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Sealed Air, Ecovative to commercialize sustainable packaging
The companies are joining forces to bring to market EcoCradle Mushroom packaging, a fungus-based sustainable packaging material. More
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Increasing takeout orders boosts packaging consumption
A recent survey indicates consumers increasingly are ordering restaurant food to go—which means increased opportunities for packaging manufacturers.
Packaging targets beer-drinking women
Chick Beer—a beverage crafted by a woman, for women—puts a traditionally male-associated product in packaging with a distinctively feminine touch.
Packaging Digest expands sales staff
The publication is welcoming two seasoned representatives to its sales staff, in order to better serve clients for the various media offerings.
PACKAGING BRIEFS Thursday, Jan. 26
People, services, awards and news about the packaging industry.Latest packaging technologies help improve combat rations
Researchers at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center—and their industry and academic partners—are pushing the envelope in food processing and packaging to broaden the array of foods they can deliver to troops.
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Adventures in Packaging
January 27, 2012
The case of the bobbling bottle
The milkman called–and not about deliveries, either. He had a problem and...
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Green Terratory
January 20, 2012
Resolutions for a packaging addict
As both packaging professionals and consumers, we live lives dominated by...
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Digestibles
December 8, 2011
3D packaging: no funny glasses required (unless you want)
Judged the Flexible Packaging Assn awards earlier this week. Fun, fun, fun. This...
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Pack Rat
September 15, 2011
The faster I go, the behinder I get
Packaging lines bring out the speed drivers in all of us. Eons ago, back when I...
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Improving the diets of our kids might actually help prevent premature...
Eric Starson– 1/27/2012 7:43:07 PM EST
in response to USDA seeks comments on revisions to food container standardsWhat are some corn polymers that are certified food-grade, and are there any...
Donna Hougland– 1/27/2012 4:04:37 PM EST
in response to Food grade polymersBut its whiskey! who gives a tinkers damn about glass unless it's Maccallam 18...
Laxsante Suave– 1/26/2012 8:37:25 PM EST
in response to Canned whisky adds recloseable lidBrilliant!! Thank you to manufacturers who print consumer info numbers on...
Janine Fisher– 1/25/2012 5:57:18 PM EST
in response to Nestlé gears packaging design toward pleasurable products
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Resealable closures; packaging structures; and finding the right zipper for your package
Packaging Digest speaks with Robert E. Hogan, director of global marketing at Zip-Pak, about demand for resealable closures, how to justify the costs of package zippers, Zip-Pak's new consulting team and its new services, and how a CPG can take advantage of these new services.
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Wine closure
Select 100 is a high-performance co-extruded cork closure, engineered with two-phased oxygen management control. The product is designed for use for fragile wines and is suitable for wines requiring extended aging, like full-bodied reds.
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