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Upside-Down Beverage Containers – 02
In my last article about Upside-Down Beverage Containers I wrote about the slow-moving development of the Flip-Bottle, invented by Vincent M. Allora, founder of Silent Dynamite LLC. I think the...
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What’s New In Fresh Produce Packaging – 01
In my article about the recent FruitLogistica 2015 in Berlin I gave a round-tour of how fresh produce is packaged in these days. It’s obvious that the 2015 consumer anxious to follow a fresh, healthy...
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The Best In Flexible Packaging
As every year the Flexible Packaging Association honoured a wide range of flexible packages with an award. We will have a look at a selection of them in a minute, but first I like to discuss the...
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In-Packaging Indoor Gardening
Yes, I know, it’s quite a title for an article. I will explain what I mean. Recent market surveys show that the young generation consumers don’t want to buy and consume “manufactured” food. They...
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Curious Designs In Beverage Cans
The year 2015 is a special year in packaging. This year Coca-Cola’s iconic bottle celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Beer Can celebrates 80 years of its existence and the very first Bag-in-Box saw...
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What’s New In Fresh Produce Packaging – 02
Ukraine fruit and vegetables market I ended my first article about fresh produce packaging with the promise to write in this one about lidding and liquid absorbents. But before we come to these...
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The Best In Flexible Packaging – 02
A large surface light emitting plastic film developed by vtt is based on oled technology – photo Juha Sarkkinen In my first article about the “The Best In Flexible Packaging” I criticised an article...
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Developments in Packaging Material
Intensive finishing effects can be achieved with Sappi’s Atelier FBB In one of my previous articles about the flexible packaging awards I published a photo of Research Institute VTT in Finland...
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Novelties In Milk Packaging
Courtesy: Dukat Croatia Milk is one of the most consumed beverages in the US and Europe with a growing popularity in emerging economies. It has been proclaimed as being healthy from the moment it first...
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Luxury Drinks Packaging
Luxury drinks packaging of course isn’t an interesting item in terms of packaging technology. More often than not it’s a limited edition of some sort of exclusive spirit, whisky or vodka, where the...
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The Afterlife Of An Egg Packaging
It is estimated that in the UK over 12 billion eggs a year are consumed, of which, according to Nielsen (June 2013), 47% are purchased from retail stores, 22% are used in food manufacturing, 29% in...
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Developments In Packaging Material – 02
Yesterday was Earth Day, so let’s have a look at sustainability first, before we take a look at the latest developments in packaging material. Consumer goods companies, which push so-called ‘green’...
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Developments in Flexible Packaging – Part 01
As is tradition each year the Flexible Packaging Association presents its Annual FPA Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards and Innovation Showcase, which is supposed to feature flexible packaging...
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Developments in Flexible Packaging – Part 02
photo courtesy Bemis Flexible Packaging In my previous article I promised that in this part we should take a look at the FPA Awards. But before we go there, I like to highlight one more flexible...
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Pre-Packaged Fresh Fruit And The Twitter Big Mouths
In some way this will be an article a little bit out of the ordinary, as I generally only relate about novelties in packaging technology and give sometimes my comments about the designs. However in...
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Fresh Produce Packaging
Fresh produce aisle in Russian supermarket For a long time now paper and paperboard have been the preferred packaging materials for fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m not talking about the portion...
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Emerging Non-Traditional Packaging Materials
First Prototype of the PHBottle Made from Organic Bioplastic Material Over the last years I have written a whole series of articles about developments that led to alternative packaging materials, in...
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Autonomization: Delegating New Functions To Packaging – Part 01
It isn’t often that the consumer is afforded the necessary tools to serving a particular food in its very wrapper. When the implements are provided, they’re often quite poor in quality. The most...
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Autonomization: Delegating New Functions To Packaging – Part 02 – Examples
In the first instalment of this series I gave an account about autonomization, in other words delegating extra functions to packaging. I argued that the contemporary consumer expects that packaging...
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Autonomization In Packaging – Fresh Produce Cutter
I ended the second instalment of this series with the remark that the packaging field of fresh produce is lacking any autonomization development or design. Actually that’s not surprising as fresh...
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