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Salon packages pamper as a 'lifestyle brand'

How can packaging raise the bar for exclusive salon products?

June 2, 2008

Conveying & Product Handling

New BIB wine line toasts tried-and-true technologies

Mission Bell Winery’s 5-L bag-in-box wine line serves as a blueprint for a new 3-L line that provides ‘outstanding’ sterility, ergonomics, and productivity.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

OMAC Packaging workgroup rebuttal

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

OMAC should maintain a simple focus on packaging

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

Brand - protection packaging forum

At the first Brand-Protection Packaging Forum (www.packworld.com/bppf), leading brand owners such as Intel Corp., HP, Liz Claiborne, Lexmark, Catalent (see story, page 69), Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson Medical Device and Diagnostics shared their strategies for securing brand image and product integrity using the latest packaging materials and technologies. Held at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg April 8 and produced by Summit Publishing Co. with BPCouncil.com as a supporting association, this educational and networking conference was attended by more than 115 professionals.

June 1, 2008

Beverage

Catalent expert addresses turnkey serialization

Catalent Pharma Solution’s Akan Oton provides a contract manufacturer/packager’s perspective on serialization, authentication, and track-and-trace technologies in pharmaceutical distribution.

June 1, 2008

Bakery & Snack

Beating the e-Pedigree deadline

The January 2009 e-Pedigree deadline set by California may have been pushed back two years, but that didn’t stop Biogen Idec from forging ahead with a solution.

June 1, 2008

Beverage

Sustainability News & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

June 1, 2008

Beverage

Fabric care bottle conjures cosmetics appeal

The elements of fragrance, fabric, and fashion are uniquely intertwined in a new line of "fabric enhancers" from Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble.

June 1, 2008

Beverage

Convenient closure tops Red Knot Wines

Zork screw-cap closure 'pops' like a cork when opened and is easily reinserted.

May 31, 2008

Beverage

Novel beverage vending concept

From interpack: What if a vending machine could hold some 1,500 roll-fed pouches and fill beverage products from concentrate?

May 31, 2008

Beverage

Bottle's sidewall made of film

A 300-mL bottle made largely of flexible film has a carbon footprint 50% less than the PET bottle it replaces for Belgium's WCUP.

May 31, 2008