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An American Success: Unifoil Honors 25-Year Company Vet Joseph Funicelli

(News | New Products)

August 24, 2003, ... Unifoil Corporation into an innovative, award-winning company that produces eye-catching foils, films and holographic materials for prestigious consumer goods manufacturers. "Joe Funicelli is Unifoil ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... flexible and rigid plastic containers, pouches, cartons, blister packs, cans, sachets — all these and many other options are in use today. The fast-moving consumer goods manufacturers know their markets ...

European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... With Innovative Adhesives” was the title of a talk by Hermann Onusseit of Henkel KGAA. He noted that consumers are demanding more and better information about products they buy. A trend therefore exists ...

First Quarter Performance Mixed

(News | New Products)

May 01, 2003, ... L. Wambold, Pactiv's chairman and CEO. Pactiv, a $2.9 billion company, is a leading provider of advanced packaging solutions for the consumer, foodservice/food packaging, and protective/flexible packaging ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... technology, and consumer packaged goods, is designing the critical elements and creating global standards for the next-generation bar code—called the EPC Network. EPC is an evolution of the traditional ...

As Good as It Gets: PPC Awards

(Folding Cartons)

March 31, 2003, ... are able to fit into a case and pallet, thereby reducing shipping and warehousing cost. One judge comments, "From a consumer’s perspective, one of the best handles I’ve ever seen." A second judge adds, ...

Think Lean

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... waste will shorten the time between order placement and product delivery and deliver a healthier bottom line. With “convenience” being the mantra of today's consumer, the flexible packaging industry ...

Economic/Marketing Trends in the Global Converting Industry at CMM

(News | New Products)

March 20, 2003, ... world wide trends and industry drivers that are creating a competitive advantage in today’s converting environment. Also examined are the value chain changes from the perspectives of consumers, end users, ...

Flexo Prepress for Boxes; SunGraphics in Bay Area

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2003, ... boxes, folding cartons, and retail point-of-purchase displays." Adds Dave Garnache, SunGraphics' business manager, "It's been positioned in the Bay Area to provides services to consumer goods companies and ...

Pouches on the Cutting Edge

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... laser score that makes it easier for consumers to open the bag and has a built-in closure said to give products an 8-mo shelf life. What makes CLP's laser scoring process so unique, the company reports, ...

Russian Revolution

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... than ten years on — it can look back on a 6% annual growth in the years 1999-2001 and increasing confidence in its stability. Consumerism increasingly is taking a hold on the Russian population — estimated ...

Satisfaction Guaranteed

(Disposables)

January 31, 2003, ... we were focused primarily on industrial and consumer products, such as towels and tissue products, and tablecovers for party goods customers. Today we are servicing not only party goods customers, but ...

Consolidation in the Self-Adhesive Laminating Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... esthetics and label quality are seen by the label buyers, particularly for consumer goods and food and beverages, as essential a part of brand identity and brand image protection as the product and the ...

Neither Boom Nor Bust

(Magazine)

December 31, 2002, The rocky road to economic recovery is pockmarked with ruts, bumps, and potholes; e.g., the stock market, consumer confidence, and employment to mention The rocky road to economic recovery is pockmarked ...

What's Ahead for Bagmakers

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... consumer packs out of the same basic volume of goods to package. Flexible packaging producers — a few years ago mainly medium-sized and often family-owned companies — are consolidating quickly into ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report

(Archive)

October 31, 2002, ... the medium term, supported by consumer goods' manufacturers demands for more—and more innovative—primary product labels; high growth rates in the building and insulation market and others; and an established ...

Innovations in E-Commerce: Converter Benefits

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ... bet $70 million in ad promotion to launch iWon.com, a consumer search, content, and services portal where every click adds points and entries to sweepstakes. As a result, iWon.com, a latecomer to the search ...

1960s

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ...  Wedge-shaped PE bags with interlacing slits on one face are adopted to package grapes. July 1964 Plastic containers are rated as superior for packaging cottage cheese, determines a consumer survey. ...

New Products and Structures Propel Growth of Nonwovens

(Disposables)

July 31, 2002, ... for nonwoven roll goods will increase 4.5% per year to $4.6 billion in 2005, propelled by the disposable consumer and filtration markets. In its “Nonwovens” research study, the company reports the c segment ...

Foiling Counterfeiters

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, ... for product integrity among manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, liquors, and upscale consumer goods. That's why optically variable devices (OVDs) ultimately will become more common than credit cards in ...