Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 484

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Delay printing, see savings

A variable method of printing and labeling just before shipping is emerging. Known as Last Moment of Differentiation, it could curb costs and segment brand owners’ offerings.

December 5, 2008

Contract Packaging

Product supply strategy and contract manufacturing

You are the director of supply chain management for a $1 billion consumer packaged goods (CPG) company.

December 4, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Delivering the best product at the lowest cost

Want to cut product or packaging costs? Whether you make or package the product, look for what you don’t know. Opportunities exist to impact the bottom line.

December 4, 2008

Contract Packaging

Report: strong potential for biopharma CM

Contract manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals has moved beyond being a function of available capacity and cost to a strategic option offering flexibility, quicker time to market, and lower scale-up costs.

December 4, 2008

Contract Packaging

Save the date! CPF 09 to be Sept. 1 in suburban Chicago

Contract Packaging and Packaging World magazines announce that their annual contract-packaging conference and networking event will be Sept. 1, 2009, in suburban Chicago.

December 4, 2008

Flexible packaging

Pharma packaging demand to rise: report

Demand for pharmaceutical packaging—a strong area of growth and opportunity for contract packaging—will increase in the U.S. and Puerto Rico by 5.5% annually to $16 billion in 2012.

December 4, 2008

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Complemar to co-pack razors for several retailers

Assembly and packaging production of the ShaveMate Diva razor and Titan 6-Blade razor have been awarded to Complemar Packaging and Fulfillment (www.complemar.com).

December 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Think about end-of-line savings

Increasingly, smart buyers of contract-packaging services are looking for ways to maximize every production efficiency possible while also squeezing every last unnecessary dollar from operations.

December 4, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Sterling Anthony On Pack Expo Intl. 2008

For a variety of reasons, it was a good year.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Milk (packaging) gone green

The milk container market is exemplary of sustainable options and developments within one of the most important of all the food and beverage packaging segments.

December 3, 2008

Flexibles

Reusable transport packaging comes of age

Rising packaging material and supply-chain costs, environmental pressures, and government regulations make reusable transport packaging an attractive and profitable option.

December 3, 2008

Labels

Authentication--are brands under siege?

A pervasive air of secrecy makes trends in brand protection tough to track. But three authentication efforts shed light on some of the solutions being explored.

December 3, 2008