Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN brochure details benefits of personal care packaging

New brochure outlines the safety, convenience, and sustainability features of personal care packaging and includes advice on how to minimize personal care packaging waste.

January 23, 2016

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Sustainability

New Kits Marketed in Sustainable Packaging

New England Biolabs launches environmentally friendly Monarch™ Kits for high-quality DNA purification.

January 22, 2016

Contract Packaging

Hurry to the late-February CPA Annual Meeting for Big Brand insights, Big Data and best practices

Supply chain partners will get hands-on advice from a Sam's Club packaging chief; plus legal, labor and tech tips at February's Contract Packaging Association 2016 Annual Meeting.

January 22, 2016

Sustainability

Modest Growth for Global Packaging Demand Through 2020

New Smithers Pira report says Asian regions, emerging markets, and sustainability to drive packaging demand in next five years.

January 19, 2016

Flexibles

Can we solve the flexible film recovery puzzle?

Industry groups have begun looking at strategies to develop multilayer flexible film recovery systems. But can they overcome the challenges that exist in every step of the process?

January 17, 2016

Flexibles

Seventh Generation Introduces Recyclable, Flexible SUP

The new pouch is a multilayer PE structure that provides functional and aesthetic advantages comparable to a mixed-material structure, but solves the recycling challenge.

January 16, 2016

Coding, Printing & Labeling

PCI Reveals Serialization Strategy

Contract packager PCI discusses its serialization systems hierarchy and how it yields benefits both internally and for its pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical companies around the globe.

January 15, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

PCI sees ‘tremendous activity’ in pharmaceutical serialization

Contract packager PCI's serialization investment expected to deliver strong ROI and help its global pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical customers.

January 14, 2016

Plastics/resins

Electronic tablet counter/fillers energize Reliance Private Label Supplements

Growing supplement and vitamin company uses APPS machinery to improve efficiency and ease setup and changeover.

January 12, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Reduce, reuse, recycle is the theme for GreenerPackage.com’s top 10 of 2015

Most-read articles center around commercial applications that reduce the use of petroleum-based plastics, the reuse of packaging materials, and recycling.

January 5, 2016

Contract packaging

In-house HPP replaces toll processing

This Houston startup sees a bright future for refrigerated ready meals with a ‘clean label’ thanks to High Pressure Processing. One unit is in and another will soon be paired with it.

January 5, 2016

Contract Packaging

Cosmetics & beauty care — trends at PACK EXPO

From an experienced veteran comes a look at some of the new equipment, trends, and packages introduced at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015.

January 5, 2016

Contract Packaging

Product giveaway reduced from 6% to 0.4%

By going from a manual to an automated method of putting crispy potato slices into trays, this leading UK potato processor has greatly reduced the amount of product given away.

January 4, 2016