Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability crossroad

In 2006, ordinances in California called for a ban on the use of foam polystyrene for food packaging and mandated biodegradable replacement products.

April 5, 2009

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Additives, coatings & inks

Eco-friendly plastics additives

Milliken’s Hyperform® hyper-nucleating agent overcomes variables in the waste stream to simplify polypropylene recycling while Millad® clarifying additives enable polypropylene to be substituted for clear materials such as PET, PVC, PC, PS, SAN, acrylic and glass.

April 4, 2009

Flexibles

Recycled PET roll stock

IPF Integrated Packaging Films' ECO-THERM 100% Post Consumer Recycled content PET roll stock is produced 100% from recycled water, juice, soda and sports drink bottles.

April 4, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Tropicana is first U.S. brand to be Carbon Trust-certified

Carbon footprint certification gives PepsiCo a benchmark for greenhouse gas reduction.

April 4, 2009

Contract Packaging

Report: secondary packaging under close review

With retailers demanding greater value, and bottom lines in need of reduced costs, secondary packaging is under the microscope, according to a November 2008 study from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI).

April 4, 2009

Recycling

Checking in on FDA enforcement stats

Reading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement statistics is like reading tea leaves, with all due respect to tea leaf readers.

April 2, 2009

Flexibles

A salary survey that sparkles

I’m sure you noticed a special luster on this month’s cover.

April 2, 2009

Recycling

Canadian company offers green beauty products in beautiful green packaging. . .

Founded in 1992, today Canadian bath, beauty & home retailer Fruits and Passion offers eco-friendly and biodegradable products packaged in recycled or recyclable materials to countless customers world-wide.

April 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart Box is smart packaging idea. . .

The HIDE-Pack Smart Box embeds an RFID within the box structure, providing companies with increased efficiency in the supply chain, reduced inventory costs, increased order accuracy, reduced loss due to theft and piracy, and simplified product recall, according to its maker, Krupack Packaging.

April 1, 2009

Recycling

Half-liter Aquafina lightens up

PepsiCo achieves a ‘sustainable design trifecta’ with the lightweight, 10.9-g Eco-Fina bottle.

April 1, 2009

Case/tray packing

First ARC Forum to address packaging innovation

For the first time, the ARC Automation Forum devoted an entire track to packaging machinery.

March 30, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Standardized label to guide U.K. pack recycling

A number of U.K. supermarkets and manufacturers of packaged products have signed on to participate in a new, universal on-pack recycling label program.

March 27, 2009

Recycling

British package designer makes wool "cool". . .

March 26, 2009