Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Sylvania's enlightened redesign

Consumer-driven auto aftermarket packaging overhaul of 250+ items also embraces sustainability.

March 2, 2008

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Flexible packaging

Wet wipe maker pioneers 'Eco-Choice' sustainability platform

Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.

March 2, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Make2Pack and PackML making inroads at P&G

Developing machine-control standards that can be widely—if not universally—agreed upon is an activity that remains near the top of P&G’s to-do list.

March 2, 2008

Contract Packaging

The South's largest packaging event

Find solutions to a wide variety of packaging challenges when SouthPack comes to the Charlotte Convention Center March 19-20.

March 2, 2008

Beverage

Juice cooperative promotes 'All-Florida' product origins

Custom on-pack pressure-sensitive label program is easy to implement/operate and heightens consumer interest.

March 2, 2008

Flexibles

DVD package built with sustainable 'ark-itecture'

Evan Almighty launches in a special, paper-based DVD package in Canada.

March 2, 2008

Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings

Sealing in savings

Workers at B&G Foods say they’re happily stuck on their new package sealing system. Reductions in maintenance, downtime, and adhesive costs are impressive.

March 2, 2008

Closures

'Zenergized' tube suits Walgreen's, other retailers

Tubes make effervescent energy tablets portable for consumers.

March 2, 2008

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

'Crisper' snack packaging performance

With a projected two-year ROI, a new popcorn bagging machine runs faster and reduces packaging material waste.

March 2, 2008

Flexible packaging

Industry watch

March 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Innovation and sustainability-- two parts of a whole

Big buzz words in today’s packaging lexicon, “innovation” and “sustainability” are too often viewed as mutually incompatible. This is a mistake.

March 2, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Drug pedigree requirements come and go, and likely will come again

Those waiting for California to implement e-pedigree requirements for drugs as a means of thwarting counterfeiters: Hold your horses.

March 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Mars takes holistic approach to sustainability

As director of sustainability for Mars North America, Kevin Rabinovitch works with all of the company’s units (food, snack, and pet care) in the U.S. He develops and executes sustainability strategies and initiatives aimed at improving triple bottom line results—environmental, social, and economic.

March 2, 2008