"It has been a slow path to commercialize smart packaging. Despite strong needs such as the aging population, tougher legislation, huge waste, more demanding consumers and concerns about safety and crime; commercial success has been mixed. ...
Menasha Packaging, a packaging firm based in Wisconsin, US, plans to invest $6m to expand its food packaging business. As a part of the expansion, the company will purchase high-volume printing press from Germany-based Heidelberg ...
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Packaging company in the US, Menasha has announced plans to invest $6m in a bid to expand its food packaging business. The company plans to purchase a large printing press from Germany-based Heidelberg Druckmaschinen, in addition to ...
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Single-use laundry detergent packs have been called an emerging public health hazard by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Last month, the Consumer Products Safety Commission issued a safety alert for the packs, calling them ...
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Menasha Packaging, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation has acquired the US-based contract packaging company Rand Diversified for an undisclosed sum. Menasha Corporation president and CEO Jim Kotek said the acquisition of Rand will broaden ...
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Consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) appear cautiously optimistic about business and the marketplace in general, according to PMMI's report on the Vision 2020 focus groups it conducted during PACK EXPO International 2012. Today's ...
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CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation. The analyst company is urging CIOs to focus on technology-led business transformational change, instead of ...
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BT has signed a deal with British American Tobacco (BAT) to manage the company’s wide area network (WAN) across the globe. A high-performance IP network will be deployed by BT to enable BAT to manage and prioritise its traffic ...
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A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders. Yet another app called iPeople allows human ...
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Sustainable packaging developer CardPak has announced the purchase of a 50,000ft2 building in Aurora, Ohio, US. The company will use the facility from 1 March 2013. According to CardPak, the additional manufacturing capacity will help it ...
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The world continues to move faster and decisions are often made at the spur of the moment, but Lightning Labels of Denver, CO, identifies recent research that shows the significant impact of packaging decisions on consumer choices. ...
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A new Nielsen Category Shopping Fundamentals study explores the U.S.consumer's mindset when it comes to purchasing alcoholic beverages.The study's findings,which span beverage categories and cover different demographics,can help drive ...
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US-based PAC Worldwide has created the new Pouchjacket line,in response to the needs of its customers for a protective packaging solution for retail/food products. According to the company,the custom laminated flexible pouches are made ...
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WithoutWire (WoW) increased its total market share by growing faster than the overall WMS market in 2011 as reported by Arc Advisory Group's Warehouse Management Systems Worldwide Outlook. The Art of Inventory, a Minneapolis based company ...
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CHICAGO, IL, June 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Marketing Store Worldwide, one of the world's largest privately held global brand activation agencies, announced today that Michael Edelstein has joined the agency as vice president, ...
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