Sustainable Packaging: Page 614

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Quantum Chemical Co. (Cincinnati, OH) has sold its Heath, OH, plastics recycling plant to a newly formed company, 3DM LLC.

May 31, 1996

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Smurfit Recycling Co., a div. of Jefferson Smurfit Corp., (St. Louis, MO), has purchased nearly 12 acres of land to build a new 110ꯠ-sq-ft recycling facility; the company has also opened a new 120ꯠ-sq-ft recycling facility in San Jose, CA.

April 30, 1996

Containers

Issue backgrounder

The National Paint and Coatings Assn., Inc. (Washington, DC) has released an issue backgrounder, Packaging Solutions and the Coatings Industry.

April 30, 1996

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging is focus at Lipton's new tea party

A new rectangular paperboard can, new graphics, new glass jars, even some product reformulation, are all part of a major remake for Lipton powdered iced tea mix. New Natural Brew line aims at ready-to-drink market.

April 30, 1996

Flexible packaging

Getting the bugs out

A new insecticide from Bayer's Agricultural Div. is packaged in a protective envelope with multiple compartments that adds new dimensions to a not-so-old packaging concept.

April 30, 1996

Sustainable Packaging

Supplier news: Achievements

Matcon (Sewell, NJ) has been awarded the ISPE Environmental Initiatives Award for reduced packaging waste.

April 30, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

NACD calls cocktail mix bottle 'Finest'

Polypropylene bottle earns top award by providing functionality and contact clarity for cocktail mixes sold for on-premise use. Other easy-to-use containers also won awards, as did containers differentiated by decoration.

April 30, 1996

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Europe moves forward on disposal laws

As EU member nations work to meet the packaging waste directive, U.S. manufacturers are increasingly concerned that laws will discourage packaging innovation.

April 30, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U.S. companies say Eco-labels have hollow echo

U.S. Trade Representative presses European Union to endorse labels with descriptive language. Threats of trade retaliation ups the ante.

April 30, 1996

Flexibles

NEC suspends material costs

A new type of suspension pack outperforms its predecessor at a 20% cost savings for NEC Technologies' notebook computers.

April 30, 1996

Sustainability

Mexico beckons U.S. packagers

More visitors from South and North America are expected for Expopak '96, Mexico's largest packaging exhibition, planned for June 25 to 28. U.S. and U.S.-related companies will play a major role.

April 30, 1996

Sustainability

All-paper blister pack a reality in U.S.

Sally Hansen nail fortifier from Del Laboratories is one of the first U.S. mass-market applications for an all-paperboard blister pack.

April 30, 1996