Packaging

Competition to remain open until Feb. 2; winners to be recognized in May.

Robotic palletizer and stretch wrapper provide consistent stacking of heavy bags.

Cotton-based insulated box liners and envelopes offer benefits beyond maintaining product temperatures.

Big acquisitions, an improving economy and some new players change the landscape heading into 2015.

Winners to be announced at April forum focusing on best practices, challenges, and benefits associated with reusables in a supply chain.

The newest members of the association are Drader Manufacturing, a manufacturer of reusable products including containers, bins, pallets, dunnage, and other protective packaging; and Paxxal, which provides a pallet series made from Siluma – a new patented material designed to outperform plastic.

Report highlights impacts of nearshoring, on-demand packaging and a rising domestic economy.

New depot to serve more than 50 consumer goods manufacturers.

Loose fill specialists EJ Co. are located close to customers and are familiar with regional market.

Four companies share how they successfully connected the data points to streamline their operations.

New product with lid eliminates stretchwrap, banding when securing pallet loads.

Debut of Pharma EXPO plays crucial role in increase.

A new study shows the corrugated industry continues to dramatically decrease its use of wax coatings.

PMMI released the findings of its 2014 State of the Industry: Packaging Machinery Shipments Study (SOTI) and 2014 Secondary Packaging Market Research Study this week at a press briefing conducted on site at PACK EXPO International and Pharma EXPO 2014.

DuPont Packaging today announced the formation of an Advisory Panel to help ensure the industry’s longest running, independently judged competition continues to foster and celebrate packaging innovation around the globe.