Flexible packaging

Coca-Cola, P&G announce new company

Coca-Cola, P&G announce new companyLonger shelf life, lighter-weight containers and easy-opening convenience are likely to represent key packaging features for products marketed by a new company announced in late February by The Coca-Cola Company and Procter & Gamble.

February 28, 2001

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Two chambers prove better than one

For Schering-Plough HealthCare Products’ new Coppertone® Endless Summer® Sunless Tanning Lotion, new tanning technology required new packaging technology as well.

February 28, 2001

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

A marketer in packaging trade dress

To paraphrase an old packaging axiom: In marketing terms, the word “revision” is virtually synonymous with “deadline.” Ask any packaging professional—from R&D to engineering to the testing lab to purchasing to the packaging machinery maintenance department—and they’ll tell you that the “suggestions” from the marketing department can be major source of stress.

February 28, 2001

Detergents/cleaners

Survey respondents focus on E-commerce (sidebar)

Methodology

February 28, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Survey respondents focus on E-commerce

Respondents to Packworld.com’s survey about direct-to-consumer e-commerce had plenty to say about costs, staffing changes and the lessons they’ve learned.

February 28, 2001

Detergents/cleaners

E-commerce demands quick-change equipment (sidebar)

Methodology

February 28, 2001

Contract packaging

E-commerce demands quick-change equipment

Packworld.com visitors relate packaging changes necessary for e-commerce, direct-to-consumer sales through an exclusive survey conducted late last year.

February 28, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Coders save company its sweet time

Just Born’s ink-jet coders print date codes on cartons and trays of candy with minimal changeover time.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Converting technologies into solutions

CMM’s 13th biennial exposition in April plans to offer answers for converting and package printing industries, through what it calls its most comprehensive educational program ever.

February 28, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

'Enlightened' registration slashes tube scrap

A move to an upgraded vision sensor for tube registration helps filling at Access Business Group stay out of the dark. Literally.

February 28, 2001

Secondary Packaging

Coupling smooths packer's pick-and-place motion

Servo motor coupling provides smooth and accurate pick-and-place motion in a case packer at Jersey Juice.

February 28, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Gillette's new Venus packed with features

Both the product and package for Gillette for Women Venus razor achieve new levels of consumer convenience. An easy-open blister pack with an unusual collar highlights the razor, while cartridges are hermetically sealed in easy-open cups.

February 28, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging grows in HBA 2001 Plans

This year’s HBA Global Expo will include a sizable contingent of packaging producers, plus there’s a packaging track in the Conference program.

February 28, 2001