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Creativity In Cheese Packaging
In my previous article we have seen the technological developments in cheese packaging, which don’t enlighten the dull panorama in the supermarket aisles, but without doubt improve the quality and...
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What’s New in Beer Bottles?
I had the intention to write an article about gender packaging. Everywhere (except in Japan, but about that later) you see gender neutral packaging hitting the marketplace. Everybody seems to be so...
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Creativity in Beer Bottles
A two-year development resulted in fast changes on labels in sunlight, which can offer now repeatability to turn “on and off” and providing a broad colour spectrum along with durability in the sun....
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Packaging One-Person Ready-Meals
Photo courtesy Japanese restaurant Moomin Café, Tokyo The modern lifestyle of most consumers has radically changed their way of eating a meal. The roughly 20 meals per week, as was the norm in the...
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Creativity in Folding Cartons
From cereals to confectionary to ready meals to pharmaceuticals folding cartons are a key product in the global packaging market. According to Smithers Pira this market had a value of USD 140 billion...
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Developments In Disposable Spice Grinders
Shaft Technical Mouldings’ jar is moulded with integral grinding teeth on the inside of the preform neck The consumer has long since discovered that the four fundamental functions of packaging...
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Forming and Filling Beverage Bottles
One of the most important requirements for plastic beverage bottles is the option that the bottle can be filled aseptically. The most common procedure to reach that condition is to rinse the bottles,...
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Zero-Waste with Plantable Packaging
Some years ago, somewhere in the background of the packaging battle-field, the zero-waste packaging movement was seeing the light of the day. On the face of it, eliminating packaging can only be a...
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What’s New In Blisters and Clamshells
Already for years you can’t sit quietly around a table during a birthday party with friends, discussing the oh-so simple solutions for the world problems and then telling them you’re a packaging...
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Cat-And-Mouse Game With Counterfeiters
Terry Shyu, MSE PhD Student, demonstrates use of nanopillars that reveal hidden images via condensation of fluid on the structures – Photo: Joseph Xu Counterfeiting is one of the fastest growing and...
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A Series of Packaging Novelties
My recent articles all had a theme and gave a general (market) view about this item as well as described a variety of related innovations. That left out a lot of individual packaging novelties,...
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Air + Greenhouse Gas → Plastic
We all have to look at the results of the Climate Change Conference in Lima/Peru, to know that the problems with greenhouse gas emissions never will be tackled by politicians. They don’t seem to be...
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Best In Packaging in 2014
At the start of a new year you always have the inclination to look at what you have achieved, before you turn around and make plans for the year in front of you. The year 2014 was very busy for me...
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Packaging For Vending Machines
A cluster of vending machines in Japan Vending machines are about to undergo a revolution with new (healthy and fresh) hot and cold food offerings creating a completely new sales channel for food...
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The Latest In Active Food Labels
In 2014 a lot have been written about labels and what information and how detailed they should give the consumer. In printing there have been various developments. But for me far more interesting are...
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Sophisticating Packaging for Vending Machines and Beyond
Turkish Airlines With this article I intend to detail some designs as alternatives for vending machines, as I promised in my previous article. But there is a second outlet for which these designs are a...
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2015 – A Revolutionary Year In Packaging
It will be clear to my readers that development and trends in packaging, its technology and the grade of its sophistication are entirely dependent of the trends in the requirements and expectations of...
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A Series of Packaging Novelties – 02
Here is the second series of packaging novelties as continuation of my previous article about this subject. Some more novelties, which didn’t get attention in a theme attributed article. With this...
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What’s New In Child-Resistant Packaging
Most poisoning accidents involve medicines, household products and cosmetics. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), child-resistant packaging is one of the best-documented successes in...
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Packaging Innovation From Australia
Aldi, Australia Australia is one of these countries from which only every now and then a creative packaging design reaches the outside world. If you want to believe the professional packaging media...
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