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Developments in Dispensing Caps – Tap-The-Cap
If you buy one of the ready-to-drink energy or vitamin drinks in the assumption that it will give you the necessary kick, you might be in for a surprise. The kick is not coming and you discover you...
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February – Packaging Innovations
This month we start again our series of new packaging developments. An ingenious packaging format for artisan square sandwiches, Salanova lettuce to grow in your own kitchen, a paperboard handgrenade...
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Developments in Wood-Fibre Based Packaging Material
Wood fibre samples - Image courtesy of Technical Research Centre of Finland In the recent weeks we have seen some very interesting developments in packaging material based on wood fibres. Packaging...
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Developments in Dispensing Caps – An Overview
In general it can be said that dispensing caps or functional caps are used to store dry or liquid supplements separately from the water in which when released by the consumer they form an energy or...
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Developments in Dispensing Caps – An Overview 02
Activate dispensing cap In my previous article we discussed why it is desirable to dispense a predetermined amount of ingredients/additive/supplement into a liquid, mostly water, in a container. In...
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Innovations in Food Take-Out Packaging
Double-Drawer Box Since the days of the fish-and-chips wrapped in old newspapers and the Chinese food scooped into unappealing plastic trays, quite some has change. And the developments are continuing,...
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Developments in Healthcare Packaging
I seldom write about medical and pharmaceutical packaging. The reason is simple. In my some 45 years of experience in the packaging field, I have been mainly engaged in packaging technology for food...
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Developments in Dispensing Caps – An Overview 03
As said in my previous article we continue our overview of dispensing caps today with the ViCap of Vicap Systems, the BioGaia or Lifetop Cap of Bericap, the Cedevita cap made by Teamplast, and the...
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Japan: New Scanner could be the End for Barcodes
On the Digital Trends blog I read that Japanese company, Toshiba, has developed a, so called, food recognition technology. The new technology is a scanner which recognises the item of food,...
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Anuga FoodTec 2012
Today the 27th of March the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne, Germany, opened its doors. Scheduled from March 27 to March 30, the Anuga FoodTec offers international food manufacturing companies an opportunity...
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Anuga FoodTec 2012 – Part 02
To give you an idea of how important the Anuga FoodTec is seen in the world of the food and drink industry, let me tell you that this year Tetra Pak had a stand covering 4,800 m2 (that for my American...
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TetraPak at the Anuga FoodTec 2012
In my previous article I already mentioned the “immense” stand of 4,800 m2 Tetra Pak had at the Anuga FoodTec 2012. To justify this size Tetra Pak had not only to showcase its full range of packaging...
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Unilever’s Online Open Innovation Platform
You might remember that in a previous article about the Talking Packaging for Healthcare products, I referred to an interview in Packaging World, where Richard Adams, head of Pack Graphic Design at...
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Packaging Systems at the Anuga FoodTec 2012
From the packaging systems exhibited at the Anuga FoodTec 2012, running in Cologne, Germany last month, I selected three to highlight here. Gerhard Schubert presented its new tube filling and closing...
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Developments in Pharmaceutical Packaging
In my second article about developments in pharmaceutical packaging (see my previous one about the Talking Packaging) I will show solutions for the PIL (Patient Information Leaflet). A PIL often is a...
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Developments in Fresh Produce Packaging
In three articles I like to highlight the recent developments in packaging of fresh produce. Fresh produce can be seen as one of the most important commodities of the food market. And only growing in...
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Earth Day and the Future of Packaging
Tomorrow, Sunday, the 22nd of April, will be Earth Day and the internet will be overloaded with the most beautiful photos of what is left of this planet. This is all nice and dandy from an historical...
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Developments in Fresh Produce Packaging – Part 02
As said in my previous article Fresh Produce Packaging, today we will see the Squircle clamshell of Hollandia, the Two Piece Display-Ready Asparagus Shipper, the Peel/Reseal Apio Squash Package Ocean...
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Whisky Bottles for Queen and Country
This year the UK is in the spotlights of the world. First of all we have the Olympics and secondly, but not less important, it marks the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. On 6th February...
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Packaging Awards and the Self-Congratulatory Syndrome
In myprivatebrand of March 15, 2012, Perry Seelert , strategic partner of united* dsn, a design consultancy in New York and San Francisco, wrote about what he called: The Self-Congratulatory Syndrome....
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