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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Flexible packaging
Team effort builds a better zipper
Continuous Improvement Teams at Kraft Canada wouldn't rest until the leaker rate on the firm's zippered reclosable cheese packs was firmly under control.
April 30, 1995
Materials: Page 864
Flexibles
LTL shipments can now take performance packaging route
Users of performance-based Rule 180 for less-than-truckload shipments may face some obstacles. But opportunities exist to reduce transit damage and please customers.
April 30, 1995
Cartoning
Equipment made for the shade
Rising demand for its Sun-Gard solar control window film made this Florida firm take a hard look at its packaging operation. Custom-built cartoning and case packing equipment was the answer.
April 30, 1995
Containers
Beyond the 'pail'
Regulatory reformers on Capitol Hill are fond of citing ludicrous examples of government agencies attempting to regulate away every potential problem. Sometimes these stories are apocryphal.
April 30, 1995
Converting equipment
Clairol specs PCR plastic and paperboard
Substantial percentages of recycled post-consumer material are being used in the packaging of two new product lines from New York, NY-based Clairol.
April 30, 1995
Containers
8,600 canned hams recalled
Small glass shards found in two hams, one in Iowa, one in Wisconsin, prompted F.D.L. Foods, Inc., Dubuque, IA, to voluntarily recall 8길 3-lb canned hams.
April 30, 1995
Labels
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Steven Label Co. (Santa Fe Springs, CA) opened a new label design and manufacturing facility in Denver, CO.
April 30, 1995
Containers
Coke plays the nostalgia card with Sprite, too
If at first you do succeed, go retro again.
April 30, 1995
Closures
New look spurs paint sales
Its closure and container are stock items, and the label doesn't exactly stretch the envelope either. But the new paint package introduced last October by Colorations, Inc., has done wonders for sales.
April 30, 1995
Secondary Packaging
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
Klockner Bartelt/Medipak div. (Sarasota, FL): Rick Lidington, vp cartoners and systems; Dennis Calamusa, vp pouch packaging systems; Roland Kahlmann, vp Ho/oonsel Tevopharm systems; Manfred Becker, vp of Medipak systems.
April 30, 1995
Closures
Custom bottles boost promotion
Custom packaging played a key role in the success of a recent hair-care product promotion by Matrix® Essentials of Solon, OH. The firm's Vavoom(TM) and Systeme Biolage® professional salon hair-care product lines were offered in a special 250-mL promotional size.
April 30, 1995
Labels
PVC bands salon combo pack
To introduce its Altima(TM) protective leave-in reconditioner during a two-month promotion last Spring, Joico combined a 125-mL (4.4-oz) offering of the new product with its existing 500-mL (16.9-oz) Triage(TM) moisture-balancing shampoo.
April 30, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
Will UnPET expand supply of RPET?
Packagers worrying about the availability of recycled polyethylene terephthalate resin will likely be encouraged by the announcement last month that a new process for recycling post-consumer PET has been developed by United Resource Recovery Corp.
April 30, 1995
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