Packaging Digest - March 1, 2009

High technology and sustainability won big this year in the 2009 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition, sponsored by the Flexible Packaging Association , ( www.flexpack.org ). From vacuum skin-packs that protect fresh-cut asparagus and improve the way they're sold to pouches that use new ways to employ less material and bags with clever new opening features, flexible structures cont...

• Departments
• Comment
• Packagers need more than a compass in this market
• Design Trends
• Puppet compact from Italy
• Sleek bottle gives replenishment drink a wakeup call
• Kellogg saves space with slim cereal box
• PVC sleeves dress dressing bottles
• Tuna steak in high-barrier containers is catching on in Spain
• Single-dose packets are a marvel for Miracle-Gro
• Plastic wine bags cut waste
• Tea bags wrap it up in compostable metallized film
• AriZona Beverage moves to PET hot-fillable bottle
• New Products
• Moisture-resistant tray
• Bonding adhesive
• Anti-counterfeit, tamper evident films
• Robotic palletizer
• Compostable bakeware
• Rigid film line
• AS/RS system
• Paperboard packaging
• Biopolymer containers
• Shrink wrapper
• Produce packing sealer
• Package inspection
• Bake-in-bag paper bag
• Case packer
• Partition inserter
• Carton sealer
• Wireless I/O series
• Liquid filler
• Printer
• PET films
• Newsmakers
• Newsmakers
• Sustainability
• Communicating the recycling message is harder than it seems
• System Integration
• Analyzing the automation study, part 2

• Features
• Checkweighing
• Checkweigher balances scale for cheese packs
• Cleaning Wipes Dispenser
• New decorative canister for disinfecting wipes
• Flexible Packaging
• Packaging towlettes and travel packets
• Labeling
• Shrink-sleeve labels shine
• Pallet Load Containment
• New techniques help tomato grower pack and ship more effectively
• Toothpaste Tube
• Finally: Toothpaste in a clear tube
• Wrapping Machine
• Wrapping systems: How a pen manufacturer upgraded after disaster