Flexible packaging

What's new in food & bev?

Convenience is king in food and beverage packaging—now and for the foreseeable future. But other trends bubbling to the surface bear watching.

December 18, 2006

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Sustainable Packaging

Answering innovation's challenges

Pick a leader to champion your cause, prove out your ideas with senior management, and observe ‘category cues' while pushing beyond them, say the experts.

December 18, 2006

Labels

Eclipse goal: build consumption with stationary pack

The Wm. Wrigley Co. challenged its Marketing Department to increase consumption among loyalists of the company's Eclipse chewing gum.

December 18, 2006

Bakery/Snack

Visual association--through a 2-year-old's eyes

In recent televised interviews, separate groups of progressively younger children were shown logos or icons of some of the country's best-known brands.

December 18, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

RFID variables tested

During Pack Expo 2006, Robert Clarke, Ph.D., of Michigan State University's School of Packaging (www.packaging.msu.edu, or e-mail [email protected]), presented original research that looked at a number of variables that affect RFID performance in the real world.

December 18, 2006

Closures

Dispenser gives closure to carpet cleaner

Spartanburg, SC-based Milliken & Co.'s Capture Carpet Cleaner now enjoys trouble-free dispensing thanks to the hinged Flapper® closure from Weatherchem (www.weatherchem.com).

December 18, 2006

Flexibles

In-line pouch forming saves time, labor

Japan-based specialty bread crumbs manufacturer FryStar has adopted an in-line form/fill/seal system for production of pillow pouch packaging with reclosable zippers.

December 18, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Specialty soap grows with eco-oriented clamshell

Pangea Organics, Boulder, CO, selected a molded fiber clamshell for its repackaged line of Ecocentric Bodycare organic bar soaps for environmental reasons. It also received a big sales boost as a bonus.

December 18, 2006

Flexibles

'Molten' chocolate bar flows from stand-up pouch

Billed as “the world's first liquid chocolate bar,” is Lava Bar from Calabasas, CA-based Lava Chocolate, LLC.

December 18, 2006

Tamper-evident machinery

Crisis planning takes exercise

Proper response to a terror tampering will require planning, communication, and action by and among a number of different parties.

December 18, 2006

Beverage

The business of packaging...a global perspective

“By 2050, according to a PIRA report, China will be the world's largest economy. India and the U.S. will be tied for second.”

December 18, 2006

Contract Packaging

Bravo's bullish on shelf-stable dairy products

Roy Warren is CEO of Bravo! Foods Intl., a brand development and marketing company out of North Palm Beach, FL, that promotes and distributes flavored milk drinks and other beverages. Here he explains why he's a big believer in shelf-stable, aseptically filled, milk-based beverages in plastic bottles.

December 18, 2006

Labels

EPA prescribes pest product packaging

Concentrated chemicals sold in small, plastic, non-refillable containers are most affected. But label changes will be mandated for all products of all sizes.

December 18, 2006