Sustainability

PP pails

IPL Packaging offers a newly designed family of PP industrial pails and commercial containers.

January 11, 2007

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CPG companies hunt for warehouse club treasure

Success in packaging for the warehouse clubs requires innovation and an understanding of the needs of this unique channel.

January 10, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable practices go mainstream

With 60,000 suppliers seeking high marks on the Wal-Mart scorecard, can anyone doubt that sustainable packaging is here to stay?

January 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability's implications for packaging impact

Just when packaging was making major inroads into the marketing mix, along comes sustainable packaging. While terms such as shelf impact, First Moment of Truth (FMOT), and sustainable packaging are not mutually exclusive, they are not in total alignment either.

January 8, 2007

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

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