Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/19/2013 12:03:55 PM Even as the economy improves, 94 percent of Americans indicate they will remain cautious and keep their spending for food, beverage and household ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging Industry
Perimeter Brand Packaging has announced the completion of qualitative and quantitative research with 10,000 consumers over the past 12 months, including one hundred hours of one-on-one insight sessions with consumers. Perimeter, an Open ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging Industry
Redundancy notices have been issued to the entire workforce at the Crown plant in Worcester. The firm confirmed the decision this week following a 90-day consultation process which began in January. The Worcester site, which is one of ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging industry
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging Industry
UBM Canon's Packaging Group, which includes Packaging Digest, celebrating 50 years as The Voice of the Packaging Community, and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, celebrating 20 years of healthcare product packaging coverage, ...
Visitors can build their own programme from over 30 sessions across all three days of the event, while still allowing time to explore the technologies and services being demonstrated on the show floor. The show runs from 14-15 May at teh ...
Tags: North Print, Packaging
The organisation said that the digital revolution presents the industry with its biggest challenge for over 40 years and it will have to get to grips with interactive technology and multi-media packaging to maintain its position. CPI ...
Tags: Packaging, Digital Revolution
A strengthening economy and less volatile input pricing could result in a positive year for the foodservice packaging industries in North America and Europe, based on an annual survey conducted by the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI). ...
Tags: Foodservice Packaging, Packaging, Printing
The paper company and the producer of speciality high performance Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) and Cellulose films have combined, claiming that they can offer the packaging industry an "alternative, combining traditional ...
The financial services firm has unveiled its new report entitled 2013 Global forest, paper, and packaging trend watch: A changing landscape: South America’s influence on global markets. The report states that significant capacity ...
Tags: paper, packaging, packaging industry
Innovia Films and Sappi Fine Paper Europe have collaborated to create new compostable packs in response to a new EU Packaging Directive set to come into effect in 2014. According to Innovia, the directive will place the responsibility for ...
Tags: Innovia Films, Sappi, Packaging
Global supplier of technology and services Metso is all set to supply grade conversion rebuild of Blue Paper's paper machine at its mill site in Strasbourg, France. The start up of the re-built machine is set to commence in the last ...
Tags: packaging, headbox, packaging industry
Solvent-based technologies provider Flint Group has joined non-profit organization Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) in a bid to promote sustainability in the graphics communication industry. According to SGP, Flint Group views ...
Boca Bearing, a US-based manufacturer of ceramic bearing and lubrication technology, has introduced a new line of bearings that can be utilized in various stages of packaging process. The new ceramic and ceramic hybrid bearings can be ...
Tags: Packaging Industry, Packaging, Printing, lubrication technology
Branding and design firm Hornall Anderson has updated the identity and packaging for Doritos, a brand from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division. Hornall Anderson UK creative director Ali Whitely said the agency considered everything from ...
Tags: packaging, Branding, packaging industry