Conveying & Product Handling

Raising the bar on safety

A confectionery manufacturer installs 19 metal detectors at six of its production plants to ensure product quality.

April 5, 2009

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Prepared & Canned Foods

Recycled PET roll stock

IPF Integrated Packaging Films' ECO-THERM 100% Post Consumer Recycled content PET roll stock is produced 100% from recycled water, juice, soda and sports drink bottles.

April 4, 2009

Beverage

Tropicana is first U.S. brand to be Carbon Trust-certified

Carbon footprint certification gives PepsiCo a benchmark for greenhouse gas reduction.

April 4, 2009

Dairy

In Japan, fruit juice comes in fruit-like packaging. . .

Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has come up with a new way to sell fruit juice—make the package look just like the real thing!

April 1, 2009

Beverage

Half-liter Aquafina lightens up

PepsiCo achieves a ‘sustainable design trifecta’ with the lightweight, 10.9-g Eco-Fina bottle.

April 1, 2009

Beverage

First ARC Forum to address packaging innovation

For the first time, the ARC Automation Forum devoted an entire track to packaging machinery.

March 30, 2009

Conveying & Product Handling

Video: robots for rainbow packs

To improve profits on variety packs, new robots automate the re-packing process.

March 19, 2009

Beverage

Polypack provides shrink bundling solutions for both distribution and retail

Eliminate packaging waste with a Polypack!

March 4, 2009

Beverage

Edson Packaging adopts global business model

At automation forum for CPGs, Edson and Schneider Electric demonstrate partnership to develop and support global packaging solutions.

March 2, 2009

Beverage

Data, data, everywhere

Like most Irishmen of her generation, my grandma had countless snatches of poetry tucked away that she’d unleash on us kids if she felt the occasion called for it.

March 1, 2009

Beverage

Aluminum-look PET beverage bottles

Bottle and holographic label provide points of difference for Code Blue 'recovery' drink.

March 1, 2009

Beverage

Two-ounce PET bottle

Silgan's 2-oz. PET Boston Round bottle is targeted primarily to the energy drink market, though it can also be used for smaller-sized personal care products such as product samples and complimentary amenities products.

March 1, 2009

Beverage

MSU presents holistic approach: announces new industry 'think tank'

The approximate 100-person attendee list for Michigan State University's second annual Packaging Executives Forum read like a who's who of consumer packaged goods companies and packaging suppliers.

March 1, 2009