Secondary Packaging

Langen Group's automated cartoning for flow wrapped products

Langen Group offers a variety of solutions for secondary packaging of flow wrapped products. They offer proven solutions that support low, medium and high speed wrappers. Langen's quick change-over hygienic designs are easily capable of handling a variety of pack configurations including flat and edge packs.

April 7, 2015

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 744

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sato names new Head of North America

SATO appoints Michael Beedles as new Head of North America and President of SGS

April 7, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Yaskawa: New controller, I/O and software products

Yaskawa America, Inc. announces three new motion control products, each of which is designed to improve the performance of automation systems, and to compound the improvement in system effectiveness when used in combination.

April 7, 2015

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Astra Zeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis win HCPC honors

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council unveils the most innovative pharmaceutical packages designed to improve patient adherence.

April 6, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA issues final guidance on the evaluation and labeling of abuse-deterrent opioids

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on April 1, 2015 issued a final guidance to assist industry in developing opioid drug products with potentially abuse-deterrent properties.

April 5, 2015

Operational Excellence

The Heinz-Kraft merger from a packaging perspective

Heinz 57 would be an underestimation of the number of issues facing the company resulting from its merger with Kraft Foods.

April 3, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Douglas' TriVex® RLi top load case packer fulfills customer need with integrated erect, load, and seal

Douglas' TriVex RLi fulfilled the customer's need of an economical solution with a small footprint. The built-to-last Douglas top load case packer utilizes robotic staging and loading, eliminating the traditional cross-push section, saving valuable customer production floor space. The integrated platform efficiently erects cases, loads cartons in multi-tiers, then seals and discharges.

April 2, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Evolving recycling stream is subject of new report

Report looks at recent and anticipated changes in municipal solid waste streams, principally plastics, to foster greater understanding among supply chain members.

April 1, 2015

Flexibles

Bread bag is 36% bio-based

Eureka! Organic Bread switches to bread bags made of 36% sugarcane-based PE when introducing its products to the East Coast market for marketing and sustainability benefits.

April 1, 2015

Labels

Redesigned sunscreen label conveys brand essence

Clearing the clutter on the label for its line of mineral-based sunscreen products, Goddess Garden Organics emphasizes the brand while organizing product benefits.

April 1, 2015

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Single-serve wine gets its own line

Expanding from 4,000 cases in 2012 to 40,000 in 2013, Stacked Wines engineers a proprietary packaging line to bottle its single-serve PET-based wine containers at 180 bottles/min.

April 1, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

The future of machine programming is FAST

ABG reduced design time and costs with Application Templates that lead to software modules so modular in nature that they are effectively autonomous programs in their own right.

April 1, 2015

Containers

Beet branding extends to juice

Love Beets introduces new PET bottles for its established beet beverages and a glass container for an organic launch, with graphics consistent with its ready-to-eat beet packaging.

April 1, 2015