Containers

Adhesive reduces co-packer's labor, stretch-wrap costs

Labor, a major controllable element of contract-packaging costs, can make or break a project. With compressed margins, contract packagers are seeking any opportunity to reduce operating costs.

March 31, 2006

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Cloud expanding services in wipes, towlettes with Multi-Pack purchase

Cloud Packaging Solutions’ recent purchase of Multi-Pack is broadening its contract packaging capabilities within the household cleaning-products industry.

March 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

PLA folding cartons

AGI/Klearfold introduces NatureSource™ Visual Packaging—folding cartons made from NatureWorks PLA corn-based polymer.

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

New 200-degree F hot-melt with maintenance-free application equipment

National Adhesives, a National Starch & Chemical business recently unveiled Easy-Pac™, its complete packaging sealing solution that combines the first 200-degree F hot-melt adhesive with an integrated storage, filling, and application system.

March 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

ELAU, the world's only automation supplier with its total focus on packaging, is among the fir

Having demonstrated overwhelming commitment to the global packaging machinery industry, ELAU is proud to earn the privilege of the new Supplier Member category in “the most effective advocate organization among North American manufacturing industries today.”

March 31, 2006

Adhesives/tape

The wrap-up: Taped creativity

Packaging tapes are available in themed versions from bacon to cowboys to Jesus.

March 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

A special thanks

Packaging World extends a special thanks to Packaging Strategies, whose well-attended Sustainable Packaging Forum October 17-19 in Philadelphia provided countless contacts and information that served as the underpinnings of this three-part series of stories.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Starbucks toasts brand extension

Starbucks Coffee Liqueur’s glass bottle is shaped as a cocktail shaker to extend Starbucks’ brand equity to after-dinner cocktails, winning the Glass Packaging Institute’s Clear Choice Award.

March 31, 2006

Flexibles

Little work, no mess with fondue pouch

The Cacao Noel Fondue au Chocolate Pouch takes the work and mess out of making dark-chocolate fondue while delivering shelf impact. The pouch, from LPS Industries, merely requires a cut along a line on the package and then to heat the contents in the package for one minute in a microwave.

March 31, 2006

Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings

Sleeve answers club-store requirement

Club stores often tell packagers to meet the “five-by-five” rule. That is, make the package communicate from five feet in five seconds. Die-cuts in sleeves of Heinz condiments multipacks enable plastic bottles to show through, immediately telling consumers just what they are buying.

March 31, 2006

Petfood/Pet Care

Container design delivers on retailer's needs

Target Stores wanted a package that stresses value but also with a softer visual profile. A rigid container for 9Lives cat food scores on both accounts in part by piggybacking a free incentive can of cat food onto the primary package, distributed by All-Pak.

March 31, 2006

Containers

Project pail takes pain out of painting

Winning Best of Show honors at the Institute of Packaging Professionals’ (IoPP) 2005 AmeriStar competition, Sherwin-Williams Co.’s Ready-to Roll PP paint container oozes with convenience features.

March 31, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Xbox plays to the environment at Sam's Club

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game system sold exclusively at Sam’s Club appears in a new kind of environmentally friendly packaging.

March 31, 2006