Excellence in Packaging
This blog relates worldwide innovations in packaging with "green" influences, sustainability and recyclability. Green Technology, trends, materials and more!
Short, Shorter, the Shortest
The item I want to handle today, doesn’t belong to the glamorous part of packaging. However its existence and eventual evolution have tremendous impact on the beverage industry and as a consequence on the sustainability credentials of the beverage packaging: the bottle. The market environment in the mineral water and soft drinks industry, as well as in the beer sector changes rapidly. Best ...... Read More
Comments (0)CupCan and CreaTin - Creative Design in Steel Cans
Finally we are back in town and that it took so long is not only due to me recovering from a surgery, but also a switch in IT-platform Packaging Digest decided to execute. As usual an IT-switch doesn’t go smoothly and therefore various of my previous posts show some strange lay-outs, no pictures or other disturbances. I am confident that PD’s IT-people will solve these problems in du ...... Read More
Comments (5)True Innovation from Process to Packaging
“Preshafruit’s unique triangular bottle really sets it apart from other offerings in the juice aisle,” said Beverage Innovation magazine Managing Editor Claire Phoenix. “The bottle immediately gives the product a super-premium feel and the whole presentation, including the sophisticated labelling and unique closure, gives consumers plenty of clues as to just how good th ...... Read More
Comments (1)4-Fresh or Quattro – Original or Copycat
KR Castlemaine, an Australian meat processor, launched an innovative new four-pack design for fine meat products. Comprising a range of shaved hams, chicken, turkey and salami products, the new format offers the consumer convenience and freshness with either 4 x 30g portions or 4 x 50g portions. The four-pack, neatly held together by a printed outer cardboard sleeve, is a revolutionary design for ...... Read More
Comments (0)Unique closure Creates a Serving-Tray
This upside-down package, called 1-Seal Kupa, is specifically designed to allow for the lid of the package to be used in upside-down position as a serving tray for the Arboga/Atria skivbarpastej (sliceable pâté). The design of the lid/tray of the packaging allows the vacuum seal to be broken while opening the container without damaging the meat product inside. This was accomplished by va ...... Read More
Comments (5)Pick and Place Technology for Fragile Fresh Fruit
This blog only has seen posts about new packaging innovations in regard to packaging design, packaging construction, material use and packaging and printing technologies. However I don’t see a reason why I should restrict myself to those topics and not write about new packaging machinery innovations, particularly when one meets an interesting design for automatic handling of fragile fresh f ...... Read More
Comments (1)A Perfect Complement with the Compliments of the Publisher
How can you get special attention in the book trade for one of your strong titles with which the (female) reader dives into great emotional worlds. This question stood at the top of the deliberations about how to market the new title of Nicole C. Vosseler, “Unter dem Safranmond” (Under the Saffron Moon) and published by the Lauterbacher publishing house Lübbe. And when a critic ...... Read More
Comments (0)Tri-Ply’s Ingenious Tripod-Shaped Box
Tri Ply displays one of the worlds most popular and functional cookware concepts. Tri Ply is basically two or three different metals that are laminated or bonded together to obtain the advantages of the two metals in one piece of cookware. Windermere, Cumbria, UK based branding and design consultancy Nicepond, nominated for the Sustainable Pack of the Year Award, marks a significant breakthrough ...... Read More
Comments (0)Multi-pack Combines Two Seemingly Inconsistent Bottles
Originating from Pilsen in the Czech Republic, Pilsner is the most copied and most popular beer style in the world. Like most brewers in the world, Heineken classes its lager as a pilsner. Being a pale lager of 5% alcohol by volume, the beer is the flagship product of Heineken International and the green bottles are also well-known in the USA. The beer is made from malted barley, yeast and hops, ...... Read More
Comments (3)From Doy-Pack to S-Pouch
Looking at the many introductions of ‘new’ products in stand-up pouches this packaging format has gained a lot of popularity in the USA, in part because of the requirement to minimize solid waste, in part because of cost, and in part for the possibilities to increase shelf appeal as they allow for excellent billboarding within the retail aisle. An early stand-up pouch design (US Pate ...... Read More
Comments (11)A New Look at Latin American Culture
Perfumária Natura, Brazil’s leading cosmetics industry, launched a line called Amor América, with products made with raw materials originating from the Andes and Patagonia regions. To spicing up the launch, Natura bought for USD 1 million, the rights of the poem “Amor América”, written by the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published in the book Canto General, ...... Read More
Comments (1)Braille On Pharma Packaging
In 2010, European packages containing pharmaceuticals must have Braille embossing to identify the contents. This mandate is spurring other countries and pharmaceutical companies to adopt technologies which add Braille to their consumer packages. The number of people that can be categorized as blind or partially sighted increases each year, mainly as a result of the higher life expectancy and aging ...... Read More
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