Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 464

Sustainable Packaging

Foams market faces rising costs and environmental regulations

If your company uses polymer foams in the packaging process, you might want to consider the challenges facing foam suppliers, as described in a recent Frost & Sullivan study on European markets for polymer foams.

February 28, 2006

Contract Packaging

Anderson Packaging becomes 100th CPA member

The Contract Packaging Assn. (CPA) announced Rockford, IL-based Anderson Packaging, Inc. (AP) as its 100th corporate member. AP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amerisource Bergen Corp.

February 28, 2006

Contract Packaging

Achievements

Contract Packaging Assn.

February 28, 2006

Sustainability

Packaging machinery OEMs and buyers of packaging machinery talk turkey at Ipack-Ima

Presented in conjunction with Ipack-Ima, the Italian packaging show just held February 14-18 in Milan, was a half-day event called Global Packaging Managers & Equipment Suppliers Forum.

January 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Building better bonds between makers and buyers of packaging machinery

People I talked to at Ipack-Ima 2006, held February 14-18 in an architectural wonderland called Fiera Milano on the outskirts of Milan, were cautiously hoping that the show may be a sign that economic recovery is on the way.

January 31, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

First labeler retrofit with award-winning ELAU servos

Yakama Juice plant manager Jack West says “when K2 said they could do everything on one machine, I was really impressed.”

January 31, 2006

Cartoning

Coordinate package design with machinery capabilities

At the Package Design 2006 Conference, designers saw how innovative package designs sometimes require all-new machine designs – and why it pays to collaborate with packaging engineering up front.

January 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Envisioning a new environmental package design

Since innovative thinking on ways to balance packaging and the environment is always in short supply, I was curious to see if Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World by Daniel Imhoff would contribute something new to the dialog.

January 31, 2006

Sustainability

Business Savvy Behind Sustainable Packaging

We are moving today to a new level of social and environmental responsibility for packaging. The buzz words “sustainable packaging” describe that goal. Getting there requires us to adopt new strategies and action plans.

January 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Embracing the promise of sustainable packaging

The rise in oil prices has sparked interest in alternatives to petroleum-based packaging. But the sustainable packaging movement is about more than just oil pricing.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Embracing the promise of sustainable packaging (sidebar)

Microsoft Moves Toward Sustainability

January 31, 2006

Sustainability

Five ways to better ink-jet printing

Inks are evolving as substrates, industry regulations, and customer demands change.

January 31, 2006