Flexible packaging

Carrying a torch for sustainable packaging

A switch to PET jug preforms for lamp fuels improves sustainability and reduces in-transit package damage.

August 3, 2009

Rigid: Page 180

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Candy maker refines packaging flexibility

Fully automated, easily programmable form/fill/seal/print systems reduce labor costs and packaging material waste.

August 2, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Has the bloom gone off China's rose?

Could the rush to China be over? Are tasks once sent there showing signs that now is the time for them to be reeled back in?

August 2, 2009

Labels

Paper pack gives way to plastic tube

Package design expertise brings a modern twist to an old favorite.

August 1, 2009

Cartoning

Minor change saves $500,000/yr

In a follow-up discussion, this medical device manager elaborated on his response by adding the following details: “This project involved going from packages as singles to groups of five, and then someone suggested we could carton them at that point.

July 3, 2009

Sustainability

Lessons learned from your best projects

Packaging professionals share their best experiences with projects—and what they learned.

July 3, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Sara Lee speaks on three-pronged green goals

In an exclusive interview, Sara Lee Corporation’s director of packaging innovation and development shares the company’s strategy surrounding sustainability.

July 2, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation

Product development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation, says Packaging Hall of Fame inductee Edward J. Bauer, senior director, product and package innovation and development, for Pittsburgh-based General Nutrition Centers.

July 1, 2009

Filling/capping, dry

Cozzoli Machine Co. to produce sterile powder filling line

Now in development from Cozzoli Machine Co. is a line for filling antibiotic powders into vials in a sterile pharmaceutical environment.

June 24, 2009

Sustainability

Sustainable packaging-many ways to skin this cat

Coca-Cola, Sara Lee, and ConAgra are putting a lot of thought into sustainable packaging initiatives. Consider these ideas as you ponder your own carbon footprint.

June 23, 2009

Containers

Silgan wins 16th consecutive Hormel Spirit of Excellence Award

Silgan Containers was recognized by Hormel Foods with its Spirit of Excellence Award for the 16th consecutive year.

June 16, 2009

Containers

Where are the jobs?

With unemployment at an all time high since the Great Depression, people are asking, where are the packaging jobs?

June 5, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

It's all about precision and timing

Six-cavity thermoformed cassettes used for clinical blood testing require careful handling during packaging. This controls solution delivers.

June 5, 2009