Protective/transport packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry

Indiana State University is tapping packaging resources through its new R&D Center.

August 31, 2005

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1446

Flexible packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry (sidebar)

ISU’s R&D lab has a lot on the ball

August 31, 2005

Labels

PET bottles shake up cocktail-mix market

Unique packaging hits bull’s-eye for Target stores’ liquor departments.

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Deluxe RFID is scalable (sidebar)

Deluxe testing and training

August 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

Salary levels rise, as do job-security concerns (sidebar)

Respondents serious about job security

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Special Citations

Stand-up barrier pouch for teaChaoAn Wenhua Color Print Co., LtdEasy carry package for spiritsFlex Industries Ltd.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Easy-tear material garners Gold

Designed to replace cellophane in laminations for packaging prophylactics, Alcan Packaging-Medical Flexibles Americas’ Tear Anywhere™ (TA) film is a multilayer, coextruded substrate designed to perform with similar characteristics to competitive easy-tear films.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Baby food packs win gold

A pair of 8.8-oz baby-food containers thermoformed by EDV from a polypropylene/ethylene vinyl alcohol/polypropylene coextrusion won a Gold Award from DuPont judges who admired not only the containers’ design and structural properties but also how efficiently cup manufacturing is done.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Stand-up pouch with built-in straw

Made with a film structure of DuPont Teijin PET film and Dow PE resins, the novel pouch package design lies in a patented built-in straw. Because the straw is inside the pouch, it won’t get detached and lost and it’s protected from contamination.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Low-profile, soft-grip package opens new markets

O’Keeffe’s Co., Inc., Sisters, OR, has tapped more deeply into target markets for its hand and foot crème balm products by introducing alternative packaging for the hardware/home center channel.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Reducing leaks in meat packs

ClearShield™ shrink bags developed by Alcan Packaging offer bone-in meat packagers an alternative to more traditional shrink film bags that need to incorporate “patches” or “caps” strategically applied to the bag exteriors to prevent bones from puncturing the film and creating package leaks.

August 31, 2005

Closures

Plastic brings weight and cost reductions

A plastic-for-glass replacement on a line of high-end cosmetics products sold by Maria Galland of France won DuPont silver for Ileos. Cost savings of up to 20% depending on size were achieved when the switch was made.

August 31, 2005