Recycling

Liquid transfer system for drums

The Economic Plastic Valve (EPV) is a liquid chemical transfer system for chemicals and foods stored in plastic drums. From Micro Matic U.S.A., and molded by Minnesota Rubber and QMR Plastics, the EPV valve replaces older screw-in devices.

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Sustainability

Wal-Mart launches sustainable packaging initiative

How do you answer the CEO of the largest retail organization on earth when he lays down an environmental challenge?

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Sustainable packaging from Nestlé UK

With its recent launch of assorted chocolates in the Nestlé Dairy Box, Nestlé UK becomes the first in the UK to commercialize packaging made of Plantic®.

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Home

Qualified health claims may mislead

The Food and Drug Administration’s policy of allowing preliminary health claims on food labels if accompanied by a disclaimer may mislead consumers. An FDA working paper posted on the agency’s Web site described a study to investigate the communication effects of four means of conveying information about the level of scientific certainty supporting a health claim on the label.

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Sustainable Packaging

Emphasizing value, from design through to package disposal

Winning strategies will focus on the needs of retailers and the consumer as both shopper and product user. Co-packers will play a bigger role in the value equation.

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Flexible packaging

Look what's coming down the packaging pike

From sustainability to high-pressure sterilization to nanotechnology, developments in food and beverage packaging hold tremendous promise.

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Sustainability

Club stores consider sustainable packaging

Environmentally friendly developments gain momentum at Sam's Club and other club stores.

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Sustainable Packaging

How to achieve product differentiation? Don't stop there!

Most consumers’ shopping patterns are hardly rational. Engage them with package designs that use a consumer-focused mind-set rather than a product-oriented one.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Product focus: Tamper-evident RFID tags

Smart&Secure technology fights product counterfeiting, diversion, and tampering in the supply chain at a 10% premium to typical RFID tags.

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Labels

P-s label for returnables

Spear® and IlloSpear® have introduced ThermoWash, a p-s PP label construction that allows beverages packaged in returnable bottles to employ the same labeling techniques as 1-way containers.

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Home

Reusable packaging

Linpac offers a new group of customized solutions and services to help companies meet the demands of ever-changing supply chains. Linpac Solutions Teams help users integrate reusable pkg.

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Flexibles

Coping with change

At independent Pepsi bottler Browning Harvey Ltd. in St. Johns, Newfoundland, plant manager Gary Williams recently eliminated the hassle of inventorying returnable plastic shells for PET bottles. (This story will run in an upcoming issue.) Here Gary talks about the challenge of change in the overall packaging landscape.

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Reusable/Returnable

RFID growth at T&A

Tanimura & Antle vice president of information technology Tom Casas debriefs us with an update to the produce packer’s RFID program that was highlighted in an online article published in April 2005, T&A takes RFID into the field (see packworld.com/go/c152).

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