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

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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

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Marketing and design: Breaking down the 'silos'

Panel of managers from leading CPG companies says great packages can occur more often if marketing and design work better together upfront.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

From 4-pack to fridge pack

Flexibility and rapid changeover are among the key benefits gained by Thiele’s decision to rely heavily on servo technology in its new packer.

June 30, 2006

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

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