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Section: Design > Materials & Containers
Materials & Containers
Cartons’ place in packaging
Horst Bittermann, President of the European carton association Pro Carton, shares insights on the sustainability of cartons, their use in e-commerce, and new carton technologies.
July 11, 2019
Horst Bittermann, President, Pro Carton
Materials & Containers
The case for rPET wine bottles
Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.
January 26, 2019
Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines
Materials & Containers
P&G Eco-Box irks bloggers
This just in from the department of no good deed goes unpunished.
January 9, 2019
Pat Reynolds
Materials & Containers
Key considerations for paperboard multi-pack beverage carriers
A multi-pack carrier can carry the day for the beverage marketer that understands the many variables involved.
November 29, 2018
Paperboard Multipack Coca-Cola
Materials & Containers
PepsiCo's robust recycling initiative
Tom Mooradian, Manager, Environmental Sustainability at PepsiCo, describes the PepsiCo Recycling initiative and the progress it has made toward increasing recycling rates.
March 10, 2018
Tom Mooradian, Manager, Environmental Sustainability, PepsiCo.
Materials & Containers
The buzz on a honey of a brand
Buzz + Bloom Director of Procurement Brian Showerman shares insights on the selection of the packaging and graphics for the ‘floral-forward’ honey brand.
November 26, 2017
Brian Showerman, Director of Procurement, Buzz + Bloom
Materials & Containers
The new ancient art of glass-making
The permanence of glass as a packaging material never has been “fragile” and now can be said to be “unbreakable.”
July 11, 2017
Materials & Containers
Toward a ‘clean’ label
There is no universally accepted definition for what we mean when we say “clean label.”
June 1, 2017
Materials & Containers
How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
May 17, 2017
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
Materials & Containers
Challenges and Benefits of Using ISTA’s Standard 20 for the Development of ISC’s
Standard 2D Revision 2.0 uses a QbD approach to develop insulated shipping containers (ISCs) to meet regulatory expectations.
March 21, 2017
ISTA: Best practices chart.
Materials & Containers
Hershey leads SmartLabel initiative
Announced in late 2015, the SmartLabelℱ tool allows brand owners to provide consumers with access to comprehensive product information via an on-pack QR code. Here, Deborah Arcoleo, Director, Product Transparency for The Hershey Company, shares how Hershey forged the concept and worked with industry members to launch the initiative.
September 29, 2016
Deborah Arcoleo, Director, Product Transparency, The Hershey Company
Materials & Containers
Nestlé Waters' green schemes
Newly appointed Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for NestlĂ© Waters North America Nelson Switzer talks about the company’s positions on greener packaging trends, including recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility, and bioplastics.
June 1, 2016
Nelson Switzer, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Nestlé Waters North America
Package Design
Temperature-Controlled Packaging Demands Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Highly engineered and innovatively designed temperature-controlled packaging is necessary to gain the greatest cost benefit without compromising patient safety.
May 10, 2016
Temperature-controlled packaging is necessary for many products, including the human serum samples shown here.
Materials & Containers
Medication Errors? Packaging Can Help
New FDA guidance document recognizes the crucial role of packaging and labeling, and offers some advice for using them to cut down on medication errors.
May 3, 2016
Eric Greenberg, Contributing Editor
Materials & Containers
Five Steps to Successful Sorbent Use in In-Vitro Diagnostic Test Kit Packaging
Moisture vulnerability, format, regulatory requirements, vendor partnerships and the correlation between efficiency and cost are identified as critical steps.
February 17, 2016
The round coated solid form desiccant snaps into the cavity of this diagnostic device.
Materials & Containers
Three Life Science Cold Chain Trends to Watch in 2016
Driving down costs, growth in biologics/biosimilars, and passive bulk shippers identified by cold chain veteran as key issues.
February 2, 2016
Shown here is a Credo Xtreme in a warehouse environment.
Materials & Containers
Fruits, veggies: Killer app for clear plastic cans?
Premium-grade vegetables, chunked fruit, and jellied cranberry sauce are likely to be among the first foods to be commercially packed and marketed in clear barrier plastic cans.
February 1, 2016
Ben Miyares, Packaging Sherpa
Materials & Containers
Pharmaceutical Trends Enhance Label Significance
The value of color labels as a communications tool provides benefits in patient adherence, serialization, regulatory and marketing.
January 29, 2016
Trends in pharmaceuticals further increase the significance of labels.
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