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Greener Package
New study provides substantiation data for packaging recyclability claims and paints a national portrait of the characteristics of recycling programs offered to consumers. Just published, “The Centralized Study on the Availability of Recycling,” organized and commissioned by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, examines the prevalence of consumer recycling programs across the U.S. and the acceptance of 49 types of packaging in those programs.
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Packaging World
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Kent Quality Foods relies on properly functioning packaging equipment to ensure finished goods are packed properly and ready to enter their distribution chains. When KQF started to recognize too many cases were leaving the case packing area poorly sealed or untaped, it was time for a closer look at the case sealing system. Reworking cases was costing the company valuable time and money. Not to mention the waste stemming from resealing cases and throwing away unusable rolls of tape.
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Packaging Digest
Volcano Corp. needed a new packaging system for its Phoenix Atherectomy System, a novel catheter that cuts, captures, and clears plaque from arteries in the periphery. The first generation of clinical product was using a 5-ft-long box that took up a lot of space and was vulnerable to damage during shipping, reports Torrey Smith, R&D Engineer. But while the company sought to reduce overall material and shipping costs and reduce packaging waste, it also needed to protect the unwieldy device and its components.
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We dissociate the materials for the bars from the rest of the segment. This allows for the use of new materials (i.e. work hardened steel) and new construction methods to compose a final product of minimum weight, highest toughness, high precision, and the highest sturdiness & strength. Click here to learn more about the Durabond and durabond light refiner plates.
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The Food Institute Blog
Packaging is an important part of food products. In many cases, it can be as just as important, or even more important, than the food itself. Health conscious, environmentally-aware, on-the-go consumers are shaping the way new food packaging is made, creating a need for new labeling, materials and functionality. According to a study from Mintel, half of consumers like to buy food products that have minimal or no packaging.
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Packaging World
From consumerization to e-commerce to the evolving role of social media, there is no doubt that the packaged goods supply chain is not what it used to be, and contract packagers had better pay heed.
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Packaging Digest
Redesigned packaging from Kashi Co., Solana Beach, California, reinvents its logo and branding from the roots up including the use of editorial-style personal profile stories found on all packaging. The fresh elements and cleaner look better reflects the company’s values and basic business proposition: That food should not only taste good, but do good. "Kashi is changing the way it showcases its quality, starting with the consumer's first impression of the product on the shelves and the food itself," says Tosh Hall, creative director of Jones Knowles Ritchie, the branding agency behind the new packaging and identity.
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Drug Store News
A leading brand of consumer electronic and household cleaning products has launched a packaging refresh for its line of screen cleaners and compressed gas dusters. Dust-Off says the new packaging was designed to appeal to a wider demographic outside of the electronics cleaning market. The new designs join Dust-Off's expansive line of electronic screen cleaning products and computer compressed gas dusters.
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Packaging World
Psychology researchers have done thousands of studies showing the links between appeal and the human form. Humans find humans attractive; this is not a novel concept. Marketers and designers have latched on to this connection. Is your car smiling at you? Yes, yes, it is. Is Siri your best friend who can also do math? Apple sure hopes so. And how many times have you been tagged on social media when a friend came across your name on a soda can? We all want to share a drink with Heather. There are clever ways to pull this off without major investment. Designing your package with a human form gives it the ultimate appeal and can serve as a huge return on investment.
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In addition to being a manufacturer of quality metal, composite, and plastic doctor blades, Allison Systems now offers OEM and custom design chamber end seals.
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Plastics News
Trucost's study of the environmental costs of plastics vs. other materials released in late July didn't just focus on plastics lightweight advantages. In one example, the report looked at benefits from reducing food waste. "Food was an example we picked because there are certain foods that have very high environmental costs, especially beef and other meats," said Libby Bernick, senior vice president for North America Trucost, which did the study for the American Chemistry Council.
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Food DIVE
Though more manufacturers and consumers are aware of the potential benefits and value of renewable packaging materials, four factors may still impact industrywide adoption: Communication, complexity, cost and consumer demand, according to a new Tetra Pak report. Consumer awareness of resource scarcity remains relatively low. When consumers are educated, they are more willing to work to mitigate the situation, Tetra Pak found during its Learning Labs, which produced the report's findings.
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Adherent Laboratories can customize your adhesive formulation for a competitive advantage.
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Packaging News
API is taking its new brand enhancement creative service and holographic foils to Packaging Innovations London. API's custom decorative holography service Holonique Boutiquem offers API's specialized knowledge in the use of holography and 3D Designs, and exemplifies how, as an integral part of the product pack design, they can add the extra dimension to brands across the food, drinks, personal care and beauty sectors.
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Packaging News
The brief was to re-engage the consumer with elements best associated with the "Go Ahead!" brand, playing heavily on a green color palette. Slice Design re-designed the packaging with a robust architecture in mind which it says allows growth for NDP in future. The packaging was designed to clearly inform and educate the consumers on the nutritional content in each pack.
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Bakery and Snacks
Packaging supplier Bemis is tapping what it describes as the "Afresh" trend – growth from fresh and organic products. Bermis president and CEO Bill Austen said that part of the firm's asset recapitalization program is to be focused on the fresh and organic products market. Austen made the comment in response to Philip Ng, M.D. of investment firm Jefferies & Company, who said packaged food volumes for the U.S. have been "muted for some time," with growth coming from the fresh and organic market, and particularly from smaller businesses.
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