Recycling

Lundberg wins Responsible Packaging Award

Lundberg Family Farms of Richvale, CA, a leading producer of organic rice and rice products, is a 2011 recipient of the Responsible Packaging Award for its use of 100% recycled paperboard with 65% post consumer recycled content packaging.

October 6, 2011

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Report: EPS recycling increasing steadily for 20 years

According to the ‘2010 EPS Recycling Rate Report,’ 28% of post-consumer and post-commercial EPS was recycled last year—an 8% increase over 2008.

October 5, 2011

Recycling

evian adds a splash of fashion's influence

A new limited-edition package design for evian mineral water combines the bottled water brand’s free-minded spirit with the nonconventional creativity of French fashion design house Courrèges.

October 5, 2011

Sustainability

Method unveils bottle made from ocean plastic

Plastic retrieved from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch makes up 25% of Method’s 100% PCR-content polyethylene bottle.

October 4, 2011

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Pack Expo Las Vegas Breaks Records

PMMI, owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows, reports that with more than 26,000 attendees, 1,559 exhibitors and nearly 630,000 net square feet, Pack Expo Las Vegas 2011 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 26-28) broke its event records on these and several other counts.

October 4, 2011

Sustainability

Bristol-Myers prevails over cold chain challenges

A thermal management system helps the global biopharma company reduce its cold chain distribution costs and reap multiple benefits.

October 3, 2011

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Shipper protects protein attached to a radioisotope

Clear Vascular reports no failures for expensive temperature-sensitive protein used in clinical trials in Chile, thanks to its new shipper.

September 29, 2011

Sustainability

Vented cap liners cure container woes

High-altitude plastic bottle collapsing problems solved and product safety and brand image preserved.

September 28, 2011

Sustainability

BPA gets into court, too

Most of the discussions about bisphenol A, or BPA, in this column have been about how regulatory officials and governments have reacted to the chemical’s presence in packaging.

September 28, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Global packaging research

The International Association of Packaging Research Institutes was established in 1971 as an international membership association to promote packaging as a global science to important target groups within international organizations and research foundations.

September 28, 2011

Sustainability

A Jim Beam perspective

Robert Land, corporate packaging engineer at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., talks about trends in packaging.

September 28, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

An epistolary column

My Lead Off column in the July issue described how Ecovative LLC and others are turning to crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock. The column generated this intriguing exchange of e-mails.

September 28, 2011

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First automatic tray former for returnable plastic containers

This first of its kind tray former is ideal for fresh fruit and vegetable growers, distributors, and retailers.

September 27, 2011