Sustainability

Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards

From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.

January 31, 2000

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Secondary Packaging

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

UCB Films (Wigton, Cumbria, England) will invest $50 million throughout the next year to increase its production capacity for specialty coated films.

January 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Shave products in fashion colors

Gillette has introduced Gillette for Women Sensor Excel® razors and two new formulas of Satin Care® shave gel. Both come in sparkling, feminine packaging reflecting color trends from the fashion world’s spring runways.

January 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Customers love new baby 'bundles'

Forced by customer complaints, a strapping system was replaced by a new shrink bundling system so repackager Sassy Baby Products could cut losses from damage and missing containers.

January 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Amish packager takes hands-on approach

A new skin-pack machine provides an Amish manufacturer of brass curios with a smaller, cleaner-looking package that occupies less space on gift-shop shelves.

January 31, 2000

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Videojet Systems Intl., Inc. (Wood Dale, IL) has changed its name to Marconi Data Systems Inc. The name change supports the recent rebranding of Videojet’s parent group from GEC to Marconi plc.—Power Packaging (St.

December 31, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister pack holds medical dosing device

Safe-T-Dose is an unusual dispensing product that becomes part of the package it’s inserted into to make it easy to dispense exact doses of liquid medicines without spills.

December 31, 1999

Flexibles

Reclosable film

For packaging that can be closed again and again, Danisco Flexible (Copenhagen, Denmark) has introduced ReClose film. The film is polyester/PE based and has a built-in adhesive that allows it to stick to itself.

November 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

HMR package serves dual markets

Southern BBQ restaurant chain and mail-order business employs the same dual-ovenable CPET tray and attractive paperboard carton to introduce frozen dinners sold both in hospitals and grocery stores.

November 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Service opportunities abound in foodservice

But it's also evident even in more expensive establishments. My wife and I have been disappointed for a wide variety of reasons, often because the restaurant didn't have the meal that we ordered from the menu.

November 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging slims down

Fluidmaster's recent redesign of the blister package it uses for its flush valves resulted in a blister pack that's 20% to 30% more compact than the previous package, according to the San Juan Capistrano, CA-based company.

November 30, 1999

Sustainability

California battle looms over plastics recycling

Plastics recycling and recycled content of containers initiate new legislative conflicts in California. Industry and environmentalists appear polarized, as legislators look for common ground.

October 31, 1999

Flexibles

Aseptic filling sans sterilants

When a Colombian beverage marketer became the first to produce a packaged version of the popular Avena drink, the company used aseptic technology that was simple and secure.

October 31, 1999