Sustainability

Sustainability's impact on machine design

Packaging machinery OEMs are finding that when it comes to sustainable packaging, they can help customers accomplish goals just as surely as suppliers of packaging materials can.

October 4, 2008

Sustainable Packaging: Page 467

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo---a spotlight on green

Change, Innovation, and Sustainability are the key themes of this year’s Conference at Pack Expo. But conference speakers will shine the brightest spotlight on sustainability.

October 4, 2008

Closures

Muse puts the fun into functional wine packaging

Solomon Wine Co. releases a display-ready case of carrier-packed wines topped with an easy-to-reuse ‘cork.’

October 4, 2008

Labels

Bottle as art grows Mountain Dew's market share

Limited edition aluminum ‘bottlecan’ series expanded from six to 12 labels.

October 3, 2008

Flexibles

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Setting a brand apart through effective sustainable packaging

A growing number of companies are focusing on sustainable products and processes to reduce their impact on the environment, improve efficiency, and strengthen their brands.

October 3, 2008

Flexibles

Nanotech and food

Nanotechnology holds great promise in the food packaging arena.

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID to the core

Sonoco Products Co., Hartsville, SC, adds RFID technology to the fiber-based cores it provides the paper industry using a solution from IPICO (www.ipico.com).

October 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Fishing for customers

Ronnie Wrenn waits patiently for retailers and consumers to catch on to fresh, never frozen case-ready seafood from his company, Fresher Than Fresh, which provides its products in modified-atmosphere packaged overwrapped trays (see www.packworld.com/casestudy-26065)

October 3, 2008

Recycling

ConAgra adds PCR content to frozen-meal trays

New trays for Marie Callender's and other products to divert 8 million lb of PET from landfills.

October 2, 2008

Flexibles

Wine debuts in barrier-coated PET bottles

In March 2008, Artisan Wine Co., British Columbia, introduced to Canadian markets its Painted Turtle brand Semillion/Chardonnay and Cabernet/Shiraz wines in 750-mL silicon oxide-coated PET bottles from Ball Corp. (www.ball.com).

October 2, 2008

Recycling

3-L PET jugs with auto-attached PP handles

Langer Juice Co., Inc., City of Industry, CA, is marketing juices in 3-L, hot-filled PET jugs specially developed by Plastic Engineering Technologies (407/808-9825 or 909/390-1323), Ontario, CA.

October 2, 2008

Sustainability

Promoting PLA to the consumer

The claims made about PLA to consumers differ in their relevance, as well as in their susceptibility to attacks; therefore, strategic thought should go into their choice.

September 26, 2008