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Evolving trends shape packaging mix

From direct printing on bottles to can-to-carton conversions, packaging trends are fascinating to watch.

December 6, 2013

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Recycling

To every brand, there is a season

Find creative new ways to celebrate holidays, seasons, and special occasions through your product and packaging to keep your brand top-of-mind all year long.

December 6, 2013

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View From The Top: Taking time to tinker at Gillette

From breakthrough technology in packaging made from renewable resources to brilliant RPET thermoforming techniques, Gillette’s R&D group is hitting on all cylinders.

December 6, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Pacific Foods donates 24,000 cartons of soup per month for food bank

Kudos to Tualatin, OR-based organic food and beverage company Pacific Foods for taking a proactive approach to the challenges of food waste and food insecurity in the U.S. Last August, 2,000 cases of soup rolled off the lines at Pacific Foods, but they weren’t heading to the grocery store.

December 6, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Recycling is the new green

In 2011, while interviewing Ryan L’Abbe, Vice President and General Manager of Blue Mountain Plastics, the recycling arm of Canadian water bottling company Ice River Springs, he told me something that has stuck with me ever since.

December 6, 2013

Converting equipment

'Packaging as art' approach guides Hello Products' oral care line

Suppliers partner to speed ‘seriously friendly' oral care products to market in innovative packaging that employs shapes, colors, and recycled materials.

December 5, 2013

Operational Excellence

H.R. 3204 bill signed into law

Establishes national track-and-trace/serialization system and brings more federal oversight to large-volume compounding pharmacies that custom-mix medications in bulk.

December 4, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Is food residue a barrier to recycling foodservice packaging?

The Foodservice Packaging Institute conducts a study to understand if food contamination is a valid barrier to the recycling of foodservice packaging.

December 2, 2013

Reusable/Returnable

U.K. bread brand gift-wrapped for Christmas

A festive, Christmas-themed line of wax-paper packages for Warburtons bread gives the appearance of a gift waiting to be unwrapped.

December 2, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Global demand for biobased resins to rise 19% per year through 2017

The most rapid gains in demand are expected for biobased commodity resins such as polyethylene and polypropylene, which are just beginning to enter the commercial market.

December 2, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

PMMI joins SAVE FOOD initiative

PMMI to leverage its connections with the packaging and processing supply chain to help the SAVE FOOD initiative to create a more sustainable food supply.

December 2, 2013

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Evertis expands to accommodate sales growth

Evertis, Portuguese PET-based film producer and extruder, is expanding its production facilities and sales staff with the goal of anticipating market trends, achieving total customer satisfaction, and establishing global brand recognition.

December 2, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance formed

Eight leading consumer brand companies join the World Wildlife Fund in forming an alliance dedicated to the responsible development of plastics made from plant material.

November 22, 2013