Dietary supplements are dominating the shelves of pharmacy retailers, with brands vying for the attention of health-conscious consumers. In fact, industry experts report that approximately 50% of American adults take dietary supplements. ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
Tags: agriculture, GMO, farmer
The adult soft drinks sector is a burgeoning market. As Packaging News reported earlier this year, volume sales of adult drinks increased by 14.8% in the 12 months to September 2012. It comes as no surprise then that an increasing number of ...
Tags: adult soft drinks, Packaging, Printing
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
Sugar and sweetener consumption are changing across many markets globally, driven by governmental taxations, health concerns and a shift in consumer sentiment, according to global market research organisation Canadean Ingredients. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
After evaluating several solutions, Adorn Fashions, one of the fastest growing brands of casual sportswear for the petite, missy and plus-size markets, has chosen Gerber Technology's YuniquePLM software as a direct result of the Yunique ...
Tags: Adorn Fashions, casual sportswear, YuniquePLM software, post-sale
Kellwood Company, a leading apparel manufacturer and marketer owned by affiliates of Sun Capital Partners Inc., announced the appointment of Lynn Shanahan to Chief Executive Officer of Kellwood Company following the Initial Public Offering ...
Tags: Kellwood, appointment, Lynn Shanahan, apparel manufacturer
StockPot is recalling 1,864 cases of chicken noodle soup as it is formulated with wheat, which is not mentioned on the label. The product features a Loaded Baked Potato Style Soup side label, which does not declare the presence of wheat ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Rehrig Pacific Company, a leading manufacturer of reusable transport packaging systems for grocery, retail, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, agriculture, and recycling and waste industries has released a study in partnership with Clemson ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Packaging Machinery
Baxter International has filed an amended biologics license application (BLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to re-start the review process for approval of HyQvia facilitated subcutaneous infusion to treat adult patients with ...
Fiber-based materials provider Ahlstrom has announced the demerger of its label and processing business in Brazil in order to integrate it with Munksj. As part of the move, 12,291,991 new shares in Munksj? Oyj were offered under the ...
Tags: Ahlstrom, Label and Processing, Brazilian
Domino's intuitive TouchPanel, mounted close to the packaging line For many years multiple Coca Cola sites have relied on Domino's innovative laser coders for primary marking. The printers are used for marking PET bottles as well as the ...
Tags: Coca Cola, Transfer Printers, Thermal Transfer Printers
The "Vit" flavoured water range includes 4 variants which display a distinct metallised label design. The "brushed metal" finish has been achieved by sharing technical knowledge from both the South African design agency and the Deeside ...
The LCA model enables the companies to track their products from raw material through to consumer use and disposal, and detects areas of major environmental impacts and then help reduce those impacts. "To achieve the ultimate goal of ...
Tags: Lifecycle Assessment, Unilever, UPM
The whisky was distilled 50 years ago and then bottled in 1987 at 23 Years old. ButterflyCannon redesigned the bottles to be reminiscent of the time period using the original shape from 1963, with an additional engraved silver label and ...