Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Bar-code barriers

Pharmaceutical companies will wrestle with packaging design and production challenges over the next two years.

February 29, 2004

Contract Packaging: Page 109

Contract packaging

Rx packaging: The view from Italy

Join Packaging World's Technical Editor Rick Lingle in a recap of an early March tour of pharmaceutical companies in Italy’s "Packaging Valley."

February 29, 2004

Flexible packaging

Flexible winners strike gold

Winners of the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards demonstrate the impact of technology on the form and function of flexible packaging.

February 29, 2004

Contract Packaging

Cameron Holdings acquires Span Contract Packaging

Cameron Holdings Corp. purchased Span Contract Packaging, a contract packager for the pharmaceutical, consumer products, healthcare, cosmetic, and nutraceutical industries.

January 31, 2004

Contract Packaging

Boxed wine aims high

Walnut Creek, CA-based marketer Black Box Wines introduced last year a 2001 Napa Valley Chardonnay in 3-L bag-in-box packaging that it calls America's first super-premium boxed wine.

December 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Club store packaging and beyond

Written by Jim Peters and published by Packaging Strategies, a recent report analyzes key tactics used by high-volume retailers. Here is the Executive Summary.

December 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Pactiv (Lake Forest, IL) will purchase the plastic packaging assets of Rock-Tenn Co.

October 31, 2003

Contract packaging

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 2)

21st-century packaging machinery trends (Part 2 of a 6-part series)

September 30, 2003

Contract Packaging

EAS and partners show container dexterity (sidebar)

How EAS cuts time

September 30, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

PEF elects 'Class of 2003' Packaging Hall of Famers

Members of the Packaging Education Forum (PEF) elected Arnie Orloski Jr. (shown), William E. Archibald, William R. Armstrong, and Richard G. Lee into the Packaging Hall of Fame, Class of 2003.

September 30, 2003

Contract packaging

New facility for Panoramic

Panoramic, a packaging thermoformer and contract packager, has moved its manufacturing facility and headquarters to a newly renovated campus in Janesville, WI.

August 31, 2003

Flexibles

Robert's Packaging Open House

Last week, Robert’s Packaging held an open house for suppliers, customers, and the press at their facilities in Battle Creek, MI.

August 31, 2003

Cartoning

Cartoner speeds changeover

Third-generation, semi-automatic vertical cartoner relies on servo technology to quicken changeover and permit wide size ranges.

August 31, 2003