Flexible packaging

SouthPack serves up three pavilions

Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.

March 31, 2003

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FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

March 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blistering the CPSC

Unit-dose packagers complain that the Consumer Product Safety Commission actually inhibits the use of safer child-resistant drug packaging.

March 31, 2003

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

DreamPak: Forming for unique packages of cheese, neutraceuticals, and snacks

Packaging material is fed from two unwind stands at floor level. Dancer bars help feed the material freely. Before any forming or filling can take place, the two webs must first travel to an overhead level.

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Pickle tub packs foodservice benefits

A shelf-stable, high-density polyethylene container of sliced pickles from Dean Foods, Franklin Park, IL, ensures that Oakbrook, IL-based McDonald’s operators and its customers are well served.

February 28, 2003

Flexibles

Thermoforming proves swell for Jo-El

“Hardware manufacturers were not known for offering consumer-friendly packaging in the past,” admits Benny Vestergaard, logistics manager of Jo-El Electric A/S, Odense, Denmark.

February 28, 2003

Flexible packaging

FPA study picks consumers' brains

Qualitative, focus-group research conducted recently by Perception Research Services on behalf of the Flexible Packaging Assn. (Linthicum, MD) arrived at six key conclusions:

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Following a dream

Thanks to two new vtf/f/s machines, entrepreneur Dr. Aly Gamay was able to expand his cheese processing and flavoring businesses to include nutraceuticals, snacks for kids, and contract packaging, too.See in-plant video

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Interactive strap pack is wireless

Keeper’s feature-packed I-Pack™ secures the tie-down straps, yet permits consumers to interact with the product on store shelves—all without wires.

February 28, 2003

Flexible packaging

Technical Innovation shines

Food packaging was well represented among the winners in the Technical Innovation category of this year’s FPA awards competition.

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Corn-based resin makes North American debut

Wilkinson Manufacturing Co. is the first North American converter to thermoform containers from corn-based polylactide polymer, or PLA. The converter welcomes the material’s sustainable, renewable characteristics, and its consumer-friendly properties.

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

ARC issues pharma report

Just in time for the Interphex show, ARC Advisory Group has released a new Insight report analyzing the business drivers for Gen3 packaging automation in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

February 28, 2003