Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 365

Sustainable Packaging

'Sustainable and green packaging' market worth $107.7 billion

New report points to rising environmental concerns, increasing health awareness, a dearth of natural resources, and high energy consumption as drivers for sustainable and green packaging.

July 13, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN identifies top priorities

At first member meeting, AMERIPEN selects education, resource recovery, and EPR as focus areas for 2011-2012.

July 11, 2011

Flexibles

SC Johnson hopes to catalyze move toward refillables with Windex Mini

SC Johnson commits to leading change toward refillable concentrate products for household cleaning with the introduction of a flexible pouch-packed concentrate.

July 8, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Bayer publishes Sustainable Development Report 2010

Company’s Sustainable Development Report describes the economic, ecological, and social challenges linked to its operations, and the strategies to meet them.

July 5, 2011

Contract Packaging

Assuring brand loyalty: Make yourself a 'need' rather than a 'want'

Have you noticed how waves of financial success, followed by strife, over time, spell a very unpredictable future for contract packagers? We are no different than any other segment of the packaging industry.

June 30, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging that's grown

Only two Diamond Awards for Excellence in Innovation, Cost/Waste Reduction and Sustainability were handed out this year, and one was won by Ecovative LLC for its EcoCradle™ protective packaging product.

June 29, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Making sense of LCA in packaging

The key to truly ‘more sustainable’ packaging design is to begin with a strategy. With a vision and goals specific to your company, you can successfully apply tools like LCA to make better design and purchasing decisions.

June 29, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Summer Garden Food Unveils the 'Secret Sauce'

Summer Garden Food's unusual approach integrates a green manufacturing facility with an efficient filling and packaging line— boosting sales by more than 15%.

June 29, 2011

Sustainability

PepsiCo's challenge to Coke's reigning PlantBottle

In the soft drink wars, a new battle is being waged.

June 29, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

The crop waste buzz

Using crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock is suddenly hot.

June 29, 2011

Sustainability

Latest advances in PLA bio-resins for thermoformed packaging

Technology brief from Plastic Ingenuity explains the latest advances in using PLA bioplastics for most thermoformed food packaging applications. Covers advances in heat deflection, typical cost, capacity, clarity, and brittleness.

June 27, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

Twist on molded fiber yields smooth surfaces on both sides of a thermoform

Read about Plastic Ingenuity's use of the Type 3 molded fiber process, which creates a strong, well-defined part with smooth surfaces on both sides of a thermoformed part. Feedstock derived from newspaper, waste paperboard, office paper scrap.

June 27, 2011