Sustainable Packaging

Persistence Pays

We recognize Rudradev Dasgupta for our first unofficial “Edison Packaging Award” for his remarkable persistence. Dasgupta is packaging development manager for Emicos Intl., Dubai, UAE, which he describes as the largest cosmetics manufacturing company in the Middle East.

June 30, 2006

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Secondary Packaging

Packaging Lessons Learned

Readers share experiences of inventiveness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

June 30, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

HP Invents Eco-Friendly Pack

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, has debuted a new angle on eco-friendly packaging using RPETG, a recycled polyester copolymer, that replaces polyvinyl chloride.

June 30, 2006

Labels

Microwave Coffee-Brewing Cup

JavaVoo LLC’s Micro-Brew Personal Barista is a single-use, disposable container that pressure-brews a ready-to-drink cup of coffee in the microwave in two minutes.

June 30, 2006

Dairy

Cream Cheese Spray Container

With a name like Old Fashioned Foods Inc., you’d think this Mayville, WI-based snack cheese manufacturer would stick with the tried and true.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

A Flair For Self-Venting

Vapor-release pouch technology from Flair Packaging Intl. Corp. (www.flairpackaging.com) provides a “hole” new way to achieve microwave convenience.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Functional packaging flies at FMI

Unilever’s Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers, JavaVoo’s disposable container that “brews” coffee, a self-venting stand-up food pouch used in Asia, and A-B subsidiary Long Tail Libations’ Jekyll & Hyde glass bottles stand out at the 2006 Food Marketing Institute show in May.

June 30, 2006

Containers

Mexican processor says si to new option

Del Fuerte’s shelf-stable vegetables and sauces make smooth move from cans and jars to revolutionary Tetra Recart retort carton packaging.

June 30, 2006

Labels

Congress sends wake-up call about containers

Starbucks, Dow Chemical are on leading edge of RFID-type seals.

June 30, 2006

Converting equipment

Le Nature: Injection-molding of preforms

At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, preforms molded in-house on Husky injection molding systems drop into large totes for removal to the blow-molding machines.

May 31, 2006

Converting equipment

Le Nature: Blow molding preforms into PET bottles

At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, preforms drop down a chute and into the blow-molding machines from Krones.

May 31, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Le Nature: Lane combining on beverage line

At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, an overhead three-to-one air conveyor/combiner sends bottles in a single file to the filler block.

May 31, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Le Nature: Rinsing/filling/capping of beverages in PET bottles

At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, at the heart of the rinse/fill/cap block is a 133-valve filler from Krones.

May 31, 2006