Sustainable Packaging

Industry seeks major changes to EPA guides on enviro-preferred products

Major components like lifecycle analysis, third-party certification and objectionable characteristics are being challenged.

May 31, 1996

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Coffee marketer launches shapely can

Shaped cans have attracted plenty of attention lately, particularly the cans tested by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. in Europe (see PW, April '96, p.

May 31, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Defining 'recyclable'

Might manufacturers expect a uniform standard on how many people must be able to recycle a material before it can be labeled recyclable?

May 31, 1996

Closures

New bottle adds nice touch

With the March restaging of its Ice Cap(TM) line, hair care product manufacturer Graham-Webb Intl., Plymouth, MN, became one of the first users of VelvaSoft(TM) packaging.

May 31, 1996

Sustainable Packaging

California law repeal?

The bill that would repeal California's rigid plastic packaging container program remained in a State Senate committee at press time, after passing the Assembly.

May 31, 1996

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Quantum Chemical Co. (Cincinnati, OH) has sold its Heath, OH, plastics recycling plant to a newly formed company, 3DM LLC.

May 31, 1996

Home

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Smurfit Recycling Co., a div. of Jefferson Smurfit Corp., (St. Louis, MO), has purchased nearly 12 acres of land to build a new 110ꯠ-sq-ft recycling facility; the company has also opened a new 120ꯠ-sq-ft recycling facility in San Jose, CA.

April 30, 1996

Containers

Issue backgrounder

The National Paint and Coatings Assn., Inc. (Washington, DC) has released an issue backgrounder, Packaging Solutions and the Coatings Industry.

April 30, 1996

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging is focus at Lipton's new tea party

A new rectangular paperboard can, new graphics, new glass jars, even some product reformulation, are all part of a major remake for Lipton powdered iced tea mix. New Natural Brew line aims at ready-to-drink market.

April 30, 1996

Home

Europe moves forward on disposal laws

As EU member nations work to meet the packaging waste directive, U.S. manufacturers are increasingly concerned that laws will discourage packaging innovation.

April 30, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U.S. companies say Eco-labels have hollow echo

U.S. Trade Representative presses European Union to endorse labels with descriptive language. Threats of trade retaliation ups the ante.

April 30, 1996

Flexibles

NEC suspends material costs

A new type of suspension pack outperforms its predecessor at a 20% cost savings for NEC Technologies' notebook computers.

April 30, 1996

Sustainability

All-paper blister pack a reality in U.S.

Sally Hansen nail fortifier from Del Laboratories is one of the first U.S. mass-market applications for an all-paperboard blister pack.

April 30, 1996