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FTA Helps Brands With Consistency

(News Clips Archive)

September 30, 2008, ... faces more than 3,000 packaging changes each year. Those changes are orchestrated by an eight-member Brand Design Prepress Organization led by Gail Wong, brand design prepress manager for US retail packaging. ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, ... speeds to 100 bags/min. Reportedly, the finished “zipper” box pouches are more compact and shelf-stable than traditional stand-up pouches, reducing film consumption by 10%-15% and maximizing retail store ...

PABS08 Conference Combats Intellectual Property Theft

(News | New Products)

September 11, 2008, ... product diversion and anti-piracy efforts in different industries and sectors, particularly healthcare, consumer products, food and beverage, and retail. For more informati on, visit www.awa-bv.com ...

Winterborne, CardPak Pool Green Resources

(News Eclips)

September 08, 2008, ... force in sustainable replacements for traditional plastic clamshell and blister type packaging. Both companies have a strong presence in the warehouse club channel as well other major retail outlets.  ...

ITC Rules in Favor of Petition Against Woven Sacks Imports from China

(News | New Products)

September 03, 2008, ... pet foods, bird seeds, and similar products sold at retail. The ITC’s affirmative vote will restore fair competition in the US market, its supporters say. The vote was the final determination in investigations ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag Part 2

(Editorial)

August 31, 2008, ... going to have major health problems if exposed. The problem with disposal of bags lies with the general public. The industry nor the retailers are not responsible for bags all over the countryside, the ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... sales, retailers were drawn to the new bag that had a reverse-printed film laminated over a super strong mesh, rather than standard paper laminates. Those bags traditionally have been made overseas and ...

Earth-Friendly Print

(Print)

August 31, 2008, ... of involvement. Track increased legislative and regulatory requirements — local, state, and national. Address new retail and business-to-business relationships. The Wal-Mart “scorecard” for suppliers ...

US Plastic Film Demand to Exceed 16 Billion Pounds

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, ... in such areas as produce and snack packaging, stretch and shrink wrap, and trash bags. In contrast, high-density PE (HDPE) film demand will grow at a below average pace as a result of slow retail bag advances. ...

TAPPI Offers Info on the Bay

(News Clips Archive)

July 31, 2008, ...  Retail Link Users Group. A.J. “Tony” Burns, associate director at Procter & Gamble, will present sustainability from P&G's vantage point at a luncheon Wednesday, September 17. Burns is P&G's designate ...

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part tw

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... preprint liner or other packaging where high-temperature processing could cause conventional overprint varnishes to pick, soften, or smear. Typical applications include retail packaging, POP displays, ...

Start with Security

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2008, ... or faulty counterfeited goods such as drugs and electrical products. Add to that the losses through tampering, diversion, the gray market, and retail theft, and it means brand owners have a major global ...

Printing Partnerships

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, Product manufacturers today are facing a real battle to ensure that what they deliver to the consumer via the retailer is their genuine branded product Product manufacturers today are facing a real battle ...

Paper's Pledg

(Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... For example, some packaging incorporates holograms that will be destroyed if they are removed, thereby alerting the retailer and the consumer to potential counterfeiting. Others are packaged in paperboard ...

Trends Impacting Converters

(Editorial)

June 30, 2008, ... of meeting demands by consumers and retailers alike for more environmentally friendly packaging has become more of a burden to manufacturers or whether, indeed, it might actually prove a boon to business. ...

Extruder a Tall Addition

(Substrates)

May 31, 2008, ... and retail packaging. Jim Kauffman, executive VP of manufacturing operations, says, “This new extruder gives us unique capabilities to produce high quality films for both traditional and special applications.” ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

May 31, 2008, ... vintage champagnes in retail stores convey all properties of the brand — luxury, quality, and innovation.” Shorewood Opens Plant In China NEW YORK, NY Shorewood Packaging, a business of International ...

Can-Do Cartons

(Carton Box)

May 31, 2008, ... and in the end-use environments of retailers and consumers. The entry with the highest number of total points earns the President's Award, which this year went to All Packaging Co., Aurora, CO, for the ...

A Look at the North American Label Market Today

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... label market in the world, as well as the historical “home” of the industry, but it is undergoing change across the value chain — as is the rest of the world — as retail competition intensifies, globalization ...

Interpack 2008 Exceeds Expectations

(News Eclips)

May 20, 2008, ... interest were presentations on “Bioplastics in Packaging” and “InnovationParc Packaging,” sponsored by Pro Carton Intl. (the European Assn. of Cartonboard and Carton Mfrs.), EHI Retail Inst., the Pan-European ...