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

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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

Beverage

Packages earn NACD awards recognition

NACD Packages of the Year honored this month highlight innovation, sustainability.

May 31, 2008

Dairy

CSPI: 'Alcospeed' beverages unsafe in any package

The Center for Science in the Public Interest targets alcoholic energy drinks and their packaging.

May 31, 2008