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Secondary Packaging

Case packers provide production uptick at Royal Wine

Wine, spirit, and liqueur company installs new automated case packers that more than double its capacity, opening the door to co-packing opportunities.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

How to land the Big Ones

Upon his return from Vietnam in 1968, Tom Bacon got his start overseeing cosmetic co-packers for Max Factor & Company.

July 18, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN plots areas of improvement for material recovery

AMERIPEN shares its analysis of the 100 Cities survey data to uncover opportunities to optimize packaging material recovery and the value proposition such opportunities provide.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

CPA Welcomes new faces with a new board, new members

The Contract Packaging Association has installed its 2013-14 Board of Directors, which will serve the association through the current fiscal year, running from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

How your growing sophistication will fuel the contract packaging transformation

In recent weeks and months, I have become increasingly more aware of a significant shift that has been occurring for quite some time now in the Contract Packaging/Manufacturing industry.

July 18, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Evergreen Packaging enters license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies

Evergreen Packaging to explore the development of cupstock products using EarthCoating® technology, a mineralized barrier coating for paperboard materials.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

How to survive co-pack industry consolidation

Over time, the ownership of suppliers in the contract packaging, as well as contract manufacturing industry, has evolved.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

Team approach to outsourcing brings new juice brand to market

Blending a business plan as unique as its all-natural juices, Fave Juice finds a novel approach to outsourcing—from packaging to full operations management.

July 18, 2013

Material handling

Redefining the outsourced supply chain

To state the obvious, contract packaging is rapidly evolving. Perhaps the hardest aspect of a co-pack partnership is finding the right fit in the first place.

July 18, 2013

Sustainability

Collaboration enables sustainable win

Partnership inspired by Walmart’s sustainability efforts rolls out program in Canada to enable increased recycling of nonbottle rigid thermoform packaging, with great success.

July 17, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Festo: Heavy-duty toothed belt and ball screw electric actuators

Featuring recirculating ball bearing guides that help absorb lateral forces and torques, Festo’s EGC-HD (heavy duty) toothed belt and ball screw electric actuator also delivers the same high speed, response, and dynamic rigidity of the EGC model, and adds load-bearing capacity to its specifications–twice the load bearing of the EGC actuator.

July 16, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

New campaign seeks to make recycling a daily social norm

Public service advertising campaign from Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council, includes a new website, a localized search tool for recycling information, and more.

July 15, 2013