Beverage

Wet wipe maker pioneers 'Eco-Choice' sustainability platform

Contract manufacturer/packager Guy & O’Neill, Inc. rolls out an ambitious plan that incorporates sustainability into wet wipe manufacturing, materials, and packaging.

March 2, 2008

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Beverage

Make2Pack and PackML making inroads at P&G

Developing machine-control standards that can be widely—if not universally—agreed upon is an activity that remains near the top of P&G’s to-do list.

March 2, 2008

Beverage

Juice cooperative promotes 'All-Florida' product origins

Custom on-pack pressure-sensitive label program is easy to implement/operate and heightens consumer interest.

March 2, 2008

Beverage

Make2Pack Workshop at PAF

New this year at the May 20 Packaging Automation Forum is a Make2Pack Workshop and Connect-and-Pack TM Demonstration.

March 1, 2008

Beverage

Can graphics pay tribute to street art

AriZona Beverages rolls out All City NRG energy drinks in artfully decorated cans.

March 1, 2008

Beverage

Streamlined can wakes up coffee market

Silver Joe's Coffee shakes up the category in a patented, awarded-winning 'tear-drop' shaped can.

February 13, 2008

Beverage

WorldStars recognize winners globally

The World Packaging Organisation announces 166 winners worldwide, from Austria to Zimbabwe.

February 5, 2008

Beverage

Toying with bottle design

A playful bottle is engineered for educational, environmental, and humanitarian benefits.

February 1, 2008

Beverage

Will buzz about energy drinks impede growth?

Recent criticism over high caffeine and taurine content in energy drinks and possible links to high blood pressure and heart diseases could lead to a slowdown in the U.S. energy drinks market.

January 28, 2008

Conveying & Product Handling

Combating product separation, contamination

Seasoning blends and dry mix specialist installs easy-to-clean flexible screw conveyors for more efficient product delivery to filling lines.

January 11, 2008

Prepared & Canned Foods

High-volume retailers set the pace for packaging

Consumer packaged goods companies follow high-volume retailers’ packaging lead as they seek to align with retailer strategies, brand positioning.

January 11, 2008

Prepared & Canned Foods

Artegraft switches to copolyester for vascular graft tubes

Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.

January 10, 2008

Beverage

PLA: A converter's viewpoint

Chris Burger, coffee product manager of Fres-Co System USA, offers his take on using polylactic acid (PLA), a sustainable material derived from corn, in film structures for coffee bags.

January 10, 2008