Packaging Digest - November 1, 2003

Unalaska's Westward Seafoods makes a big catch with a 260-gallon corrugated intermediate bulk container for fish oil that reduces strapping costs by at least 40 percent, spillage loss by 25 percent and handling time by more than 25 percent.

• Sturdy bakery boxes are a sweet solution
• When and how to choose a Contract packager
• Labels look polished with high-definition flexo
• Of packaging lines and racing cars
• Capping a relationship, just in time
• Packaging on the cutting edge
• Blister-pack offers child safety
• WestPack 2004
• Machines with OMAC Plug-and-Pack™ attributes arrive in force at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
• Machinery sales in 2002 barely edged ahead of 2001's results
• High-tech security