Secondary Packaging

Paktech's sustainability equals profitability... just ask Walmart

How can you reduce eliminate corrugate and petroleum use, 78% of your greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of your energy use? Watch this video to get the answer from Paktech, “the handle people” ... and so much more. Need convincing? Just pause this short video at 1:20 and study the Walmart eco-scoring chart at 1:20. And again at 2:20 to see how to save hundreds of dollars per truckload.

October 18, 2012

Sustainable Packaging: Page 369

Sustainability

Slim can suits Southwest Wines

Its renamed Soleil Mimosa wine is launched in an on-the-go aluminum can that provides sustainability, portability, and graphics punch.

October 17, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

New soap bottles partially sourced from ocean plastic

Eco-conscious household/personal care products maker Method offers limited-edition soap in bottle made from ocean-recovered and PCR HDPE plastic.

October 16, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability's role in meeting challenges of the future

FMI/GMA Sustainability Summit offers attendees glimpse at future trends and discusses how sustainability and supply chain collaboration can be used to address these changes.

October 15, 2012

Sustainability

Custom case saves waste for winery

A specially designed 12-count corrugated case for small-volume winery Terrien provides a more sustainable packaging solution through a sophisticated, sturdy structure.

October 12, 2012

Recycling

Safeway has occasion-based wine category all wrapped up

A new line of wines targeted at specific buying occasions stand out on Safeway’s store shelves, with their ‘exquisitely designed’ full-body paper wraps.

October 10, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

FTC 'Green Guide' revisions finalized

The final revised Green Guides largely reflect the revisions the FTC posed in 2010, with some changes.

October 9, 2012

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Industry watch

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

October 4, 2012

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Survey pinpoints 
packaging priorities

Packaging World teamed up with DuPont Packaging’s Global Marketing group to develop 
a survey asking what’s shaping packaging today and what will shape it in 2022.

October 4, 2012

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E-packaging to grow 
rapidly in the next decade

User pull for printed electronics and e-packaging is beginning to heat up, and as it does, this nascent technology could transform the world of consumer packaged goods products.

October 4, 2012

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Pack Expo is sold out

When Pack Expo International comes to Chicago October 28 to 31, it does so in record-setting style, and its Lecture Series features Dennis Miller and James Carville.

October 4, 2012

Conveying & accumulation

Filling powdered soap 'by ear'

ABVI installs vacuum conveyor and auger 
filler to fulfill government contract 
for bio-based soaps.

October 4, 2012

Cosmetics/Personal care

Güd brings ‘eco-fun’ to natural personal care category

A new brand from Burt’s Bees puts the focus on fragrance and targets a younger female consumer through bright, contemporary graphics and fun product personalities.

October 4, 2012