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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Flexibles
Pudding in paperboard
In the U.S., ready-to-eat refrigerated pudding is often sold in multipacked plastic cups with flexible lidding. But in Helsinki, Finland, dairy giant Valio Ltd.
June 30, 2000
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
The legend of Jimmi; an ode to cosmetics
Last month in this space, you learned a bit about how some of us view package design, another way of saying, the “cosmetics” of packaging: how great printing or decorating of a container can attract customers.
June 30, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Kringle tray's a sweet success
Racine Danish Kringles is first to use a thermoformed, E-flute corrugated tray for its baked pastries. Tray delivers strength and environmental and marketing advantages.
June 30, 2000
Protective/transport packaging
Practice makes perfect
With the help of a low-cost prototype tool, ink-jet printer manufacturer Lexmark was able to successfully test mold fiber cushions as a means of protective packaging. As a result, the company enjoys both cost savings and environmental benefits.
June 30, 2000
Flexibles
Primate-powered packaging
Delicious Brands, marketers of Frookie® Funky Monkeys® graham crackers, wanted its new packaging to be as fun as its name.
May 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
GMA testifies on biotech labeling
GMA’s director of international trade and environmental affairs told a California Senate committee that proposals to require labeling of biotech products, such as those pending in Congress and in the California legislature, mistakenly raise questions about food safety and contribute to global trade tensions.
May 31, 2000
Sustainability
Packaging takes spotlight at NPE
From June 19 to 23, the National Plastics Exposition will occupy more than 1.1 million sq’ at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Packaging will be the focus for many of the more than 2ꯠ exhibitors.
May 31, 2000
Sustainable Packaging
Production ahead for corn-derived polymer
Cargill Dow breaks ground on its first world-scale NatureWorks PLA polyactide plant.
April 30, 2000
Protective/transport packaging
IMPEPA forms consortium
The Intl. Molded Pulp Environmental Packaging Assn. has announced the formation of a consortium of molded-pulp product producers, users and machinery manufacturers to conduct research on the properties and behavior of molded pulp as a protective packaging material.
April 30, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
EPA labeling proposal bugs industry
Agency proposal would ban numerous terms from labels of anti-microbial products—and even trade names.
April 30, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labels on crab
Some people in Maryland dont want consumers to think they are eating Maryland crab when theyre not. The Maryland legislature is considering a bill that would require country-of-origin labeling of any container of crab meat packed or processed outside the U.S.
March 31, 2000
Sustainable Packaging
Achievements
Petroleum Packaging Council (Chicago, IL) will fund university scholarships to junior and senior packaging science students at Clemson University, Michigan State University and California Polytechnic State University.
March 31, 2000
Sustainable Packaging
Plastics group form alliance
In a move designed to foster stronger cross-border ties, the American Plastics Council and the Canadian Plastics Industry Assn. have announced that they have forged an alliance designed to enhance the relationship between the two organizations.
March 31, 2000
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