Sustainability

The evolution of natural as a lifestyle choice

It’s all about stewardship, life, and energy, and it’s playing out in the beauty and health and wellness categories.

January 9, 2008

Sustainability: Page 306

Protective/transport packaging

Packaging that's ship-shape for shipment

The proper approach to packaging will optimize the benefits of containerization for ocean shipment.

January 7, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

The Top 10 robotics application mistakes

Avoid these mistakes when considering, and implementing, robotics on your packaging line.

December 3, 2007

Flexibles

Analyzing bioplastic packaging's future

Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.

December 3, 2007

Sustainability

Cooking up a recipe for innovation? Serve it up in manageable steps

Start by defining innovation within your company culture. Then organize it, approach it strategically, and source it properly. If you fail, resolve to try again.

November 7, 2007

Flexibles

New product from old packaging

TerraCycle is churning out new products and new product ideas at an incredible rate. Following is a sampling of some of its new products and initiatives in 2007:

November 7, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Cereal manufacturers should switch from two inner bags to one for club store packaging

Sustainable packaging is an incremental pursuit, quickened when adoptions are made by an entire category. For example, club-store-size cereals with twin bags inside a carton could be switched by cereal manufacturers to one large bag.

November 7, 2007

Flexibles

Stretch-wrap load containment with No-Film-Break technology

Lantech offers its new No-Film-Break technology for pallet load containment that cuts film use 30 percent, even in high-speed applications.

October 17, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Keeping on top--staying ahead

The packaging scene has always been complex and technically challenging. But now that the endlessly complex and sometimes contradictory requirements of sustainability have landed in our laps, packaged goods companies and the suppliers they rely on have it tougher than ever.

October 4, 2007

Sustainability

Polyolefin dispersions

Dow Chemical has introduced HYPOD™ Polyolefin Dispersions, propylene- and ethylene-based dispersions that combine the performance of high-molecular-weight thermoplastics and elastomers with the application advantages of a high-solids waterborne dispersion.

October 4, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Plastic paint container

KW Container’s new paint containers aremade of 100% recycled and recyclable HDPE or PP, making them suitable for paint and coatings manufacturers seeking packaging solutions that address environmental challenges.

October 4, 2007

Sustainability

Industry Watch

October 4, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Bottled water pros vs cons

Beyond the tap water vs bottled water taste debate, the issue of bottled water has clearly spilled onto the national table.

October 3, 2007