Closures

Le Bleu upgrades its bottled water packaging

Le Bleu Corp., Advance, NC, has re-staged its premium bottled water packaging by converting to stylized,

September 5, 2007

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Flexibles

Liquid dairy packaging offers global opportunities

Worldwide, nearly 270 billion packs were used in 2006 for liquid dairy products, including white,

September 5, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

U.S. packaging student winners tour Italy

In June, eight U.S. packaging students visited Pharmintech 2007 (www.pharmintech.com) and

September 5, 2007

Dairy

Skin care products sport new foamer pumps

London, England-based Care by Stella McCartney has selected the F2 Finger Pump Foamer from

September 5, 2007

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Lessons from China are for your quality program

At some point, headlines about problematic products from China give one leave to ask, What’s up with China?

September 5, 2007

Consumer packaged goods

Industry watch

CompaniesFKI Logistex opened a new 31,000 sq’ Technology & Education Center in Cincinnati, OH,

September 5, 2007

Beverage

Touting packaging's value to management

John Caporaso, a packaging industry consultant with years of experience with companies such as Campbell Soup, Nabisco and Unilever, offers insights on how to gain support for the packaging function.

September 5, 2007

Sustainability

A look under the hood at Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak hosted a late August media update of marketing and technical topics.

September 4, 2007

Beverage

Calorie-burning beverage rolls out in can 4-packs

Multipacked cans of Celsius are part of a strategically staged introduction.

August 28, 2007

Cartoning

Serpa Casepacker gets new servo modules

Serpa’s all-servo P200 Balcony Casepaker now uses PacDrive Intelligent Servo Modules to maximum advantage for pharmaceutical applications.

August 24, 2007

Dairy

Revamped Peter Pan returns

ConAgra's venerable peanut butter is back on shelf in mid-August with a new look.

August 21, 2007

Beverage

New malt beverage receives distinctive triple label

In July 2006, FEMSA Cerveza, Mexico City, Mexico, introduced “Soul Citric,” a flavored malt beverage (FMB) with citric extracts, through its “OXXO” convenience store chain. Following that successful launch, the product was rolled into large supermarket chains throughout Mexico in January 2007.

August 16, 2007

Containers

The many different facets of glass packaging and sustainability

Sometimes assumptions about sustainability can obscure the clear facts.

August 15, 2007