Flexibles

New News

"We wanted to make sure that if this package was the only communication a consumer got, the product just might sell itself." So says product manager Mark Younce of Jerome Foods in describing what the Barron, WI-based turkey processor wanted from the packaging it designed for a lien extention of The Turkey Store® products.

December 31, 1994

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Sustainability

P&G shows source reduction progress at Pack Expo

Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has little choice but to continue seeking ways to meet the consumer need for environmentally sensitive packaging the same way it strives to meet other consumer needs.

December 31, 1994

Flexibles

PP bottles, PET film boast PCR content

Colgate-Palmolive's Murphy's oil soap has been in translucent blow-molded polypropylene bottles for years, and the New York-based firm had no desire to switch.

December 31, 1994

Home

Uncanny reproduction

Preston, WA-based beverage company Talking Rain plans to expand its line of Sparkling Ice flavored waters, introduced earlier this year, by adding a canned version.

November 30, 1994

Home

Cost of food packaging to consumer stays stable

The 1994 Update of the Food Marketing Institute's Supermarket Facts shows that the cost of packaging consumes 8 cents of the consumer's food dollar, a figure virtually unchanged since FMI started tracking it in 1986.

November 30, 1994

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Phillips Plastics Recycling Co.(Bartlesville, OK) entered the second phase of a plant expansion that will double its capacity to produce post-consumer resin from recycled HDPE bottles.

November 30, 1994

Sustainability

Versatile vinyl clearly a winner

Innovation played the key role in this year's Vinyl in Packaging Awards competition. Some winners were decidedly "green" as well.

November 30, 1994

Flexibles

CPC takes over bottlemaking for Coastal Unilube

Continental Plastic Containers (Norwalk, CT) recently opened its 16th bottle plant (15th in the U.S.). This one's in West Memphis, AR, and it produces high-density polyethylene containers for Coastal Unilube.

November 30, 1994

Sustainable Packaging

FTC continues attack on enviroclaims

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not letting up on its attack against unsubstantiated claims that packaging is biodegradable or otherwise environmentally friendly.

November 30, 1994