Agenda at-a-glance

TUESDAY, MAY 16RECASTING THE ROLE OF PACKAGING INNOVATION8:45 a.m. Packaging’s New Role Raises its Standing in the Value ChainJim Peters, Director of Education, IoPP9:25 a.m.

Mar 31st, 2006

Innovation: Discovering the Opportunity

George Kress, Vice President Corporate Package Innovations, Estee Lauder Companies

9:25 a.m. P&G: The Strategy is Branding, and a Key Tactic is Packaging

Debbie Kokoruda, Associate Design Director/Design, Baby Care, Procter & Gamble

Bill Thiemann, Vice President & Director of Brand Strategy, LPK

10:10 a.m. Networking Break

10:40 a.m. Delivering the Second Moment of Truth—Consumer Insights on Packaging Functionality

Scott Young, President, Perception Research Services

11:45 a.m. Networking Lunch

Hosted by the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)

The Logistics Side of the Equation

Joan Pierce, Vice President, Global Packaging, Global Supply Chain, Colgate-Palmolive Co.; President Elect, ISTA

DRIVERS AND SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE

Track Moderator:

Tony Petrelli, Executive Committee, Paperboard Packaging Council; Vice President Marketing & Business Development, Caraustar

Track Moderator:

Eric Greenberg, Esq.,

Eric F. Greenberg, P.C.

Concurrent Sessions

1:00 p.m. How Club Stores Drive Packaging

Michael Clayman, Editor, Warehouse Club Focus

1:00 p.m. Advances in Barrier Packaging

Speaker to be determined

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers

2:00 p.m. What Women Want to See, Feel, Understand About Your Package

Terri Goldstein, President, The Goldstein Group, LLC

2:00 p.m. How Blow Molded Containers Answer Today’s Drivers

Len Kulka, Product Manager Packaging Concentrates, Clariant Corp.

3:00 p.m. Microwave Packaging Growth:Marriage of Consumer Needs and Technology

Sara Risch, Ph.D.; Director and Professor,

School of Packaging, Michigan State University

3:00 p.m. Where’s the Leading Edge of RFID?

James Higgins, Vice President, Unified Bar Code and RFID

4:00 p.m. Five Strategies to Capture Top Talent

Phil Amberg, VP Human Resources, SCA Packaging

Robert Dixon, Plastic Packaging Specialist, Management Recruiters of Akron

4:00 p.m. Packaging’s Role in Life Cycle Management

Ross Mast, Manager Packaging Application Systems, Selerant Corp.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17

GLOBAL PACKAGING’S GROWING IMPACT

8:30 a.m. Packaging Innovation for Nestlé Brands—a Key to Success in Global Markets

Philippe Roulet, Head of Global Packaging Materials & Training Nestech Ltd.

9:15 a.m. Roundtable: Managing Cost/Value Relationship Across Global Markets

Chair: David Howard, Director Advanced Packaging Technologies, Johnson & Johnson

10:15 a.m. Networking Break

10:30 a.m. Global Resin Trends: How New Sources, Industry Structure Affect Availability

Nick Vafiadis, Director, Polyethylene Chemical Market Analysts Inc.

Concurrent Sessions

11:15 a.m. Overcoming Global Packaging Barriers

Arno Melchior, Director Global Packaging, Reckitt Benckiser

11:15 a.m. Globalizing Packaging Structure:How to Transfer Design Overseas

Jake Streich, CPP, Adalis Corp.

Tom Blanck, Adalis Corp.

Noon Networking Lunch

The Future of Global Packaging

Carl Olsmats, Ph.D., General Secretary, World Packaging Organization

STRATEGIES IN SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING

2:00 p.m. Roundtable: Sustainable Packaging Opens a New Frontier

Introduction: Anne Johnson, Director, Sustainable Packaging Coalition

Moderator: Pat Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World magazine

Randy Boeller, Package Engineering Program Manager, HP

John Delfausse, Vice President Package Development, Aveda

Suzanne Fisher, Packaging Engineering Manager, Herman Miller Inc.

Graham Houlder, Global Packaging Coordinator - Foods, Unilever

Jennifer McCracken, Environmental Manager, Perseco Havi Global Solutions

Concurrent Sessions

3:30 p.m. Packaging Life Cycle Inventory—Assessing Inputs, Recycling Impact

David Allaway, Oregon Dept. Environmental Quality

3:30 p.m. Global Supply Chain Creates Shifting Dimensions in Quality

Patricia Dillon, Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse

THURSDAY, MAY 18

CONTRACT PACKAGING DIRECTIONS

8:30 a.m. Roundtable: Getting Value from Contract Packaging Services

Chair: Terry Bedell, TAB Packaging Technology

Yousef Zaatar, VP Global Packaging, Bacardi Global

Douglas Miller, Manager, Gift and Promotional Packaging, Bath & Body Works, Victoria’s Secret

Ken Baldwin, Manager, External Manufacturing, Reckitt Benckiser

Dwight Sevaldson, External Operations Manager, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

10:00 a.m. Networking Break

10:15 a.m. P&G’s Strategy on Contract Manufacturing: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future

Russ Stewart, Purchases Group Manager, Household Care, Procter & Gamble

Tom Youkilis, Associate Director External Supply Organization, Procter & Gamble

Concurrent Sessions

11:15 a.m. Value Proposition in Total Outsourcing

Patrick Floyd, Executive Vice President, Facilities Management Services, Total Logistics, Inc.

11:15 a.m. Solving the Global Outsourcing Puzzle

Robert Leftwich, President, POP-Direct

International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)

Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2011

Warehouse Club Focus

Dillon Inc.

Perception Research Services, Inc.

Advanced Packaging

Contract Packaging Inc.

Michigan State University School of Packaging

Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP)

Paperboard Packaging Council

DuPont Packaging

Videojet Upgrades the 9550 Print & Apply Labeling System with a New 6” Printhead Option

Videojet 9550 increases reliability, efficiency and productivity for outer case and bundle packaging.

Print and Apply Labeling System

Videojet Technologies upgrades its 9550 print-and-apply labeling system featuring a 6-in. printhead option and a design that eliminates the mechanical adjustments, wear parts, and failure points that can cause everyday operational problems.

C-P Flexible Packaging Invests in Photopolymer Plate Technology

C-P Flexible Packaging invested in DuPont Cyrel Easy photopolymer plate technology to enhance its high-definition and expanded gamut flexographic printing capabilities.

Production Interface

The 2200 Production Interface from Markem-Imaje is designed to minimizes case and pallet labeling downtime and rework.

Like almost all of Spacestation’s beverage output as a copacker, the company’s own Flybeverage brands—Nectr and Uncle Arnie’s—use a shrink sleeve labeling system that is flexible enough for a variety of different combinations of bottle dimensions/heights, substrates, container transparency levels, and closure styles.

Shrink Sleeve Fits Fine for Cannabis Seltzer & Soda Line

With varied SKUs for CP/CM business, plus a quickly growing in-house brand of its own, this cannabis-infused beverage producer found that shrink sleeve labeling is the right solution for just about any and all form factors, whether glass, PET, or cans.

This robot picks freshly printed cans six at a time from the vacuum conveyor discharge and places them on the infeed conveyor of the curing oven.

Breakthrough in Direct Digital Can Printing

Tonejet’s electrostatic drop-on-demand can printing technology has taken some time to mature since it first burst onto the scene. That makes this SoluCan installation awfully interesting.

Huhtamäki Decreases Plate Production Time with Flint Group Equipment

When Huhtamäki’s existing plate making equipment was reaching the end of its life cycle, it invested in a Flint Group plate making solution.

Colordyne Launches New Corporate Division and Website

Colordyne celebrated its 10th anniversary by launching a new division and website focused on print engine development and innovation.

An impressive example of what THIMM has been able to produce thanks to its digital capabilities is this package for a Danone Activia campaign executed in the Czech Republic.

Packaging Converters are Digging Digital

From a new approach to metallization to nanographic printing to digital laser scoring and cutting of printed corrugated sheet, converters agree that digital is the future.

Single-pass Inkjet Print Engine

The 2800 Series AP–Retrofit from Colordyne is a compact, single-pass print engine that can be retrofitted onto existing analog equipment.

Sales and Marketing Head Andy Staib, President Tom Staib, and TJ Staib, VP of Packaging and a fifth-generation Staib at DWS, are excited about the opportunities presented by the MPS EF SYMJET powered by Domino hybrid press.

Hybrid Digital for Craft Brewers and More

This fourth-generation supplier of custom labels helped push the makers of digital ink-jet systems until the right machines and the right inks became marketplace realities.

Shrink Labeler Offers Sturdy, Intelligent Operation

Streamlined design with as few moving parts as possible simplifies changeover and maintenance

A white-labeled replica of the original nameplate.

The Role of an Equipment Label Manufacturer: Label Spec Review

A medical device manufacturer worked with an equipment label converter to manufacture and deliver labels to spec.

Worry-Free Coding is currently offered with the Videojet 1860 continuous inkjet (CIJ) printer (shown).

Videojet Introduces its Worry-Free Coding Service

Videojet Technologies introduces Worry-Free Coding, a new monthly service designed to enhance coding performance while reducing operational stress for manufacturers.

IIMAK Announces Partnership with Leibinger

IIMAK announces its partnership with Leibinger Coding and Marking Systems. IIMAK is now a distributor of the full line of Leibinger's JET continuous inkjet printers.

All four folding cartons shown here were printed on the Landa S10 and then creased and cut on the Highcon Beam, and the run lengths ranged from 2,000 to 10,000 units.

A First in All-Digital Package Converting

This Texas converter is the first in North America to commercially operate a nanographic press for packaging. Just as impressive, carton creasing and cutting are digital, too.

Flexible Packaging for Infinite CBD Gummies

Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit

Dried flower is giving way to creams, gels, dried teas/powders and inhalers, products that doubled in growth in two years’ time. Packaging for cannabis is expanding to meet this growth.