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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

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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

Elegant salt grinder adds to consumer décor

With its sleek, contemporary design and removable label, packaging for Morton Salt’s new Morton Grinders line of three salt and pepper products is meant to complement consumers’ modern kitchen décor as well as add to their culinary experience.

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

How does the business of healthcare impact the environment?

Cook Medical finds that transparency between healthcare providers and suppliers yields financial and sustainability benefits.

April 24, 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

Sustainable Packaging

Foodservice packaging recycling myths dispelled

A survey of 700 material recovery facilities uncovers those factors affecting the acceptance of foodservice packaging.

April 21, 2014

Sustainability

Lighter-weight aerosol for beauty care brand

Henkel uses a new industrial aluminum aerosol can for its European beauty care brand, Fa, that is up to 10% lighter than the industry's standard extruded aluminum package.

April 21, 2014