water

Fashion designers know that a good collection combines the reinvention of ideas with underlying signature qualities.

December 3, 2008

Recycling

What if...a collapsing bottle could maintain carbonation in soft drinks?

One of the greatest drawbacks in buying large volumes of soda is that the carbonation level of the product changes throughout the lifespan of the product. !”

December 3, 2008

Dairy

Small footprint, maximum functionality

IndraDrive Mi helps reduce footprint and add flexibility for a four-axis, top-load robotic case packer handling 120 packs/min.

December 3, 2008

Cartoning

Wireless comes to packaging

Used for a decade in things like warehousing or petrochemicals, where long distances make wired connections inefficient, wireless is now surfacing in packaging.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Milk (packaging) gone green

The milk container market is exemplary of sustainable options and developments within one of the most important of all the food and beverage packaging segments.

December 3, 2008

Reusable/Returnable

Reusables benefits checklist

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Reusable transport packaging comes of age

Rising packaging material and supply-chain costs, environmental pressures, and government regulations make reusable transport packaging an attractive and profitable option.

December 3, 2008