Sustainable Packaging

Nespresso launches compostable collection bag for coffee capsule recycling

Made from paper-based materials with a biopolymer coating, a new collection bag for Nespresso allows Austrian customers to conveniently gather coffee capsules for recycling.

May 28, 2014

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Sustainable Packaging

Plastic packaging made from air?

IT solutions provider Dell announces its use of a carbon-negative plastic material made from air and greenhouse gases for its Dell Latitude series notebooks, in fall 2014.

May 21, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

Ecologic Brands receives financing from Kruger Inc.

Ecologic Brands completes the first close of a $7 million round of financing.

May 19, 2014

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Coke-Italy likes source-reduced bundles

What if you could bundle 2-L PET bottles of soft drinks in a way that reduced energy consumption by 90% and brought a 62% reduction in solid waste?

May 12, 2014

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Placon acquires Plastic Packaging Corporation

Seeking to offer foodservice customers a larger breadth of packaging options to choose from, Placon, custom and stock rigid thermoformed packaging designer and manufacturer, has completed the acquisition of rigid plastic container manufacturer, Plastic Packaging Corporation.

May 5, 2014

Containers

Bottles double as learning tools

In launching a healthful beverage choice for families with children, Drink Blocks LLC of Ladera Ranch, CA, opted for containers that become both a collectible toy and a bilingual learning tool.

May 1, 2014

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital keeps marching on

Digital printing is well established in narrow-web labels. But whole new digital frontiers are opening in places like direct print on PET bottles and carton creasing/cutting.

April 28, 2014

Cartons and boxes

Jack Link’s shows 'Wild Side' with retail-ready, club-store carton

Meat snacks provider switches from PVC canister to retail-ready laminated paperboard carton for club-store sales that provides greater shelf pop and improved sustainability.

April 28, 2014

Workforce

Tips on interns

As you organize your summer packaging engineer intern program this year, these three steps are important to remember.

April 28, 2014

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Conference provides a peek at the future

The Packaging Conference has established itself as a place where updates on recent accomplishments and sneak previews of new technologies are both on display.

April 28, 2014

Containers

Preform technology enables ambient yogurt product

Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer Empresas Polar has introduced the first shelf-stable yogurt in the country through its subsidiary, Pascual Andina.

April 28, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

Video: Recyclable seafood box trial a success

Global Green USA's Coalition for Resource Recovery carries out a pilot project to tackle this challenge in New Orleans: Can recyclable boxes be used to ship seafood?

April 24, 2014

Sustainability

Reduced-weight Aldi mozzarella pack

Italian manufacturer Gruppo Francia has reduced the packaging weight of Aldi’s private label ‘Cucina’ mozzarella cheese by half after switching to a SuperLight container.

April 24, 2014