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Insights from Coca Cola's Director of Sustainable Packaging

During an exclusive interview with Packaging World, Coca-Cola's Director of Sustainable Packaging Scott Vitters shared insights from the company's more than four decades involvement with sustainable packaging and lifecycle analysis.

March 18, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable practices go mainstream

With 60,000 suppliers seeking high marks on the Wal-Mart scorecard, can anyone doubt that sustainable packaging is here to stay?

February 9, 2007

Sustainability

Sustainable packaging...where are the uprights we're aiming for?

There is no question that throughout the past year sustainability was a dominant theme in the U.S. packaging arena. After many years of limited progress in truly addressing the issues of the environmental impact of packaging materials, a number of consumer product companies and retailers, led by Wal-Mart, have started to take concrete steps to do something about it. We applaud this effort. It’s driven by the concept of sustainability in its entirety, which goes well beyond packaging.

February 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Co-manufacturer help sambazon forge ahead in low-acid aseptics

California acai marketer taps Aseptic Solutions, which is poised to become a rare U.S. company capable of aseptically filling, low-acid products on a high-speed rotary filler.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Biomedical Products Marketer Saves Big With High-Tech Aerogel Cartons

Can thermal-insulated containers increase co-packing's value? American Aerogel's containers cut Advanced BioHealing's shipping costs 40%.

December 19, 2006

Labels

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Vital issues include validation, FDA regulations, counterfeiting, and the challenges of shipping pharmaceuticals and biologics through the cold chain.(Part I of II)

December 18, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Answering innovation's challenges

Pick a leader to champion your cause, prove out your ideas with senior management, and observe ‘category cues' while pushing beyond them, say the experts.

December 18, 2006

Contract Packaging

Club Stores: Show us the value

Display pallets and promotional packaging—two specialties of co-packers—are gaining steam as merchandising tactics. A third tactic, sustainability, is just getting legs.

December 12, 2006

Flexibles

Costco unboxed

Out-of-the-big-box eco-thinking drives Scott Carnie­—and new packaging—at Costco.

November 5, 2006

Bio-based

Biodegradable film introduced in UK...

Innovia's NatureFlex films, made from cellulose derived from wood pulp, can be used for packaging fresh foods. In addition to being biodegradable, the film is also compostable. It provides improved dimensional stability under chill conditions, the company claims. Sainsbury's is among the first to adopt the film as a means of cutting packaging waste.Source: foodproductiondaily.com/europe

October 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Environmentally-Friendly Shrink Packer

Polypack worked in collaboration with Plastic Suppliers, Inc., Earth-First® PLA film, made with NatureWorks® PLA resin to develop a series of shrink packaging machines capable of running Earth-First® PLA film.

October 31, 2006