Flexibles

Retort pouches: Hottest packaging market?

A new study and a conference presentation concur: Retort packs are thriving and poised for growth.

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Sustainability

CPGs focus on graphics

Where packaging is concerned, consumers often judge a book by its cover. Therefore, glossy coatings and stunning graphics can greatly influence a shopper’s purchasing decision.

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Flexibles

Bacardi focuses on consumers

Maintaining a consumer focus when developing new products and packaging is critical to the success of Bacardi, said Yousef Zaatar, vice president, product manufacturing development, for Bacardi Bottling Corp., Jacksonville, FL.

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Beverage

Doing business in China

How to avoid looking like a sha lao wai (silly foreigner) when dealing with Chinese businesspeople.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

Nestlé dons shrink labels in Canada

Shrink labels are helping Nestlé dress up its high-density polyethylene containers of Coffee-Mate non-dairy creamers, and Nesquik, Rolo, and CoffeeCrisp ready-to-drink milk beverages recently introduced in Canada.

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Reusable/Returnable

PPC Gold award winners

Following is a list of Gold award winners from the PPC annual competition.

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Reusable/Returnable

PPC Gold award winners

Following is a list of the Gold Award winners from the PPC annual competition.

April 30, 2004

Closures

Pet product closure

Precious Cat, a Colorado-based pet care company, chose a closure from Weatherchem to top its 20-oz container for cat litter additive called Cat Attract™.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Stonyfield opts for in-line tf/f/s

For four years, Stonyfield Farm filled its 4-oz YoBaby organic yogurts for babies and toddlers into injection-molded polypropylene cups, with six filled and lidded cups automatically unitized in a wraparound paperboard carton.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

New copolymers

Versify* Plastomers and Elastomers, a new range of specialty propylene-ethylene copolymers from Dow Chemical, are designed to improve optics, sealing and hot tack performance, elasticity, flexibility and softness.

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Beverage

Rise projected in foodservice disposables

Rising disposable personal income, says The Freedonia Group, will fuel demand in the U.S. for foodservice disposables 4.3% per year through 2007, to $14.2 billion.

April 30, 2004

Cosmetics/Personal care

Red Zone gets 'radical' makeover

Earlier this year, Old Spice Red Zone soft solid antiperspirant was re-introduced to the market with a high-tech look, designed and engineered by Product Ventures for manufacturer Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati.

April 30, 2004

Additives, coatings & inks

PET bottle resin companies seek relief

An organization called the U.S. PET Resin Producers Coalition in late March filed petitions with the United States Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission requesting an investigation of unfair trade practices by PET resin producers in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

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