Sustainability

Lessons learned from your best projects

Packaging professionals share their best experiences with projects—and what they learned.

July 3, 2009

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Flexible packaging

Awards push sustainability

The 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation honors 10 winners that all carry a sustainable packaging message in their design and construction.

July 2, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation

Product development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation, says Packaging Hall of Fame inductee Edward J. Bauer, senior director, product and package innovation and development, for Pittsburgh-based General Nutrition Centers.

July 1, 2009

Cartoning

The key to going fast is to not go slow

The idea of a high-speed Midwest rail network based around Chicago is picking up some serious steam in Washington.

July 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

In-mold labels save trees

Lloyd’s Barbeque Co., a div. of Hormel Foods Corp. recently introduced new sustainable plastic tub packaging with in-mold labeling.

June 30, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Industry watch

June 5, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bauer's pharmaceutical handbook lends 'Hall of Fame' packaging perspective

Professionals and students will benefit from an informative research tool now available for the healthcare packaging community.

June 5, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

It's all about precision and timing

Six-cavity thermoformed cassettes used for clinical blood testing require careful handling during packaging. This controls solution delivers.

June 5, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

MAP expands German foodservice provider's map

Bauer Funken’s two modified atmosphere packaging systems pack salads, sandwiches, and other foods for the German market.

June 5, 2009

Flexibles

Cafe Yumm! Sauce rebrands through 'green' packaging

Lightweighting drove Beau Delicious! Intl. to change from glass jars to sleeved APET containers.

June 4, 2009

Sustainability

Inspired leadership and the power of innovation

Now is not the time to innovate. Innovation involves risk, and doing anything even remotely risky is unwise in times of economic uncertainty.

June 4, 2009

Sustainability

Industry watch

May 5, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Walmart Rx plan could boost unit-dose packaging

Walmart and other pharmacies could drive more widespread use of unit-dose packaging in the U.S., says Peter G. Mayberry, executive director of the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (www.unitdose.org).

May 4, 2009