Flexibles

Kraft case is strong and good-looking

Kraft Foods needed high-impact secondary packaging to contain four 40-oz slugs of premium cracker products.

June 30, 2006

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Flexibles

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference 2007 emphasizes container and material innovations

The Packaging Summit Expo and Conference, scheduled for May 15-17, 2007, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, will include even more materials and containers innovations pertinent to real-world applications – information and concepts tailored specifically for a multitude of packaging needs.

June 30, 2006

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Jekyll & Hyde glass bottles dazzle on-premise market

Unlike its namesake duo, complementary glass bottles for two-part Jekyll & Hyde distilled beverages has produced nothing but good results in the on-premise outlets that have been test-marketing the product since last December.

June 30, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

KEYS to package security

Industry experts disclose what it takes to secure packaged products in the supply chain.

May 31, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Combination products challenge packaging

Manufacturers must consider regulatory matters, materials, machinery, and sterilization methods when packaging these cutting-edge drug-device, drug-biologic, and/or device-biologic products.

May 31, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U.S. vintners bubbly over wine agreement with EU

“The Europeans will be out to force the grandfathered California wineries to cease and desist in their use of terms like champagne and bordeaux on their labels.”

May 31, 2006

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Pressurized PEN 'vessel' delivers for personal care line

Lake Consumer Products employed packaging technology and innovation to launch its line of three Beyond Fresh Intimates feminine hygiene products last May.

May 31, 2006

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NACD awards 9Lives handled container

Winner of the Bernard M. Seid Best of Show Award in the 43rd annual Package of the Year Award sponsored by the National Association of Container Distributors (www.nacd.net) is a package for DelMonte 9Lives cat food.

May 31, 2006

Closures

Apple-shaped bottles get plastic version

Watsonville, CA-based apple juice processing company S. Martinelli & Co. has partnered with Graham Packaging Co. L.P. (www.grahampackaging.com) to launch a PET plastic version of its 10-oz apple-shaped glass juice bottle.

May 31, 2006

Closures

Unilever recaps popular China shampoos

Global consumer products company Unilever has launched new packaging for Lux, one of its leading brand shampoo and conditioner products in China.

May 31, 2006

Flexibles

Chicken multipacks take wing at FMI

As seen at the Food Marketing Institute 2006 show, a line of multipacked, individually wrapped chicken breasts from Coleman Natural Foods, Golden, CO, is taking flight nationally starting this month, following test marketing in the northeast.

May 31, 2006

Sustainability

Packaging a central theme at NPE 2006

New packaging technologies take center stage at NPE 2006: The International Plastics Showcase. It runs June 19 to 23 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

April 30, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Nitrogen dosing cuts packaging costs

Indian Hills Spring Water implements liquid nitrogen dosing to avert bottle paneling or collapsing and reaps bottle weight-reduction benefits.

April 30, 2006