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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Secure track-and-trace container debuts

A modular system with user-specified features can secure valuable products through the supply chain.

October 18, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Paperboard Packaging

Assorted Paperboard Packaging

October 17, 2006

Flexibles

'Molten' chocolate bar flows from stand-up pouch

Calabasas, CA-based Lava Chocolate LLC's Lava Bar is billed as “the world's first liquid chocolate bar."

October 17, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Specialty soap grows with eco-oriented clamshell

Pangea Organics, Boulder, CO, selected a molded fiber clamshell for its repackaged line of Ecocentric Bodycare organic bar soaps for environmental reasons.

October 16, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart launches plan to reduce packaging

Retailer will use a scorecard for suppliers to make purchasing decisions for packaging. New initiative aims to reduce packaging by 5% and save $3.4 billion.

October 10, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo International turns 50

The year's largest resource for all things packaging comes to Chicago with two new technology pavilions for attendees to visit. Also debuting: Pack Expo Selects.

October 8, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart tag and label

Schober USA introduces its STP (Smart Tag and Ticket Processor), incorporating the company's 2nd Generation RFID technology with the ability to read HF, UHF, and EPC GEN 2 tags.

October 7, 2006

Flexible packaging

The incredible flexible pouch

Economies of scale drive pouch costs down, while shelf appeal and convenience features deliver on the marketer's need to differentiate.

October 6, 2006

Closures

Detergent packs roll onto shelves

Packed inside an unusual conical sleeve is a clamshell or two used as both mold and container for this new kind of laundry detergent.

October 6, 2006

Protective/transport packaging

Protective Packaging

TurtlePak™ protective packaging is now available from SCA Packaging NA and will be displayed among SCA's full line of protective packaging at Pack Expo International October 29 – November 2 in Chicago.

October 6, 2006

Flexibles

Optimizing efficiency in meat packaging

Thermoformable and heat shrinkable, this newly developed film brings labor and material cost savings to a Dutch meat marketer that uses it in place of preformed shrink bags.

October 6, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

New report has Rx for drug packaging

Institute of Medicine wants more unit-dose packaging and clearer copy on product labels.

October 6, 2006