Labels

Medication Errors? Packaging Can Help

New FDA guidance document recognizes the crucial role of packaging and labeling, and offers some advice for using them to cut down on medication errors.

May 3, 2016

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Sustainable Packaging

Unilever urges bathroom empties recycling

To meet its goals to maximize recycled content in its packaging, Unilever needs more PCR plastics. A new campaign aims to educate consumers on bathroom empties recycling.

May 3, 2016

Sustainability

Agave is sweeter in 30% plant-based bottle

The first company of its size to switch to a plant-based bottle, Wholesome! transitions from a standard PET bottle to one made with 30% sugarcane.

May 3, 2016

Containers

Plastic Technologies teams with HRSflow and ERMO

This partnership will provide a turnkey commercialization path for single-serve beverage and food capsules.

May 2, 2016

Containers

Sam Adams launches nitro beer in a can

Samuel Adams brings forth three beer varieties under its Nitro Project, using widget can technology that delivers the same thick, creamy foam as delivered from draft.

May 2, 2016

Containers

The scoop on new kitty litter container

Private-label cat litter maker Bentonite goes from a stock to a custom HDPE container, engineering in greater aesthetics, strength, and convenience and lowering costs.

May 1, 2016

Containers

King of Beers crowns new design

Budweiser embraces its ‘macro brew’ status, redesigning its global packaging to reflect the care and detail taken to brew its beer, and its long heritage.

April 30, 2016

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Packaging trailblazer is first again

The Swedish company Gooh (short for good and healthy) was the very first company to adopt the Micvac microwave pasteurization method when it launched a range of premium chilled ready meals with extended refrigerated shelf life.

April 29, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

ACC: ‘Styrene is not polystyrene’

A statement from the American Chemistry Council advises consumers that the California Proposition 65 listing of styrene does not affect polystyrene safety assessments.

April 29, 2016

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

New twist on old favorite

Campbell Soup has completely revamped its single-serve microwaveable soup with greater product visibility as a key driver.

April 28, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Two-Way Shipper Simplifies Logistics of In-Home Test Kit

‘Game-changing’ Cologuard test kit packaging encourages early detection of colon cancer. The kit is shipped as a prescription direct to patients who then provide a sample within packaged components before mailing the kit to Exact Sciences’ laboratory for analysis.

April 28, 2016

Flexibles

Innovia Group sells its Cellophane business to Futamura

Innovia agrees to sell the Cellophane brand and assets while refocusing on polymer banknotes and BOPP films.

April 28, 2016

Material handling

Modest market demand for corrugated in U.S.

E-commerce and retail-ready applications will drive growth for corrugated boxes; folding carton demand to be sustained by the foodservice carryout and pharmaceutical markets.

April 27, 2016