Contract Packaging: Page 88

Contract Packaging

Executing 'design to manufacture'

Honeywell turns to a ‘virtual factory’ in creating products that organize mom’s car. A contract packager takes the point in assuring that a design concept works in production.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

cp 07 conference - drills down on industry's hot trends

Sold-out event focuses on convergence in packaging and logistics, operational excellence, and insights from Procter & Gamble, Alcoa, Coca-Cola, and Alberto-Culver.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

DePaul Industries names CEO

David Shaffer has been appointed CEO at DePaul Industries to lead the company’s northwest expansion.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

California co-packer adding capacity

Winterborne Inc., a company that provides contract packaging, warehousing, and fulfillment services, is expanding its manufacturing capacity to produce more of its EnviroShell packaging.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Art meets science at Alpha Packaging

When Alpha Packaging opened a 120,000-sq-ft manufacturing and warehousing facility in early 2007 in Jacksonville, FL, the blow molder of plastic bottles and jars had to consider all the usual issues of designing a functional plant.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Raani moves to new facility near Chicago

Raani Corp., a certified, FDA-registered personal care contract packager and private-label manufacturer, has relocated its Chicago-based international operations to suburban Bedford Park, IL.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Cloud Packaging adds strength

Cloud Packaging Solutions LLC has acquired Automated Packaging Inc. and Nature Clan Products LLC (known together as Automated Packaging) in Winder, GA. Automated Packaging is a full-service contract manufacturer and packager of high-speed liquid filling applications.

December 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Answering the imperative for authenticity

The buzzword is innovation. In conference after conference, those who manage contract-packaging services for some of the nation’s foremost consumer goods companies have been saying they are looking to their external partners to be innovative.

December 9, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging Line Performance Workshop

A new course, Packaging Line Performance Workshop, will give packagers the skills, tools and knowledge they require to improve the efficiency of their packaging lines.

December 3, 2007

Contract Packaging

Moving up the packaging partnering pyramid

Trends in packaging create special challenges that consumer packaged goods companies can’t ignore.

November 7, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Views of a contract drug packager

Andrew Billington, operations manager at Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales, addresses recent trends in packaging.

November 7, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Video: Brecon betters blister packing

Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.

October 23, 2007