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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

Contract Packaging

Video: Paint by the numbers: New line cuts costs, speeds filling

Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.

October 22, 2007

Flexibles

Honeywell's clutter-management products court 'soccer moms'

Innovation brings women to an aisle in the store—auto care—they don’t normally frequent, and integration of a network of vendors gives Honeywell a ‘virtual factory.’

October 4, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo Las Vegas 2007

The Design for Profit pavilion makes its debut at this year’s Pack Expo Las Vegas, which expects to welcome more than 25,000 visitors to the booths of 1,200 exhibitors.

September 5, 2007

Contract packaging

Dietary supplements swallow new packaging standards

Food and Drug Administration’s drive for healthy manufacturing and packaging in industry through GMPs.

September 5, 2007