Contract Packaging

TestPak introduces Stora Enso's smart packaging

Healthcare contract packager TestPak (www.testpak.com), Whippany, NJ, has installed equipment that enables it to produce Stora Enso Packaging Boards' Pharma SHR child-resistant and senior-friendly packaging.

December 19, 2006

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Contract Packaging

AIB awards Toll Packaging a Superior rating

Toll Packaging Group (www.tollpack.com), Gibson City, IL, has received Superior status for the third consecutive year from the American Institute of Baking (AIB).

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

DMI contributes to award-winning sample kit

The Sudden Sun Therapy Kit, a sample package containing a three-step self-tanning system for the face and body, has been selected as a winner in the 2006 package Printing Excellence Awards.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

DePaul Industries ramps up production for Harry & David

Oregon's growing and diverse food processing and packaged goods industries have helped to create a 600% growth in revenue since 2004 at DePaul Industries' Food and Consumer Goods Packaging Service.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Sonoco inks services contract with Lego Group

Sonoco (www.sonoco.com) has signed a five-year agreement with the Lego Group, Billund, Denmark, to supply packaging services for educational products to the family-owned manufacturer of children's play materials.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Supplements switching to PLA bottles

Highland Laboratories (www.highlandvitamins.com) , a Mt. Angel, OR, private-label and contract manufacturer of nutrition supplements, has begun to replace its more than 200 opaque and amber PET bottles used for dietary supplements with similar containers made of polylactic acid (PLA) from NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com). PLA is a bioplastic derived from corn.

December 19, 2006

Flexible packaging

What's new in food & bev?

Convenience is king in food and beverage packaging—now and for the foreseeable future. But other trends bubbling to the surface bear watching.

December 18, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Answering innovation's challenges

Pick a leader to champion your cause, prove out your ideas with senior management, and observe ‘category cues' while pushing beyond them, say the experts.

December 18, 2006

Contract Packaging

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference coming to the U.S.

For the first time in more than a decade, the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) will hold its World Packaging Conference in the United States.

December 18, 2006

Contract Packaging

Bravo's bullish on shelf-stable dairy products

Roy Warren is CEO of Bravo! Foods Intl., a brand development and marketing company out of North Palm Beach, FL, that promotes and distributes flavored milk drinks and other beverages. Here he explains why he's a big believer in shelf-stable, aseptically filled, milk-based beverages in plastic bottles.

December 18, 2006

Contract Packaging

Club Stores: Show us the value

Display pallets and promotional packaging—two specialties of co-packers—are gaining steam as merchandising tactics. A third tactic, sustainability, is just getting legs.

December 12, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Ring carrier's movie role is PR nightmare

The animated movie Happy Feet features a penguin choking on a ring carrier. A packaging supplier responds.

December 4, 2006

Flexible packaging

CP is first to launch CR/SF packaging system

Healthcare contract packager TestPak unveils its child-resistant, senior-friendly line at an October open house.

November 27, 2006