Contract Packaging

Opportunity abounds; are you positioned for growth?

“Many Fortune 500 companies want to reduce costs by outsourcing as much as possible to qualified co-packers. This reassures me that we are in the right business at the right time.”

August 31, 2005

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Contract Packaging

Looking for a contract packager?

"Our mission is to help member companies establish productive links with buyers and to provide members with educational opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of their operations."

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

SIDEBAR: Winning CP business at one global products company

How does the scope of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) needs from contract packaging (CP) compare with the general trend for consumer goods companies?

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Mining opporunities at a global consumer company

Packaging needs at Hewlett-Packard, as at other consumer goods companies, offer contract packagers opportunities, if they know where to look and how to approach these potential customers.Contract Packaging magazine asked John Hayward, manager of packaging engineering at HP, to discuss where and why the opportunities for contract packaging exist inside HP and at other large-scale consumer goods companies, and how contract packagers can shape winning strategies to gain their business.

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

SIDEBAR: How CPGs can energize the IVC model

Purchasers of contract-packaging services at consumer packaged goods companies can help facilitate the IVC model by developing a network of the types of contract packagers that meet their needs.

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

SIDEBAR: Improving speed-to-market

The Integrated Value Chain increases speed-to-market for contract packagers by involving each constituent in the value chain at the beginning stages of package development.

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

Grow by becoming the value chain connector

A new package-development integration model can help CPs deliver more value.

August 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Around the Industry

Aaron Thomas Company Inc. has opened an 87ꯠ-sq-ft manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facility in Bolingbrook, IL, southwest of Chicago.

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

Creating Win-Win Scenarios

One question contract packagers have been asking me is, “How can I find out what consumer product goods manufacturers (CPGs) really want from my company, and then deliver it to them in the way that they want?”

August 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

The John Henry Packaging Group and Nutec Systems enter strategic marketing partnership

The John Henry Packaging Group, a provider of label, carton, insert, and blister packaging, and Nutec Systems, an ink-jet printer distributor specializing in Hewlett Packard thermal ink-jet technology, have formed a strategic marketing partnership that will allow them to offer high-quality, secure, digital online printing technology to help companies protect their products from tampering and their distribution systems from diversion.

August 31, 2005

Controls & machine components

4-megapixel vision cameras

Toshiba Teli America has introduced its CSB4000 series of machine vision cameras, extending the scope of CMOS camera capabilities with ultra-high resolution, FireWire® or Camera Link® output, full-frame global shutter, and window of interest functionality.

August 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Digital servo drives

Baldor has extended its MicroFlex family of digital servo drives with the launch of a new model for use with brushless rotary AC servomotors utilizing resolver feedback.

August 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: I/O slice system

B&R Industrial Automation introduces its X20 System, a complete control solution as well as a remote I/O system. System can work as an addition to a standard fieldbus to expand existing control systems, or as a complete controller, demonstrating its full performance capability when combined with X20 System CPUs.

August 31, 2005