Sustainability

Pour spout

Seaquist Closures’ new Ultra Pour Spout brings aesthetic and environmental benefits to food companies and consumers.

March 4, 2008

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Flexibles

Films with high COF

Pliant has introduced a family of films with unique properties designed to improve converting and packaging processes.

March 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Retail quick-comply kits

Lowry Computer Products has launched Lowry Quick Comply Kits, a complete suite of products designed for suppliers to comply with RFID mandates from Sam’s Club and other large retailers.

March 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Hand-held programming unit

Turck offers a new hand-held unit to program data carriers with its new BL ident RFID system.

March 4, 2008

Sustainability

Wonder Tablitz blitzes NACD awards

Spray bottle with integral cavity wins year's top honor from the National Association of Container Distributors.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Carpet cleaner tablet packaging helps clean up environment

The packaging concept for Capture Drop’n Go Deep Cleaning Carpet Tablets, jointly developed by Milliken Chemical, a div. of Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, SC, and North State Flexibles, LLC, has earned an FPA Gold Award in the Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Bourbon chicken graphics are intoxicating

A stand-up pouch provides an ideal billboard at retail to showcase tasty, inviting food photography and consistent, colorful brand imagery for Perdue’s Bourbon Chicken, a frozen, cooked chicken breast product.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

More consumer-convenient, eco-friendly rotisserie chicken packaging

The Hot N Handy (HNH) Rotisserie Pouch has garnered an FPA Gold Award in the Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category for Robbie Manufacturing, Inc..

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

'Full-panel' reseal realizes gold

Reseal options give companies more ways for providing consumers with added package convenience. One new technology, which adapts the entire front of a package into a recloseable panel, has been recognized with gold-level honors in packaging excellence by FPA judges.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Better bags are the cat's meow

Sometimes looks do count. Such was the case for Nestlé Purina Pet Care Fancy Feast Gourmet Gold cat food, which earned a gold for printing achievement for Nordenia U.S.A.. The better-looking bags also reflect functional improvements.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Hot pouch, highest achievement

A clever design for a pouched line of microwavable heat-and-serve sauces and gravies helped earn CLP Packaging Solutions Highest Achievement honors in this year’s FPA competition.

March 3, 2008

Flexible packaging

Nuspark makes custom packaging standard

Compact vertical and horizontal cartoning, case erecting & packing, robotic pick & place – Nuspark does it all and more. And they build customized solutions from pre-engineered packaging modules, a perfect fit for ELAU Intelligent Servo Module technology.

March 3, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

New case erector is multifunctional, flexible

Pro Pack Systems is rewriting the book on case erecting/bottom sealing with its modular, recipe-driven, servo-adjusted, print-on-demand Pro Print™ EBS 15 machine offering advanced Markem, ELAU and Nordson subsystems.

March 3, 2008