Contract Packaging

Club Stores: Show us the value

Display pallets and promotional packaging—two specialties of co-packers—are gaining steam as merchandising tactics. A third tactic, sustainability, is just getting legs.

December 12, 2006

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1360

Secondary Packaging

Stretchable Tape Load Containment System

3M offers its Stretchable Tape Wrapper for load stability with ventilation for quality produce.

December 8, 2006

Closures

Easy dispensing improves spring cleaning

The cap used on Capture Carpet Cleaner helps Milliken Chemical gain consumer satisfaction.

December 6, 2006

Labeling

Intelligent Servo Modules make packaging machines simpler, compact, modular, agile

Pushing ‘light years beyond' previous integrated servos, ELAU's new Intelligent Servo Modules change how packaging machines are designed – yet again. ARC analysis reports ELAU ‘is showing the motion control market how to design product.'

December 4, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Ring carrier's movie role is PR nightmare

The animated movie Happy Feet features a penguin choking on a ring carrier. A packaging supplier responds.

December 4, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Pack Expo video library

View packaging machinery in motion from among 32 videos from PEI 2006.

December 1, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Coding/marking capabilities video

60-second corporate capability video clip from Imaje showcases company's direct sales/service model, product line, and global reach.

December 1, 2006

Flexible packaging

CP is first to launch CR/SF packaging system

Healthcare contract packager TestPak unveils its child-resistant, senior-friendly line at an October open house.

November 27, 2006

Flexibles

Salad bags get tape reclosure

Langmead Farms-brand bagged salads, marketed by the UK-based store chain Tesco, are packaged in new, consumer-convenient, reclosable film bags.

November 20, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Pack Expo sets high expectations for machine innovation

Highlights included fast and adaptable robots, intelligent servo modules, machines communicating to PDAs, plug-and-play machine modules…and the event of the year, hosted by ELAU at House of Blues® Chicago.

November 20, 2006

Containers

Sun block in a tottle

Agility Sports, LLC, Grand Rapids, MI, launched its NASCAR-branded Race Face Sun Block in unique packaging.

November 16, 2006

Contract Packaging

Is aerogel ready for a bigger role packaging?

The time may be right for aerogel , also known as "frozen smoke" and around since the 1930s, to play a greater role in shipping containers.

November 15, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

PLM and packaging

How Product Lifecycle Management can help packaging: An interview with PLM provider Agile Software.

November 13, 2006