Sustainability

Sustainability News & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

January 8, 2009

Materials: Page 463

Labels

DPT, Med-Health Pharma shed light on authentication solution

A pervasive air of secrecy makes trends in brand protection tough to track. But the following two pharmaceutical-based authentication efforts by DPT Laboratories and Med-Health Pharma shed light on some of the solutions being explored to combat counterfeiters, diverters, and gray marketers who appear to be broadening their horizons. (Alan Green, logistics director for DPT Laboratories, will discuss how the contract developer, manufacturer, and packager is implementing brand-protection strategies at the Brand-Protection Packaging Forum May 5, 2009 in Chicago.)

January 8, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Costco snack pack operations

Costco’s in-house production for tubed snacks relies on three f/f/s units and four pick-and-place robots to produce a 24-count variety pack.

January 7, 2009

Secondary Packaging

PCP 'can' do RFID

Pacific Coast Producers fills metal cans that hold lots of liquids.

January 7, 2009

Labels

FDA official analyzes current and future food safety efforts

The problem with thinking about how to protect the nation’s food supply is that when you get into it a little bit, it’s pretty frightening.

January 7, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

P&G employs sustainability in Prilosec package redesign

Easier-opening package meets consumer needs, says John Eadicicco, section head—Health Global Package and Device Development at Procter & Gamble.

January 7, 2009

Additives, coatings & inks

FDA addresses its Science Board findings on Bisphenol-A

After giving a thumbs-up to the use of Bisphenol-A (BPA) earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took heat because skeptics believed the agency’s decision was based on a government report written in part by the plastics industry.

January 6, 2009

Flexibles

Alluring label graphics for new fruit smoothies

In June 2008, Sunny Delight Beverage Co., Cincinnati, OH, introduced a new line of nutritious fruit smoothies called FruitSimple in 40-oz, custom-curved PET bottles supplied by Graham Packaging (www.grahampackaging.com).

January 6, 2009

Flexibles

Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles

. Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, is marketing selected beers from its repertoire in private-mold 750-mL glass bottles supplied by United Bottles & Packaging (www.unitedbottles.com), the North American distributor for the glass producer Wiegand & Soehne GmbH & Co. KG of Germany (www.wiegand-glas.de).

January 6, 2009

Sustainability

Oxo-biodegradability?

I didn’t even know there was an “oxo-biodegradable PET plastic movement” until a December 3 email notified me of its existence.

January 6, 2009

Flexibles

Gillette shaves material from razor packs

P&G company changes from traditional clamshells to a tear-resistant combination structure.

January 5, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

For cubing, future looks DIM

Given the new carrier rules, your company's approach to determining cube for shipments had better be on the square.

January 4, 2009

Sustainability

WRAP extends enviro wine program to U.S.

U.S. wineries can save costs and the environment via a new international cross-industry project,  GlassRite Wine.

December 29, 2008