Companies spend $130 billion a year on boxes, bags and blister packs, yet many packaged goods still remain hard-to-open, undersized, or overwrapped for the products inside. Consumer Reports took a close look at common packaging challenges ...
Robotics and automation are at the core of modern manufacturing, so when PACK EXPO owner and producer PMMI saw an opportunity to get high-school age engineers from FIRST Robotics teams involved in packaging and processing at PACK EXPO 2012, ...
Tags: Robots, Engineering, packaging
Rockwell Software Studio 5000 unified engineering and design environment , from Rockwell Automation, provides a framework for engineering collaboration. It sets the foundation for design tools that allow engineers to enter configuration and ...
Tags: automation solutions, engineering collaboration, software
Tom's of Maine, a leader in natural oral and personal care products, has partnered with TerraCycle, a recycling and upcycling pioneer, to give a second life to product packaging with the launch of the Tom's of Maine Natural Care Brigade. In ...
Tags: Recycling Initiative, Natural Care Brigade, product packaging
Officials with the 2012 Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) have awarded Universal Lubricants, the manufacturer and distributor of one the world's most advanced motor oils, the 2012 New Packaging Award for Innovation. The award was ...
Vermi T Solution is a unique gardening product geared toward consumers whose green thumbs match their green-minded appetite for sustainable products. The specially blended liquid compost, created by Vermicrop Organics, recently switched to ...
Tags: Pouch, gardening product, package
Billed as the world's fastest air-cooled induction sealer, the Super Seal Max offers 20 percent more sealing capacity (measured in either more power or more speed) due to new system components and a redesigned layout of the internal ...
Georgia-Pacific, the maker of Brawny paper towels, announces the launch of a national campaign and partnership with Wounded Warrior ProjectTM (WWP) to help support and raise awareness of the needs of injured service members and their ...
With more than 75 years of experience baking Europe's favorite cookies, Lotus Bakeries announces the release of new packaging for Anna's Thins, available throughout North American markets this month. The new packaging was created by ...
Tags: Cookies, Packaging Tin, Tin
Gold'n Plump Poultry, the Midwest's largest fully integrated chicken producer, announced a new line-up for fresh boneless, skinless breast lovers. Using feedback from a panel of consumers who said they were looking for both packaging ...
Tags: Vacuum Packs, Chicken Breast, Plump products
A specially-treated pneumatic conveying system automates the handling of high-corrosive granular material to minimize human exposure and optimize the upstream bulk bag unloading system. Process-critical components and valves are Teflon ...
While shopping for your Thanksgiving edibles this week, you might notice store shelves are already decked out with products and packaging aimed toward the next holiday—you know the one associated with trimmed trees, reindeer and a ...
Tags: Holiday Packaging, Red Bull, ChapStick
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation has announced the addition of ten new countries to its international ‘Litter Less' education campaign led by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).This addition brings the number of ...
Tags: packaging, litter education, Litter Less
Living Essentials, LLC, distributor of 5-hour Energy, recently discovered counterfeit 5-hour Energy products circulating in the marketplace. Living Essentials, LLC, acted swiftly to identify and halt the counterfeiting operation and filed ...
Tags: Energy shots, Energy products, real bottles
Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging, and food and beverage industries, today announced a new partnership with the Institute of Packaging Professionals ...
Tags: Packaging, IoPP, Industry Intelligence