Sustainability

Sustainability News & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

June 1, 2008

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 433

Sustainability

Plastic suppliers enhance performance characteristics of PLA

Ingeo™ polymer produced by NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com) is one of the most discussed biopolymers on the market today.

June 1, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

The NFL and packaging

An interview with Jena Roberts, vice president of sales and marketing for the National Food Laboratory, Livermore, CA.

June 1, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Plastics in packaging report

Packaging is the largest market for thermoplastics. It accounts for nearly half of all polymers processed in Europe, which for 2007 amounted to 18.2 million tons of material in a business worth an estimated €54 billion. .

June 1, 2008

Sustainability

Packages earn NACD awards recognition

NACD Packages of the Year honored this month highlight innovation, sustainability.

May 31, 2008

Sustainability

White paper on the state of buying groups in packaging

Today, smart owners want more than rebates, according to new white paper from Afflink.

May 29, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Savings: How to Score Better with Corrugated Reductions

Top-loading wraparound technology from Goodman Packaging Equipment can reduce your corrugated and manpower needs for casing products, allowing you to ‘score’ better environmentally with retailers like Wal-Mart while saving costs. Comments from two end users bolster the case for top loading.

May 21, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Greener By Design conference gains support

Packaging World and Shelf Impact! are sponsors of a new conference on sustainability, Greener by Design, produced by GreenBiz.com and Global Executive.

May 20, 2008

Palletizing/depalletizing

INDUSTRY WATCH

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May 13, 2008

Contract packaging

EastPack returns to New York

EastPack, the East Coast’s largest packaging event, is ready to run with five other shows at New York City’s Javits Convention Center.

May 13, 2008

Sustainability

Experts analyze medical device packaging market

Global packaging standards, 11607 packaging compliance, accelerated aging, package failure analyses, and tips for working with consultants were among the key discussion points at the recent MD&M (Medical Design & Manufacturing) West Conference.

May 13, 2008

Contract Packaging

CP 08: Succeeding with Contract Packaging

Join us at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg September 16 and 17 at CP 08: Succeeding with Contract Packaging for an exceptional educational and networking program designed for users and providers of contract packaging and related services..

May 13, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainable tube packaging from Norden

In Europe, not all toothpaste tubes come in cartons – to reduce packaging material usage, more tubes are now being tray packed and shrink wrapped for use as point-of-sale display packs.

May 13, 2008