Contract Packaging

CCB earns superior rating from AIB

The production facilities of CCB Packaging (www.ccbpackaging.com), Hiawatha, IA, have received a Superior rating from the American Institute of Baking for the third consecutive year.

April 11, 2007

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Contract Packaging

Surefil expands facilities, increases testing capabilities

Surefil LLC (www.surefil.com), a contract manufacturer for the personal care and medical industries, has added 50,000 sq ft to its manufacturing facilities in Grand Rapids, MI.

April 11, 2007

Contract Packaging

Cardinal Health sells pharma segment

Cardinal Health Inc. (www.cardinal.com) has reached an agreement to sell its Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services (PTS) segment to The Blackstone Group (www.blackstone.com) for about $3.3 billion. With this move, Cardinal Health is exiting the businesses of developing and packaging medication and other products for pharmaceutical and biotech firms

April 11, 2007

Contract Packaging

Winona Foods expands for the second time in three years

With the recent completion of a $3 million expansion of its facility in Green Bay, WI, Winona Foods Inc. (www.winonafoods.com), says it is able to better serve its food service, industrial, and retail customers. Winona Foods offers contract packaging and private-label packaging services for natural cheeses as well as dips, spreads—including those marketed under the Painted Cow brand—and sauces.

April 11, 2007

Flexibles

Pulp-based film

Hutchinson Miller Sales has introduced a pulp-based film that combines the ease-of-use of paper and the durability and other performance qualities of film.

April 6, 2007

Flexibles

User-friendly blister

MTS Medication Technologies has developed an environmentally friendly, high-barrier blister to augment its medication compliance packaging consumables product line.

April 6, 2007

Contract Packaging

Packaging Summit matures as integrated event

Expo and conference to spotlight innovation, sustainability, co-packing, and global issues. AmeriStar awards reception and WPO meeting and ceremony join the 2007 lineup.

April 4, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging: A convenient truth

All too often it seems that packaging is portrayed as an environmental villain by the media.

April 4, 2007

Flexibles

Packaging environmental efficiency study released

A new 56-page study that takes a careful, measured look at environmental efficiency for various formats may be An Inconvenient Truth for packaging.

April 4, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Carbon footprints, carbon labeling--how warm should we be about these initiatives?

Scarcely a day goes by without a picture in the European news media showing a polar bear, victimized by the onslaught of global warming, clinging forlornly to a fast-melting ice floe. Joining the polar bears in media coverage are the chief executives of Europe’s major international retailers, who seem to be vying for the mantle of greatest green-ness. Consider:

April 3, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Proposed rules on gluten finish the thought on food allergens law

Under its proposed rule, FDA defines ‘gluten’ as proteins that occur naturally in a ‘prohibited grain’ and that may cause adverse health effects in those with celiac disease.”

April 3, 2007

Contract Packaging

Peracetic sterilant accepted for low-acid aseptics at Kan-Pak LLC

FMC's Clarity™ gains FDA acceptance for use by copacker Kan-Pak LLC.

March 29, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference focuses on critical packaging actions

The Packaging Summit Expo and Conference – taking place May 15-17, 2007 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois and sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) – includes a conference program focused on packaging innovation, sustainability, global impact and outsourcing.

March 13, 2007