Sustainable Packaging

FBA, corrugated, and Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard

The Fibre Box Assn.’s Sustainability Committee is working with Wal-Mart to help corrugated manufacturers 'make the grade' on the retailer’s packaging scorecard.

January 3, 2007

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Sustainable Packaging

When less is more: Insights to using less packaging

Bob Lilienfeld, who heads Use-less-stuff.com, has championed source reduction as the key to packaging sustainability for more than a decade. Here's his take on overpackaging, the Wal-Mart scorecard, and related topics.

December 21, 2006

Flexible packaging

What's new in food & bev?

Convenience is king in food and beverage packaging—now and for the foreseeable future. But other trends bubbling to the surface bear watching.

December 18, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Answering innovation's challenges

Pick a leader to champion your cause, prove out your ideas with senior management, and observe ‘category cues' while pushing beyond them, say the experts.

December 18, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Ring carrier's movie role is PR nightmare

The animated movie Happy Feet features a penguin choking on a ring carrier. A packaging supplier responds.

December 4, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

PLM and packaging

How Product Lifecycle Management can help packaging: An interview with PLM provider Agile Software.

November 13, 2006

Sustainability

Water, water is everywhere, perhaps not what you think

When it comes to bottled water, there is more to it than you may think, and less to it than you may think.

November 5, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart launches plan to reduce packaging

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. caused quite a stir when it put the heat on its suppliers to incorporate RFID to create supply-chain pedigrees.

November 5, 2006

Sustainability

Industry Watch

November 5, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Wal-Mart reveals packaging scorecard

An interactive, highly detailed online 'Packaging Scorecard' announced by Wal-Mart/Sam's Club at Pack Expo on Nov. 1 benefits sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions.

November 2, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart launches plan to reduce packaging

Retailer will use a scorecard for suppliers to make purchasing decisions for packaging. New initiative aims to reduce packaging by 5% and save $3.4 billion.

October 10, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo International turns 50

The year's largest resource for all things packaging comes to Chicago with two new technology pavilions for attendees to visit. Also debuting: Pack Expo Selects.

October 8, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Paul Vandenberg, creative director at i4Design (www.desi4n.com), a package design firm, offers the following worthwhile exercise: Ask yourself and your package design team, “What if?” The challenge is to use great packaging ideas being introduced elsewhere not as a template for your own projects, but as inspiration for what could be for your products.

October 5, 2006