Excellence in Packaging
This blog relates worldwide innovations in packaging with "green" influences, sustainability and recyclability. Green Technology, trends, materials and more!
2010: Trends in Packaging
Some readers have asked me to write as a follow-up to my article: “The 12 Most Impressive Packaging Innovations in 2009“, an article about the trends in packaging innovation to be expected in 2010.I am not a crystal-glazer and who am I to pretend to be able to envision the future trends in packaging. In general I find articles about trends often only mirroring the wishful-thinking of ...... Read More
Comments (1)The 12 Most Impressive Packaging Innovations in 2009
This is my last post of 2009 and I thought it interesting to give my readers an overview of the, in my opinion, most impressive innovations in packaging of this year. Enjoy it and have a delightful turn of the Year. The Aluminium Bottle of the Year A revolutionary lightweight aluminium bottle made for Eaux Vives mineral water in Canada won the Can of the Year Award for Exal Corporation at The Can ...... Read More
Comments (2)The 2009 Packaging ‘Goofies' From Around The World
Are the packages I describe here, the result of some idiotic, stupid and incompetent designers? No, not at all, on the contrary. I just used the word ‘goofy’ to catch your attention, although ….. some are the result of a far-too-free-flowing brainwave and some are simple and brilliant, just that little bit extra to pop-off the supermarket shelves. Unfortunately they didnȁ ...... Read More
Comments (0)Bio-based Plastics From Algae - An Old is New Again Story
On my blog Best In Packaging I wrote two posts titled: “The Potential of Bio-based Plastics” (part 1 and part 2) in which I reviewed a study regarding the potential of bio-based plastics. The study meanly concentrated on feed stock which need more or less large quantities of arable areas which could and should, in my opinion exclusively, be used for food and not for bio-fuels or bio- ...... Read More
Comments (2)A Touch of Class Enters the Boxed Wine Category
In the beverage alcohol market it is wine which is the primary growth driver, while at the same time the wine industry’s low margins and commodity market dynamics have made it the toughest sector of drinks for packaging innovation. Although the majority of wines is still bottled in glass, the larger format sector for wine, targeting the mainstream wine consumer, is dominated by the Bag-in-B ...... Read More
Comments (0)Brazil’s small-scale business model for recycling post-consumer Tetra Paks
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is typically a period when people look back and forward and decide what they will do differently in the year to come. Well, let me give you something to contemplate, read this article, invite some friends for a nice diner or b-b-q and discuss with them this topic. Organize the community and get it started. In a never ending process many a ȁ ...... Read More
Comments (7)Is ‘Anyway' the answer?
One of the consumer’s great frustrations after buying a product with a pump spray or an aerosol, is, that in effect they are designed only to work in an upright position. Existing pump spray containers have a dip tube with only one hole, which have to ‘swim’ in the liquid to guarantee proper spraying and that only is the case when sufficient liquid is left in the container an ...... Read More
Comments (5)IML and High-Speed Thin-Wall Technology
Where “injection moulding” is concerned, it is the international trade fair for plastics processing Fakuma in Friedrichshafen/Germany where the experts meet. For years now, it’s ranked as one of the leading plastics trade forums, this year held in October. And that was the place where Beck Automation AG introduced its new IML high-speed thin-wall technology. For the first tim ...... Read More
Comments (0)Chocolate Fondue in 2 minutes
Finally the holiday season is coming up. Although Christmas time is a period to contemplate, appreciate and relax, after a very stressful and for some depressing year, it is at the same time a period with countless home celebrations and festive get-togethers. It’s always a good idea to include a designated driver as part of the party planning. What’s better then enjoy chocolate to ca ...... Read More
Comments (0)Cubis - ‘cubed' Innovative Beverage Bottles
Notwithstanding the growing importance of cylindrical shaped aluminium cans, stand-up pouches with all types of fitments and rectangular Tetra Pak-like paperboard boxes, the most common packaging for beverages in the present world is the glass or plastic (mostly PET) bottle of various sizes and shapes, but always cylindrical and narrowing at the top to form an orifice from which the beverage can b ...... Read More
Comments (4)Cultivated in Transit
Let’s have a look at one more futuristic vision in packaging. The vision departs from the supposition that convenience, and product difference - aspects that were the typical characteristics of food products in the last decade - are taking a backseat in a world now more focusing on making a positive impact on freshness, taste and health, as well as the sustainability of the planet. Our obse ...... Read More
Comments (1)Creative Packaging Ideas
After my last post, which highlighted a non-glamorous item, it is time to enliven this blog a bit. Worldwide industrial designers come up with new packaging ideas, a large part of these ideas is just self-employment, in other words there is no client involved. They are just the fruits of a creative spirit, no commercial or technical requirements and restrictions limiting the brainwave. Of course a ...... Read More
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