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Color-shifting tottles make a splash

A colorant used in two-layer HDPE tottles and other containers of Fiji Blend tanning products produces an attention-getting color shift...just like a tan.

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Flexibles

Convenience is key

Pet-food manufacturers discuss the future of packaging and how innovation, customer convenience, and ease-of-use fit in with upcoming packaging plans.

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Labels

Sensing success

Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed for contract packagers.See video

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Flexible packaging

Co-packing suits these packagers

Representatives from Stonyfield Farms, DreamPak, and SipTop describe why their firms pack for other companies, and how they price those services.

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Flexible packaging

Secondary packaging is primary for ARI

Side-seal horizontal wrappers and PVC film help contract packager ARI thrive by meeting the secondary packaging needs of its customers, which include many of the nation’s largest consumer products companies.See in-plant video

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Flexible packaging

SouthPack serves up three pavilions

Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.

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Sustainability

FDA's 'fast track' isn't always

Industry and agency consider ways to reduce delays in 120-day packaging approval program.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

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Closures

Shaped aluminum bottle energizes Snapple's Elements

Aluminum containers continue to boost the energy drink category. Elements Beverage division of the Snapple Beverage Group, White Plains, NY, is using marketing alchemy to switch bottles of its Elements energy drinks from glass to aluminum.

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Flexible packaging

High-performance laminations

Valéron Strength Films (Houston, TX) introduces a new line of high-performance laminations designed to meet high strength and barrier requirements.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blistering the CPSC

Unit-dose packagers complain that the Consumer Product Safety Commission actually inhibits the use of safer child-resistant drug packaging.

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Closures

Flint glass bottles

The Cosmetic Packaging Group, a div. of O. Berk Co. (Union, NJ), offers The Iris Line of flint glass bottles in 30-ml and 100-ml sizes.

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