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Packaging Innovations – Lunching and Snacking in November
Market research organization NPD Group claims that US consumers are less likely to skip meals than they were five years ago, but they are more likely to describe breakfast, lunch and dinner as...
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Developments in Multi-Gallon Containers
The Oct/Nov issue of the Bottled Water Reporter, the official magazine of the International Bottled Water Association, published one of my articles under the title: “Creating The Perfect Package: The...
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Self-Heating Packaging Containers – Part 1
Consumer who want it the way they want it and want it now, are no longer just sitting in London, New York or Los Angeles. They’re also in São Paolo, Moscow, Taipei and Shanghai. As lives around the...
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Self-Heating Packaging Containers – Part 2
Did I speak, in my previous article, about self-heating technology in general and the beverage cans of Fast Drinks and Hot-Can in particular, in this issue we talk about HeatGenie, whose approach to...
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The Self-Cooling Technology and the Future – Part 3
Field of opportunities or graveyard of dreams? Examples of some of the many commercially unsuccessful self-cooling packaging – Source: Packaging Materials & Technologies Ltd As said in my previous...
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24 Remarkable Packaging Innovations of 2012
A year of packaging innovations is behind us. In 2012 I posted 51 articles with 611 pictures about packaging innovation, which brought the archive of this blog to a total of 314 posts. Apparently the...
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24 Remarkable Packaging Innovations of 2012 – Part 02
In my previous article we saw the first 4 out of 24 remarkable packaging innovations of 2012. We continue our world tour and this time it will be a long sit, as I want to show 8 remarkables. Click to...
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Dual-Product Offerings Are Becoming More Than A Trend
In 2012 we have seen several dual-chamber bottle designs and other attempts to please the consumer on-the-go with two related products which have to be kept separately till the moment of consumption....
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Self-Heating Packaging for Baby Formula
At this moment there are three hot topics in the packaging world. The first one is the dispensing cap, which we find mainly on top of a water bottle for inserting a certain dose of vitamins. It is a...
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Single-Serve Cap™ – A New Packaging Format
Our world is moving towards a quick and convenient way of living. But for this quick and convenient way of living the consumer is setting quite a range of requirements as condition for the products he...
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Additives and the Farce of Bio-Degradability
I have argued over and over again that recycling is money. Furthermore it is well-known that I strongly object to any microbial additives used in plastic packaging to claim bio-degradability....
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Recent Developments in Beverage Cans
In general there is little movement in the world of beverage cans, in terms of new designs or technological developments. Of course there are the most fantastic graphics, but the market seems to be...
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Hitch-hiking with Coca-Cola
Medicine remains difficult to obtain in remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, 15% of the mortality in this area for children under 5 years old is attributed to dehydration from...
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Highlights of the 25th DuPont Packaging Awards
Click to view slideshow. The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation is the industry’s longest-running, global, independently judged celebration of innovation and collaboration throughout the value...
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A World Tour in Take-Out Packaging
A national survey carried out in the UK by Alpro shows that time-pressed workers now often have no choice but to eat many of their meals at their desk. Indeed, in the workplace, eating alone has...
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Sharing A Beverage Can
Last month I wrote in my article: “Recent Developments in Beverage Cans”, that in general there is little movement in the world of beverage cans, in terms of new designs or technological developments....
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Innovations in Seafood Packaging
According to a report from market research firm The Freedonia Group, the fastest growth from 2012-2017 will be recorded by the ready-to-eat market as time-pressed consumers seek an expanded variety of...
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Innovations in Seafood Packaging (2)
I continue my story (see part 01 here) about MAP and vacuum packaging for seafood, I have still two examples, one for sliced smoked salmon and one for an ovenable film. Although it has nothing to do...
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Bottles for Household Cleaners
American consumers buy 320 million cleaning products in trigger bottles each year, and millions end up in landfills. In fact, if just 20% of those 320 million bottles were refilled rather than...
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Heineken’s Ideas Brewery
Why spend money with research, marketing and design agencies, when you can obtain the consumer trends and the related brainwaves and innovative ideas for free. It’s called creative crowdsourcing, and...
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