Sustainability

Locked4Kids carton earns AmeriStar ‘Best of Show’ Award

IoPP reveals the winners of the 2017 AmeriStar Package Awards Competition, with the top award going to a child-resistant, senior-friendly reclosable pharmaceutical package.

May 26, 2017

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Cartons and boxes

Jospak: Fiber-based food tray

The fiber-based tray provides a large printable surface for product messaging, and it is hermetically sealed with lidding film, which makes the tray suitable for modified atmosphere packaging.

May 24, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Medichecks’ new packaging sets the standard in home blood testing

User-friendly, multi-functional and attractive new packaging aims to make blood tests easier and more accessible.

May 23, 2017

Cartoning

Bayer’s ‘Shamrock’ package cures design headaches

Cloverleaf-shaped strip-pack, customized machinery provide peel-open consumer convenience and market differentiation for fast-acting Bayer aspirin.

May 16, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Simplicity Sells Booths’ Own Brand Teas

A redesign of the packaging for U.K. supermarket Booths’ own brand tea uses jewel-colored boxes with simple typography, forgoing photos and confusing category language.

May 15, 2017

Cartons and boxes

U.K. soap brand Pears plays up authenticity, quality

New packaging designed to reinvigorate the brand includes a textured finish, embossed images of the translucent soap, and a clean typeface that speak to the brand’s heritage and premium positioning.

May 14, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Cannabis cigarette box draws from vintage luxury

An affordable luxury product, new cannabis cigarettes from Toast use elegantly decorated boxes modeled after the cigarette cases of the 1920s to inspire socializing and celebrating.

May 8, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Cannabis ‘nectars’ conjure Sonoma Valley roots

Created for the discerning consumer, AYA cannabis concentrates from Sonoma Cannabis Company use cartons decorated with artwork that evokes the ‘Valley of the Sun.’

April 8, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

E-beam sterilization for aseptic packaging showcased at ProFood Tech

Tetra Pak introduces two new filling machines with electron-beam sterilization technology to round out its eBeam line. Also new, two new portion-pack carton sizes for on-the-go snacking.

April 5, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Pie packaging celebrates The Beauty of Imperfection

Eclectic and eye-catching, new packaging graphics for U.K.’s Higgidy brand of handmade quiches and pies features mismatched plates that mirror the beauty of the company’s imperfect pies.

April 2, 2017

Cartons and boxes

PaperWorks hires new director of sales for folding cartons unit

George Downey will lead the sales and business development efforts for PaperWorks’ folding cartons unit in North America.

March 28, 2017

Material handling

Smurfit Kappa Wins Best 'Transport and Shelf-Ready Packaging Solution'

NL Packaging Awards 2017 recognizes company for vertical ‘bag-in-box’ package design.

March 28, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Afton Scientific Uses Customized Serialization for Vial Cartons

Cartons and cases of aseptically filled glass vials are serialized and aggregated in advance of DSCSA deadlines.

March 28, 2017