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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Sustainability
Economics, environmental benefits, ease of transport
Three reasons why Three Thieves likes Tetra Pak® carton packaging option for wines.
February 9, 2007
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Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable practices go mainstream
With 60,000 suppliers seeking high marks on the Wal-Mart scorecard, can anyone doubt that sustainable packaging is here to stay?
February 9, 2007
Detergents/cleaners
P&G gains throughput plus cost savings
A recent switch from pallet wrapping to application of a stretch hood lets P&G cut costs while eliminating a bottleneck in its paper tissue packaging operation.
February 9, 2007
Flexible packaging
Checking up on healthcare packaging
Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologicals/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers.
February 9, 2007
Flexibles
Coping with coffee demand
Auger fillers above a vf/f/s machine was just the beginning. A checkweigher with electronic feedback to the filler saves $25,000 in just eight months.
February 9, 2007
Beverage
Funky or functional! Or both?
FDA examines label claims for foods with novel ingredients as new category of foods continues to grow.
February 9, 2007
Bakery/Snack
Vending pack keys rapid response on club store multipacks
Today’s retailer demands continually challenge food manufacturers to innovate and respond to current in-store marketing trends. The pressure often falls to both the manufacturer and its suppliers to develop and implement solutions rapidly.
February 9, 2007
Contract packaging
Multi-dimensional branding: Paste emphasizes attributes, store environment
Recognizing the need for a novel approach to introduce yet another product in the whitening segment, a Manhattan-based cosmetic dentist focused on brand name, package color, and the right distribution channel.
February 9, 2007
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID has game at Best Buy
IDTechEx has published a slick new 128-page RFID in action 2006/7 magazine that features case studies culled from its “RFID Knowledgebase” of more than 2,300 implementations in 85 countries. Of the approximately 25 articles is Best Buy’s implementation that includes smart shelves, electronically enabled shelving that can read the tags of products. This permits the retailer to know whether or not a package is present on-shelf to help reduce out-of-stocks.
February 9, 2007
Controls & Machine Components
Tips on minimizing unplanned downtime
Christian von Olshausen, process engineer packing at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Germany, will be a featured speaker at the Packaging Automation Forum May 23 in Chicago. His presentation will focus on how controls and automation technologies, properly implemented on today’s packaging lines, can minimize unplanned downtime by contributing to Total Quality Management (TQM) and Total Productivity Management (TPM).
February 9, 2007
Flexibles
Lewis and Clark discovers paperless multipacks
Lewis and Clark Brewery, Helena, MT, debuted in summer 2006 a new kind of environmentally friendly six-pack.The brewery has adopted ITW’s BrandPak™, a packaging collaboration from ITW Hi-Cone (www.hi-cone.com) and ITW Auto-Sleeve (www.itw-autosleeve.com) as the multipack of choice for its 12-oz bottles. A sleeving system from PDC Europe (www.pdceurope.com) applies the bands.
February 9, 2007
Labels
Nestlé Beneful receives Pack Expo Selects award
The dog food package for Nestlé Beneful Prepared Meals was selected the winner in the inaugural Pack Expo Selects™ program by packaging professionals attending last November’s Pack Expo Intl., which is sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (www.pmmi.org).
February 9, 2007
Cosmetics/Personal care
New column makes its debut
Don’t miss page 80 for the debut of Pack-Talk. A brand new Packaging World column appearing every other month, it’s written by Barry Goldberg and David Johnson, industry consultants with a combined 60 years of experience in the field of packaging.
February 9, 2007
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