Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 444

Contract Packaging

Moving forward from here

The majority of consumer packaged goods companies have looked to their supply chains to help them through the recent economic downturn.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Study: Economic conditions are pushing companies into distribution network

CPG companies are re-evaluating to find efficiencies and cut costs. Much of the focus is on transportation and warehousing, from changing vendors to resizing facilities.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Companies

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Small-character ink-jet printer tackles co-pack challenge

Illinois Growth Enterprises Inc., a contract packager in Rockford, IL, is a nonprofit organization that provides vocational training to people with disabilities and tailors programs to meet individual worker needs.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Drake wins Children's Art Project contract

The Drake Company, Houston, TX, has been awarded a three-year contract by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project (CAP) to produce its greeting card and gift displays, which will house products inspired by the hospital’s pediatric cancer patients network.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Jacobson to run fifth in-DC co-packing facility for PepsiCo

Consumer packaged goods companies increasingly are positioning their contract packagers inside their distribution centers.

November 18, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Assessing the ramifications of front-of-pack label

Front-of-pack nutrition labeling is a hot button in the push to improve dietary habits in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue labeling guidelines soon as part of the Obama Administration’s fight against obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions in this country.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Contract packaging consolidation: UAS acquires APN Labs

UAS Laboratories expands its offerings by providing a complete range of probiotics and other specialty nutritional supplements.

November 17, 2010

Sustainability

OCME shrink-wrap packer reduces costs and environmental impact

Using film as thin as 30 microns, low energy consumption shrink tunnel and 17 high efficiency B&R servo motors, OCME's sustainable shrink-wrap packer doesn't miss a beat on throughput, changeover, ease of use and maintainability, either.

November 16, 2010

Contract Packaging

Understand your outsourcing options

With so many outsourcing options available, understanding them clearly is critical to leveraging them to further your organizational objectives.

November 13, 2010

Sustainability

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November 13, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Mitsubishi Polyester Film develops liner recycling program

Mitsubishi Polyester Film, Inc. has developed a technical breakthrough to establish a post-industrial closed loop process for the sustainable recovery of waste polyester liner film.

November 8, 2010