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

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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

Sustainability

PLA-Packed Vitamins

This summer, Highland Laboratories, Mt. Angel, OR, began to replace its more than 200 opaque and amber PET bottles used for dietary supplements with similar containers made of polylactic acid from NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com).

August 31, 2006

Flexibles

Fpa Releases Report, Announces Fall Conference

Flexible Packaging Association’s (www.flexpack.org) 2006 State of the Industry Report focuses on the “value-added” segment of the estimated $21.8 billion flexible packaging business.

August 31, 2006

Flexibles

Environmental stewardship

Scotts uses packaging to instruct on applying fertilizer responsibly.

July 31, 2006

Sustainability

What's not to like about robotics?

Labor savings, high throughput, repeatability, and flexibility are driving adoption of robots. ‘Creating value’ is a key consideration, too.

July 31, 2006

Sustainability

Polymer advances 'resin-ate' with packaging

Consumer- and technology-driven packaging trends come together at the National Plastics Exposition.

July 31, 2006

Sustainability

2010: A packaging odyssey

Pharmaceutical maker Apotex works in concert with systems integrator to assure its packaging operations will meet customer demands at least through the year 2010.

July 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Biohub And Sustainable Packaging

With a seven-year timeframe and a €98 million budget, BioHub is a program introduced in late April by French President Jacques Chirac that aims to limit the use of fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas production.

July 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Today, the packaging industry faces the challenge of continual innovation in response to increasingly savvy shoppers.

June 30, 2006

Sustainability

Moving into the passing lane

“Whether it’s packaging or transportation, we do have personal choices, some that are clearer about the environment, others that are more pure preference.”

June 30, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Clemson gets $2.5 million Sonoco grant

Sonoco has given Clemson University a $2.5-million gift to create a proposed new institute for packaging design and graphics.

June 30, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Persistence Pays

We recognize Rudradev Dasgupta for our first unofficial “Edison Packaging Award” for his remarkable persistence. Dasgupta is packaging development manager for Emicos Intl., Dubai, UAE, which he describes as the largest cosmetics manufacturing company in the Middle East.

June 30, 2006