Sustainable Packaging

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Today, the packaging industry faces the challenge of continual innovation in response to increasingly savvy shoppers.

June 30, 2006

Industries: Page 494

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Anatomy of a servo labeler

What’s a rotary servo labeler? Only the biggest news in flexibility since the invention of the timing screw. And innovative machine builder K2 Engineering is delivering now.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Ozone Treatment Systems

Norland offers the new OZ-25SSA and OZ50SSA, producing enough ozone to treat 25 and 50 gal of bottled water/min, respectively. The compact, platform-mounted systems deliver high ozone production at residual levels from 0.1-0.4 mg/L.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Prémio! Special effects say tequila's fabuloso

Jose Cuervo International is rolling out Black Medallion dark sipping, super-premium tequila in eye-catching bottles that reflect the spirit’s distinctive qualities.

June 30, 2006

Sustainability

Moving into the passing lane

“Whether it’s packaging or transportation, we do have personal choices, some that are clearer about the environment, others that are more pure preference.”

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Sleeve labels boost new Disney line

Five popular Disney characters come to life in the new line of Sun Pals tanning lotions and sprays from No-Ad Suncare of Miami Gardens, FL. The 6-oz squeezable bottles, which retail for about $9.00, are decorated with 2-mil PETG heat-shrinkable film labels from Ameri-Seal (www.ameri-seal.com).

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Hair care packs turn heads

John Frieda Professional Hair Care Business launched in North America in February its Luminous Color Glaze at-home salon-glazing product in clear printed InSight™ packaging from AGI/Klearfold (www.agiklearfold.com), a business unit of MeadWestvaco.

June 30, 2006

Dairy

High-style ice cream cone packaging

This spring, Lucerne, Switzerland-based Emmi Schweiz AG launched a premium line of praline-topped ice creams in crispy almond wafer cones. Creative packaging, developed in conjunction with Huhtamaki (www.huhtamaki.com), was integral to the product introduction.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Kraft case is strong and good-looking

Kraft Foods needed high-impact secondary packaging to contain four 40-oz slugs of premium cracker products.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Glass design rewarded

Bacardi’s Corzo Tequila bottle won the Overall Package Design award in the 2006 Clear Choice Award competition sponsored by the Glass Packaging Institute.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Divining qualified health claims policy by reading the tea leaves

“To make a claim based on a single study that was contradicted by 25 other studies would probably be considered misleading.”

June 30, 2006

Contract Packaging

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference 2007 intensifies Contract Packaging objectives

Last May’s Packaging Summit 2006 (held May 16-18, 2006 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois) was a great success, bringing packaging’s leaders together in one venue specializing in contract packaging solutions, containers and materials innovations as well as an outstanding educational conference program.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Counterfeiting--assess the threat, then build a solution

Dave Sayers is marketing development supervisor for 3M Security Systems, a provider of security solutions and services that identify, authenticate, secure, and track materials and information by combining security and productivity. Sayers talks about the damage caused by counterfeiting and offers advice on how to fight back.

June 30, 2006