Protective/transport packaging

'Book-smart' system doubles productivity

Book seller cuts labor requirements, shipping costs, and lost-in-mail rates with new shipper packaging system.

February 28, 2006

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Flexibles

High-abuse shrink bag literature

Free literature is now available from Vector Packaging on its Vector 80 High Abuse Plastic Shrink Bags. Designed for bone-in case-ready meat and poultry products, bags have excellent clarity and puncture resistance.

February 28, 2006

Flexibles

FPA Silver Award Winners, continued

This is a continuation of the FPA Silver Award winners...

February 28, 2006

Consumer packaged goods

Thermal control protection panel

The Thermal Control Panel from TCP Reliable comprises blow molded bottles with tabs that allow them to be interconnected in a variety of ways. Inside the bottles are special formulations of chemicals whose phase-change temperatures are at the optimum storage temperature of the temperature-sensitive product stored within the formed shape.

February 28, 2006

Cosmetics/Personal care

PET infuses soap dispenser with style and depth

The use of PET is growing in cosmetics and personal care packaging.

February 28, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Brand restaging gives Seagram's, coolers category a lift

Can the impact of dollars invested in a package redesign be measured on the bottom line?

February 28, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nestlé adds nutritional label to confections in UK and Ireland

With interest in healthy eating on the rise in Europe, Nestlé is beginning to phase in nutritional labeling on its confectionery products in England and Ireland.

February 28, 2006

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Status quo for labels

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is deferring indefinitely its planned requirement that individual meat and poultry products bearing a “healthy” claim on the label contain no more than 360 mg of sodium and that meal-type products making a “healthy” claim contain no more than 480 mg.

February 28, 2006

Dairy

Label olestra, CSPI says

Continuing its strategy of using the courts to do what FDA has failed to do, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is aiding a Massachusetts consumer in a lawsuit against Frito Lay for allegedly deceptively marketing its line of “Light” potato chips because the product label did not indicate it contained the fat substitute olestra, which is known to have a laxative-type effect on some people.

February 28, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID for now and tomorrow

Matt Ream of Zebra Technologies talks about RFID implementation and offers predictions as to where this technology is headed.

February 28, 2006

Consumer packaged goods

Making new 'antiques'

One of the great things about getting old is, as the old joke says, you’re still on the sunshine side of the grass.

February 28, 2006

Flexibles

'Mucho' convenient consommé packaging

In December 2005, Spanish food processor Gallina Blanca debuted consommés and broths in single-serve, shelf-stable, microwaveable cups custom-designed and produced by EDV Packaging.

February 28, 2006

Closures

New aseptic beverage carton screw cap debuts in Europe

The first commercial user of a new three-piece screw cap mechanism for aseptic beverage cartons has been introduced in Germany by Milchwerke Thüringen GmbH, a subsidiary of the Humana Milchunion group.

February 28, 2006