Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 428

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging solution to the CFL problem

Although it's a problem that 'greener' CFL bulbs contain mercury, packaging can provide a solution.

September 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Eco-friendly bags and gift packaging

August 31, 2008

Protective/transport packaging

Recycled bubble material

Pregis is launching Astro-Bubble® Green, the first-ever air-cushioning bubble material to contain a minimum of 30% and as much as 40% recycled content.

August 31, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Wireless LAN installation

Sinema E™ from Siemens is designed to complement the co.’s Scalance™ wireless LAN.

August 31, 2008

Sustainability

Highlights from PAF 2008

Space constraints prohibit an all-inclusive report on Packaging Automation Forum 2008, sponsored by Packaging World and Automation World magazines. But here’s a peek at what Unilever, Lilly, and P&G had to say.

August 31, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

August 31, 2008

Flexible packaging

Possible PVC packaging ban is latest California trend

A general observation: bans on packaging materials or articles are virtually always misguided, simply because it is just about never true that a specific packaging material or structure is all bad, or so bad that the bad outweighs the good.

August 31, 2008

Sustainability

'Green' strategy makes economic (dollars and) cents

An interview with Carmen Corrado, vice president of pharmaceutical manufacturing for Roche, Nutley, NJ.

August 31, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

New sustainable web site/awards competition

Summit Publishing Co., publishers of Packaging World, announced the 2008 launch of GreenerPackage.com, a sustainable packaging Web site, and a companion competition, the Greener Package Awards.

August 31, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

The growth and benefits of calculating carbon footprint

Consumers, legislation, and corporate social responsibility are combining to demand more sustainable and environmentally friendly products with packaging regularly targeted as an area for improving efficiency.

August 31, 2008

Flexible packaging

Edson debuts delta robot case packer

Edson, specialists in case packing of hard-to-handle flexible packages, introduces an all-new, ELAU-enabled delta robot packer, the RPd 270, at PACK EXPO booth N-4345

August 28, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Measuring sustainability with ASSET™, Alcan Packaging's comprehensive measuring tool for packaging

The Alcan Sustainability and Stewardship Evaluation Tool (ASSET™), is the first statistical tool to comprehensively analyze and measure the sustainability impact of a packaging product.

August 24, 2008