Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Achieving value by anticipating needs (sidebar)

One successful tactic for paperboard manufacturers in developing value-based packaging is knowing what consumers want and then taking the initiative to anticipate CPG companies’ needs by designing the right packaging and marketing it to them.

May 31, 2005

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Automation software makes real-time adjustments

With an industrial PC operating as its main controller, this blister-pack machine recalculates cam tables with each cycle.

May 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' upgrades medical packs

DataLase® from Sherwood Technology in the United Kingdom permits the “printing” of a virtual label directly into packaging substrates using a low-power carbon dioxide-based laser that replaces conventional print-and-apply methods.

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Innovation award winner (sidebar)

Carded PackagingBlisterguard® Security PackageManufacturer: Colbert Packaging Corp.

April 30, 2005

Sustainability

interpack insights

The buzz at the über-sized interpack packaging show in Germany included integration, function-block technology, Rx ‘pens,’ simplicity, esthetics, and concern for machinery ‘made in China.’

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

High-speed blister card machine

MGS Machine Corp.

March 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

High-speed blister card machine

MGS Machine Corp.

March 31, 2005

Sustainability

Consumer survey identifies package challenges

Packaging for liquid soap and for ready-to-eat, precut fruits were identified by consumers as the most consumer-friendly in a new survey and report from Mona Doyle/The Consumer Network.

March 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' used on medical packs

A medical device manufacturer is testing replacing its print-and-apply applicators with ‘virtual labels’ created by laser coding technology.

February 28, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Lift and weigh checkweighers

The new Sonic-LW Lift-N-Weigh Checkweighers from Thompson Scale provide additional weighing options for companies that package cups filled with various condiments or blister packs that cannot be weighed with a standard checkweigher.

February 28, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

SouthPack and more

SouthPack plus the co-located Design & Manufacturing South and the Plastec South serve up information and technology to the expanding Southeast region.

February 28, 2005

Sustainability

Consumer-friendly packaging gains new importance

Mona Doyle wants brand managers and package designers to know this: The price you pay in good will and sales for packaging that consumers perceive as undesirable could get even higher.

January 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Post Pack Expo observations on machinery developments

Chinna Chinnakaruppan, manager of project engineering at Schering-Plough’s Kenilworth, NJ, plant, talks about recent trends in packaging machinery.

January 31, 2005