Flexibles

Lakeside Foods steams ahead with stand-up pouches

The private-label vegetable packer offers its customers a new microwavable, self-venting format to replace steamable pillow packs.

June 4, 2009

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Flexibles

Organic baby snacks come in redundant Method packs

“Pure serendipity.” That’s how Shazi Visram, cofounder and CEO of HappyBaby, Brooklyn, NY, describes the events that led to her company’s use of rigid plastic containers from home care company Method for its Organic Puffs finger food for babies.

June 4, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Conair: DIY RFID

It’s challenging enough for a consumer packaged goods company to commit to RFID at the bare-bones tag-and-ship level.

June 4, 2009

Sustainability

Inspired leadership and the power of innovation

Now is not the time to innovate. Innovation involves risk, and doing anything even remotely risky is unwise in times of economic uncertainty.

June 4, 2009

Sustainability

Abbott develops sustainable packaging guidelines

Healthcare company revises product features and designs to limit the adverse environmental effects from manufacturing through disposal.

June 3, 2009

Additives, coatings & inks

Yellow on black coding stands out on store shelf

Ink-jet coding at 200 containers/min provides needed color plus operational simplicity.

June 3, 2009

Closures

Maple syrup producer pores over closure's benefits

Anderson’s Maple Syrup’s new closure boasts ‘no-mess’ feature.

June 3, 2009

Labels

NACD's best packages highlighted

Activate earns best of show in NACD's 46th annual competition.

June 3, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Happy Birthday, UPC bar code

GS1 celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Universal Product Code bar code on June 3.

June 1, 2009

Labels

Lighter weight proves fruitful for HDPE-bottled nectars

Currant Co. nectars, rebottled into plastic for weight savings, expand to six varieties and national distribution.

May 30, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

New delta 3 robot touts 50% higher payload

In June 2009, Schneider Electric/ELAU Packaging Solutions will launch the next generation of its delta 3 robot arm mechanics.  The P4 represents a completely new design with an unprecedented payload capacity, and is also available in a washdown version.

May 28, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Getting enough fiber

How much fiber do your corrugated boxes need, what types, and from what sources?

May 21, 2009

Containers

Silgan named Vendor of the Year by The Kroger Company's State Avenue plant

Silgan Containers has been named Vendor of the Year from The Kroger Company’s State Avenue plant, Cincinnati, OH.

May 21, 2009