Recycling

Goya goes lightweight, moving marinades from glass to PET

New PET hot-fill technology allows for a custom six-side flat-panel design for marinade bottles that provides an iconic shape, along with environmental savings over glass.

May 3, 2013

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Containers

New HDPE bottles for new Kefir

Bio-tiful Dairy has a brand new bottle with shrink sleeve label for its new range of organic dairy drinks.

May 2, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

The importance of honoring the 'secret hero'—packaging

Past DuPont Award winners reflect on the experience of being honored in the competition, while program leader Shanna Moore provides insight on the value of recognizing packaging innovation.

May 2, 2013

Containers

Analyzing Budweiser’s bowtie can

Has Budweiser gotten bent out of shape over nothing, or are contoured cans the shape of things to come?

May 2, 2013

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Industry Watch

A quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

May 1, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Barilla: reduce, reuse, recycle

Guided by the words of its founder, who said, “Feed people as you would feed your own children,” over the last five years, Italian food company Barilla Group has made sustainability an official part of its corporate strategy. Here, Michele Amigoni, Group Supply Chain packaging design and standards director for Barilla, discusses the company’s sustainable packaging efforts.

May 1, 2013

Containers

Energy drink takes flight in slim, aluminium can

New Fuga beverage—a mix of energy and herbal ingredients—launches in a slim, 12-oz aluminium can that provides consumer appeal and recyclability.

May 1, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digitally printed shrink labels open possibilities at craft brewer

Bonfire Brewing Co. buys bright stock cans and self-decorates them with shrink sleeve labels. Thanks to digital printing, ‘we can change graphics at the drop of a hat.’

May 1, 2013

Recycling

Innovators tear down walls while planning ahead

Here are some tips to help jump-start—or rejuvenate—your leadership in managing a new package innovation.

April 26, 2013

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Visual trumps verbal in creating a memorable brand identity

Strong visual design assets stick with consumers more than verbal communication. That’s why packaging plays such an important role in the marketing mix.

April 25, 2013

Protective/transport packaging

PLA capsules adorn wine bottles

Trinity Oaks begins using compostable wine bottle capsules made from renewable materials.

April 25, 2013

Sustainability

Bonduelle launches next-gen food can

After ten years in development, the leading European food processor Bonduelle has launched a new steel food can that delivers enhanced consumer appeal together with significant environmental benefits.

April 25, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

European bottled water company is certified as carbon-neutral

Croatian water bottler Jamnica earns CarbonFree certification in North America, offsetting its carbon emissions through investments in third-party programs.

April 19, 2013