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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1370

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

Flexibles

Starr Ridge short bread cookies require star-quality packaging

Allen & Cowley redesigns its cookie trays to cut down on size without reducing the number of cookies per tray.

October 6, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Paul Vandenberg, creative director at i4Design (www.desi4n.com), a package design firm, offers the following worthwhile exercise: Ask yourself and your package design team, “What if?” The challenge is to use great packaging ideas being introduced elsewhere not as a template for your own projects, but as inspiration for what could be for your products.

October 5, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

UHF benefits updated

A recent white paper does much to dispel lingering myths about what UHF can't do, and does it authoritatively. It makes a compelling case for UHF­­—over HF—by companies that know the technology inside out.

October 5, 2006

Converting equipment

Packaging in India: "It's more than packs. It's package engineering."

In India, the retail boom has just started and is catching on rapidly across the east, west, south, and north zones. At the beginning of this decade, organised retailing accounted for a mere $US 2.9 billion, just 1.25% of the estimated total retail market. By 2010, it is estimated to be a $US 33-billion industry. The retail sector in India is expected to grow by 20% each year in the next 10 years.

October 5, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Joint Venture Supports Clemson's Rfid Efforts

Printpack, Inc. (www.printpack.com) and MSA Systems, Inc. (www.msasys.com) announced a joint venture to install RFID reading and measurement equipment in a new lab at Clemson University's Packaging Science Department.

October 5, 2006

Flexibles

Produce packaging demand rising

More healthful eating habits and convenient, ready-to-eat fresh produce are driving the demand for produce packaging in the United States.

October 5, 2006

Flexibles

McCormick spices up packaging

McCormick & Co. of Baltimore, MD, has introduced two more packaging innovations besides the finishing sauces the company introduced recently in microwaveable stand-up pouches (see packworld.com/go/20999).

October 5, 2006

Converting equipment

Revised Packaging Machinery Standard Available

A revised ANSI/B155.1-2006 safety standard for packaging and packaging-related converting machinery was published by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (www.pmmi.org).

October 5, 2006

Flexible packaging

Gel sports reclosable stand-up pouch

Amino Vital Jel from Ajinomoto USA, New York City, sports something new in the energy gel market: a reclosable pouch.

October 5, 2006

Tamper-evident machinery

Protecting food from terrorists

If we knew how they'd come at us, it would make stopping them a lot easier.

October 5, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Eco-friendly film-card pack

Applications are imminent for this 'new generation' carded package that combines a printed die-cut card with a corn-based PLA film.

October 3, 2006