Sustainable Packaging

Unilever commits to 100% recyclable plastic packaging by 2025

Other packaging-related goals include finding a solution to multilayer film recycling and creating a plastics protocol for the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

January 21, 2017

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 609

Converting equipment

Label converter invests in new technology

Meyers, a Minneapolis-based label, card, signage, and display company, has once again reinvested in cutting-edge technology.

January 20, 2017

Thermoform/fill/seal

Multivac makes expert support available seven days per week

Multivac’s new DirecTech service provides live, expert help during every day of the week.

January 20, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Flexible Technologies appoints VP of sales and marketing

Nicole Johnson was named Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Flexible Technologies, a new role within the growing organization.

January 19, 2017

Sustainability

P&G unveils first recyclable shampoo bottle made with ‘beach plastic’

Beginning this summer, P&G will offer its Head & Shoulders shampoo in a limited-edition recyclable bottle made in part from material collected from plastic waste found on beaches.

January 19, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Five Cold Chain Trends Shaping 2017

Heading into 2016, lifescience cold chain trends to watch included passive vs active bulk shippers and the growth of biologics and biosimilars and the patent cliff. Some of these trends will continue into 2017, but here are five additional trends shaping the lifescience cold chain.

January 19, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Modular palletizing featuring pallet generation software to increase productivity

The Robox is Schneider's most economical and portable palletizing solution. The design is able to adapt to a wide range of changing layouts, with a compact footprint and speeds up to 30 picks per minute.

January 18, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Palletizing with versatile end of arm tooling to eliminate changeover

Complex end of arm tools, designed and built by Schneider, can accommodate multiple product picks to meet your throughput requirements. Schneider-built drag chain conveyors and pallet dispensers provide a completely automated solution.

January 18, 2017

Converting equipment

Servo Drives Deliver Benefits for High-Cavitation Molds

OEM Application Note: Technology enables a more effective arrangement of mold drive shafts, belts and pulleys in cleanroom applications.

January 17, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Walmart and case coding—an update

When last we left our Walmart friends, they’d summarily issued several requirements regarding which methods of printing would be deemed acceptable where GTIN on cases of food is concerned.

January 17, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Singapore’s sustainable packaging mandate is coming

It makes all the sense in the world to get out in front of this impending regulation rather than scrambling to catch up with it after implementation has begun.

January 15, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Harpak-ULMA appoints service manager

Dave Weikel will assist in achieving the technical services operational objectives by working with his team and leveraging the tools available to deliver optimal customer service.

January 13, 2017

Containers

Hair-care line matches reformulation with fresh redesign

Along with a new formula, Rusk Sensories shampoo and conditioner gets a redesign to achieve natural botanical positioning at retail.

January 13, 2017