Flexibles

Beer bottles get glow-in-dark label glam

Global brewer SABMiller plc is using glow-in-the-dark, pressure-sensitive clear film labels from Spear for a special promotion of Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) beers.

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Closures

Commemorative design revs up motor oil packaging

When motor sports vehicle manufacturer Polaris Industries, Inc., Medina, MN, and its motor oil manufacturer and packager Lubrication Technologies, Inc.

August 31, 2005

Containers

WD-40 develops the last straw

WD-40 Co., San Diego, CA, delivers a revamped 12-oz can with a permanently attached, built-in straw tube.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Bulk filler improves cookie packaging

David’s Cookies, Fairfield, NJ, is a major supplier of frozen, preformed, unbaked cookies to a range of foodservice customers. Until late 2004, the company had been manually packing its frozen-dough cookies into 20-lb bags in boxes for shipment.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Conical push-pull closure crowns new shampoo

When Laboratorios RTB in Spain was planning the launch of its new Giorgi Fix Out Shampoo, the company wanted a distinctive, innovative packaging look to enhance marketing of the new product.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

CCI's Rx RFID lessons learned

Last month, Cesar Castillo Inc.(CCI) of San Juan, Puerto Rico, began using a radio-frequency identification system that marries item identification with storage location to address inventory errors and inefficiencies (to read the complete feature, see page 106).

August 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Kliklok-Woodman and CMD Corp.

August 31, 2005

Labels

When insensitivity can spur development

One of the great indicators of our business heading into a new period of product development is when we continue to hear about insensitivity to higher prices for packaging materials.

August 31, 2005

Protective/transport packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry

Indiana State University is tapping packaging resources through its new R&D Center.

August 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry (sidebar)

ISU’s R&D lab has a lot on the ball

August 31, 2005

Labels

PET bottles shake up cocktail-mix market

Unique packaging hits bull’s-eye for Target stores’ liquor departments.

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Deluxe RFID is scalable (sidebar)

Deluxe testing and training

August 31, 2005