Flexible packaging

Reclosure features dominate

Four FPA winners in the Packaging Excellence category are zippered pouches. A produce pack, a coffee carafe, and a shrink-sleeve label round out the category.

February 28, 2002

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Sustainability

Packagers share green thoughts (sidebar)

Exactly how green is that package?

February 28, 2002

Sustainable Packaging

Packagers share green thoughts

An exclusive Packworld.com survey reveals packagers’ thoughts and advice about environmentally friendly packaging.

February 28, 2002

Contract Packaging

Consumers power packaging (sidebar)

Who participated in survey

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Contract Packaging

Consumers power packaging

An exclusive Packworld.com survey shows most packagers test packaging with consumers, though the majority of packagers do so with modest investments.

February 28, 2002

Contract Packaging

Q&A: Promotional multipacks

Steve Ruble, senior packaging engineer at Lexington, KY-based Ashland, Inc., owner of the well-known Valvoline brand motor oil.

January 31, 2002

Contract Packaging

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers (sidebar)

Which companies participated

January 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers

Many packaging suppliers have realized a shift in sales toward contract packagers. Some say CP business has helped ‘sustain’ their companies.

January 31, 2002

Contract Packaging

Are packaging jobs secure? (sidebar)

Equipment purchase plans remain steady

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Stanford Personal Care: Filling from start to finish

On a new shampoo line at this contract packaging facility, bottles are metered into and out of the filler from Pacific Packaging Machinery via starwheels. Shampoo is filled volumetrically in continuous motion into bottles that rest individually on cam-operated platforms.

December 31, 2001

Contract Packaging

The state of contract packaging

As manufacturers seek to improve market response time, contract packaging becomes an important production strategy. End users forestall investments in equipment and labor while they test new packages.

December 31, 2001

Contract packaging

Outsourced packaging: Let the experts do it!

Exclusive survey reveals that manufacturers increasingly turned to contract packagers in 2001, and the growth continues this year.

December 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

Contract packaging trends

What do contract packagers see happening in their industry? Packaging World found out in an exclusive series of one-on-one interviews.

December 31, 2001