Coding, Printing & Labeling

Thermal ink-jet printing

The Jetpack 1000™ thermal ink-jet printer from Prism now features a Windows® driver, making it compatible with most bar-code and label-generation programs and enabling customers to make a seamless transition to thermal ink-jet technology from print-and-apply labeling systems.

March 4, 2008

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Sustainability

Wonder Tablitz blitzes NACD awards

Spray bottle with integral cavity wins year's top honor from the National Association of Container Distributors.

March 4, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Pulse radar sensors

Automation Products Group offers the PR Series Pulse Radar Level Sensors.

March 4, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Eco-friendly void fill

Pregis Corporation’s GeoSpeed 100 System is a highly flexible, low-cost packaging solution that delivers eco-friendly packaging material.

March 3, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

2007 AmeriStars revealed

A color-changing coffee lid and barrier PET bottle are the big winners in the annual awards conducted by the IoPP.

March 3, 2008

Flexible packaging

Wet wipe maker pioneers 'Eco-Choice' sustainability platform

Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.

March 2, 2008

Contract packaging

Perfume packaging perfection

High-speed digital video recorders help Procter & Gamble analyze packaging line problems and quickly correct them.

March 2, 2008

Contract Packaging

The South's largest packaging event

Find solutions to a wide variety of packaging challenges when SouthPack comes to the Charlotte Convention Center March 19-20.

March 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Innovation and sustainability-- two parts of a whole

Big buzz words in today’s packaging lexicon, “innovation” and “sustainability” are too often viewed as mutually incompatible. This is a mistake.

March 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging at BIC: an extension of guidelines that have long been observed

Christian Keator is area manager-packaging engineering at BIC USA. He describes here how BIC is dealing with today’s new emphasis on sustainable packaging. As it turns out, sustainability has always been a corporate objective at BIC.

March 2, 2008

Flexibles

Sustainability news & events

March 2, 2008

Sustainable Packaging

Mars takes holistic approach to sustainability

As director of sustainability for Mars North America, Kevin Rabinovitch works with all of the company’s units (food, snack, and pet care) in the U.S. He develops and executes sustainability strategies and initiatives aimed at improving triple bottom line results—environmental, social, and economic.

March 2, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Guide to Packaging Law, 2nd Edition

The second edition of Guide to Packaging Law, by Packaging World legal editor Eric Greenberg, is now available from the IoPP bookstore.

March 2, 2008