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Chinese New Year Gift Packaging
The New Year’s festivities in the West are behind us, and the Chinese are looking forward to their New Year’s festivities, which is the most important traditional festival in the Chinese calendar....
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Packaging Innovation From Australia – 02
As promised in my previous article about the Australian Cormack Innovation Awards 2014 I selected three more creative designs. Are they perfect? No, they are not, and certainly subject to improvement....
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Child-Resistant Closures For Aerosols
Although I gave this article a different title, it is the continuation of my previous one, “What’s New In Child-Resistant Packaging”, regarding child-resistant packaging other than the well-known caps...
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Upside-Down Beverage Containers
When we take a walk along the supermarket aisles and look at row after row of beverage bottles, the consumer can’t be impressed by the design, as almost all have the same dull shape as if they come...
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How The World Packages Fresh Produce
Artfully carved fruit Fruit and vegetables play an important role in healthy nutrition and are high on the list of consumer priorities. However the major obstacle of purchasing ready-to-eat fresh-cut...
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Chinese New Year Gift Packaging – 02
Lantern decorations along Singapore’s Chinatown area for the upcoming Chinese Lunar Year of the Goat The Chinese year 4713, the Year of the Goat ((in some literature it’s called the Year of the Sheep),...
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Who Actually Is The Dominant 2015 Consumer?
Young Millennials Febr. 23, 2015 In my recent article “2015 – A Revolutionary Year In Packaging” I predict that changing consumer behaviour will revolutionise packaging completely. On top of this, each...
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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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The Evolution Of The Bag-In-Box
Coca-Cola isn’t the only one celebrating some milestone in its history. In this case the 100th birthday of the iconic Coca-Cola bottle. There are more celebrations of milestones in packaging this...
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