Controls & Machine Components

Red Lion appoints new president

Jack Lee succeeds Mike Granby, who served as Red Lion’s President for 17 years.

October 27, 2016

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Sustainable Packaging

Walmart reignites ‘passion around packaging’

Walmart unveils a Sustainable Packaging Playbook for its suppliers with best practices highlighting three directives: source sustainably, optimize design, and support recycling.

October 26, 2016

Material handling

Study reveals best practices for time/temperature-sensitive biologics

BioLife Solutions and Brooks Life Sciences Partner on Study of Best Practices for Shipping and Storing Time- and Temperature-Sensitive Biologic Materials.

October 26, 2016

Contract Packaging

CPA enhances membership model

The Contract Packaging Association (CPA) launches a new membership model that includes many fresh and enriched programs to serve its members and the industry.

October 26, 2016

Contract packaging

Pharma to lead U.S. packaging growth through 2020

Although food packaging is projected to remain the largest market by demand, pharmaceutical packaging will rise the fastest, despite price pressures.

October 25, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Krusteaz bakes up mouth-watering design

Baking mix brand brings authenticity to its new packaging design, creating emotional drivers that conjure up delicious taste, and the warmth and smell of an oven baking.

October 24, 2016

Flexibles

Socioeconomic trends drive global growth of plastic films

Among them, economic influences, lifestyle and demographic changes, the development of new materials and packaging technologies, and emerging trends in end-use markets.

October 23, 2016

Containers

FDA addresses medical device tubing misconnections

Often packaged together or co-packaged with other devices, tubing sets can be connected improperly, causing meds or other substances to be delivered through the wrong tubing into the incorrect area of the body.

October 20, 2016

Secondary Packaging

CSi Palletizing makes North American landfall official

CSi Palletizing, headquartered near Rotterdam, Netherlands, officially cut the ribbon last week on its new North American Palletizer Assembly Center (PAC), located in Querétaro, Mexico.

October 20, 2016

Operational Excellence

The EMVO’s centralized approach to meeting the Falsified Medicines Directive

With the 2019 EU-FMD deadline looming, this non-profit has created a centralized hub for manufacturers and countries to connect to in the effort to streamline verification of medicinal products in Europe.

October 20, 2016

Contract Packaging

CPA unveils new membership model, logo...and something more

The Contract Packaging Association has a new value-added membership plan, a new logo and a new tagline to reflect manufacturing's role in the mix of services its members provide.

October 19, 2016

Containers

Intermediate bulk containers

IBCs are exerting wide-ranging impacts across diverse industries, on both the user and supplier sides.

October 19, 2016

Cartoning

Pharmaceutical blister machinery revolution in Italy

Marchesini Group Open House focuses on blister and deep-draw thermoforming lines. Event to culminate in the inauguration of an industrial complex for building pharmaceutical packaging equipment in Carpi.

October 18, 2016