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Materials Purchasing: Grocer buys into online shopping
Grocery retailer H.E. Butt Co. procures packaging materials through the INC2inc Internet marketplace. Now it’s persuading its vendors to climb aboard.
August 31, 2000
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Conveying & accumulation
Notable web sites
Materials MarketplacesB2BPKG.com (www.b2bpkg.com) is a packaging materials marketplace that allows users to constuct a private catalog of vendors for online procurement.
August 31, 2000
Cosmetics/Personal care
Capital Machinery E-sales on Hold
Though business-to-business electronic exchanges may one day make a dent in the packaging marketplace, very little is happening now in the way of point, click and buying of capital equipment online.
August 31, 2000
Dairy
Letters to the editor
Survey on targetI concur with your buying survey responses (www.netsourcingmag.com/articles/04.00/survey.htm)—the majority of people, even Web-savvy packaging professionals, are primarily using the Net to purchase office supplies or basic, stock commodity packaging components with previously qualified vendors—not specified packaging materials—as other surveys have suggested.
August 31, 2000
Bakery/Snack
The Myth of the Single Portal
Some online marketplaces would have you believe that at the end of the day, there will be only one Web site that buyers use for Internet packaging procurement.
August 31, 2000
Closures
A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles (sidebar)
Meanwhile, at Miller Brewing
August 31, 2000
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles
Michigan Brewing sees great potential for beer in plastic when the target market is tightly focused. Custom-labeled bottles for a casino, for instance, have found a receptive audience.
August 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
'No-label' look reflects purity of product
Global Balance Co. switches from a glass jar to an HDPE tube for consumer benefits, vastly improving product sales.
August 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Battle brewing over child-resistant caps
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering mandating child-resistant closures for cosmetics, cleaning solvents and auto products, among others.
August 31, 2000
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Blister pack is clearly 'key' to adapter visibility
New thermoformed clear vinyl package improves shelf presence, while it lowers costs for Keyspan adapters.
August 31, 2000
Cartoning
Food marketers focus on schools
New packaging equipment is helping two California food processors grow their school foodservice businesses.
August 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines
Labatt Breweries upgrades bottling line conveyors with compact drives that smooth production, enhance network communications and simplify troubleshooting.
August 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
PPG paints precise picture of production (sidebar)
PI: Benchmarking a World Class line
August 31, 2000
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