Sustainability

Lightweight antiperspirant cans reduce carbon footprint by 18%

Unilever switches to a lighter-weight aluminum aerosol can for two of its antiperspirant products in Europe.

April 24, 2017

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Contract packaging

Recipharm Delivers First Serialized Batch to Saudi Arabia

The €300,000 project, which is in addition to a wider €40 million investment into new serialization technology and processes to comply with the European Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), enables Recipharm to supply serialized products to Saudi Arabia.

April 24, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Fluorescent markers could jumpstart U.K. recycling

Brunel University London develops a set of invisible phosphor inks that can be coated onto labels and detected by UV to speed the sorting of plastics during recycling.

April 23, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

The forecast for global bioplastics

A new report shows that while the current market for bioplastics for packaging accounts for only a small share of the global plastic packaging market value, it is growing rapidly.

April 22, 2017

Operational Excellence

Taking Wound Care Cues from Spiders

Is point-of-use nanofiber production the future of wound care? Harvard researchers inch closer to a system that could one day produce sterile bandages in the field.

April 21, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Target unveils five new sustainable packaging goals

Among them, elimination of EPS for its owned brand product packaging, adding How2Recycle labels on more of its packaging, and creating end-use markets for recycled materials.

April 18, 2017

Material handling

Serialization Will Impact All Drug Manufacturing

PMMI study reports on serialization implementation hurdles and compliance deadlines.

April 12, 2017

Sustainability

Does PET lightweighting really reduce the carbon footprint?

New research explores how the lightweighting of PET water bottles along with the choice of bottle design, color, label, ink, and adhesive affects post-consumer waste sorting and recycling systems.

April 7, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

American Institute of Packaging and the Environment adds new senior director

Brian Wagner will head environmental initiatives and packaging developments as the Senior Director of the American Institute of Packaging and the Environment.

April 3, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

7 Logistics Questions to Answer When Updating Your Practices

Some seemingly costly cold chain updates can save millions in products losses, transportation costs and more. On the heels of award-winning and sustainable improvements, Cardinal Health and Sonoco ThermoSafe discuss the opportunities and concepts to consider.

March 30, 2017

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Jelly of the Month Club

The market for online grocery shopping is coming online faster than any other industry that has come online before. Are you prepared to take advantage of the opportunity?

March 29, 2017

Packaging line integration

Heightened Focus on Brand Protection for Food and Beverage

With food safety regulations increasing and counterfeiting on the rise, food and beverage companies seek new solutions to protect their brands.

March 28, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Afton Scientific Uses Customized Serialization for Vial Cartons

Cartons and cases of aseptically filled glass vials are serialized and aggregated in advance of DSCSA deadlines.

March 28, 2017