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PACKAGING NEWS
NEW - AICC'S 13th International Corrugated Packaging Design Competition Winners
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NEW - Clemson Breaks Ground on New Packaging Science Building
Clemson University broke ground recently for a new 28,000-square-foot building to house components of the packaging science and graphic communications departments in what will be the future home of the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics..... [more]
NEW - Thermoformed Plastics Packaging Provides Better Barrier Protection
The success of a packaging format developed by RPC Tedeco-Gizeh Bouxwiller for dessert manufacturer Lucien Georgelin has been underlined by a prestigious award given to outstanding food products..... [more]
Source - jobwerx
NEW - Impact Award Winners
View all of the award winners and best of show winners..... [view]
NEW - Starpack on Track for May
The Packaging Society has re-launched Starpack - the UK's most prestigious packaging awards - to include a high-level strategic business conference, called the Starpack Summit..... [more]
Source - packaging essentials
NEW - Graphic Packaging Loss Widens to $13.9 M
Graphic Packaging Corp., which will likely close a $1.8 billion deal to merge with Altivity Packaging LLC by the end of the year, slid to a deeper loss for the third quarter after charges related to operations in Sweden..... [more]
Source - Atlanta Business Chronicle
Chesapeake Corporation Dedicates Pharmaceutical Paperboard Packaging Plant in China
Chesapeake Corporation , a leading international supplier of value-added specialty paperboard, plastic and pharmaceutical packaging, today dedicated its new pharmaceutical paperboard packaging plant in Kunshan, China..... [more]
Source - CNN Money
New Site Launched - Packaging Your Invention
Whether you plan to sell on the Internet or in a retail outlet, do you know the one thing that inventors need to know to ensure their invention's success?..... [more]
Sealing Technology for Packaging Processes 2 Day Seminar
Sealing Technology for Packaging Processes is designed to give engineers a complete understanding of the various techniques for applying heat to flexible and semi-rigid packaging in order to achieve quality seals..... [more]
EskoArtwork
EskoArtwork is the worldwide market leader with pre-production and collaboration software for packaging buyers, designers and manufacturers. Its portfolio of software products integrates graphic, structural and process management functions for packaging, label, sign and display applications.....Learn More
Tesco: hoping US consumers give it the Green Light
Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, has announced that its 2007 entry into the US market will focus heavily on 'green' and ethical issues. Tesco is taking advantage of growing environmental awareness among US consumers, and hopes to position itself as a truly 'green' grocer, complete with eco-friendly stores, trans fat-free foods and even a new green.....more>>>
Sustainable Packaging Operations
Early in the development phase, starting with ideation, a designer needs a sense of understanding that the choices made will impact the whole supply chain. The product should be designed to be safe to make in the converting process, safe to use, and function as intended by the customer who will ultimately be able to benefit from the sustainability.....more>>>
Prices of packaging papers remain stable, pulp prices creep up
Pulp Index on August Pulp & Paper Price Indices rises 1.07% above July 2007, gains 6.79% compared to August 2006. Indicator also shows rapid implementation of $20/tonne price hikes for eucalyptus, northern, southern bleached hardwood grades, as well as delayed effect of July's $20/tonne increase for NBSK, southern pine. Packaging Papers Index remains same.....more>>>
U.S. Food Container Demand to Reach $23.5 Billion in 2011
U.S. demand for food containers is forecast to climb 3.3 percent per year to $23.5 billion in 2011, representing nearly 300 billion units. Advances will be stimulated by an expanding population base, rising disposable personal income levels, smaller household sizes, heightened demand for more convenient foods, and trends toward value-added packaging that provides freshness protection and increased convenience. These and other trends are presented in "Food Containers: Rigid & Flexible," a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm. Plastic containers, and bags and pouches will log the fastest growth among.....more>>>
Food Film for Fresher Fruit
New flexible packaging film allows fresh produce to be sold as "convenience" food, as it preserves fruit and vegetables for longer, the manufacturers claim. The film is likely to be popular with many consumers, who are increasingly turning towards apparently fresh.....more>>>
New J&J Packaging Product Addresses Wal-Mart's Push for Sustainability
Consumer product manufacturers are facing increasing demands as a result of a sustainable packaging initiative from Wal-Mart. Early in 2006, J&J Packaging began designing a package that could provide a solution. In May of 2007, it applied for a patent covering a package that it brands, SuSTANDable, which is a trapped blister card that converts to a.....more>>>
DISPLAY NEWS
NEW - Ten Years of POPAI Brazil
Congratulations to POPAI Brazil on their 10 years in the POPAI family!
Merchandising Inventives offers Full Line of Custom and Stock Extrusions
MI is an established leader in the P.O.P. industry since 1946. This year they are celebrating 60 years of success built on commitment and loyalty to both customers and suppliers. Visit their site to learn more about all of their extrusion capabilities [more]
POPAI 2008 Digital Signage Awards Contest [more]
2008 OMA Contest is now accepting entries - Entry Deadline is January 18, 2008
POPAI's Outstanding Merchandising Achievement awards contest continues to be the industry's largest and longest running awards contest. The annual competition celebrating its' 50th Anniversary, recognizes the most innovative and effective marketing at-retail displays and programs which lift sales and make products memorable and enticing to consumers.......Click here to Learn More>>>
San Francisco POP Show
POPON is proud to announce of category sponsorship with the premier pop show on the west coast. The show will celebrate excellence and creativity while reinforcing sense of community among P.O.P. Professionals. Our staff at POPON share this same sense of community which makes our involvement with this event that much more special..... Download Winners List
RETAIL NEWS
POS Cuts at Retail Hurting Vendors
As retailers are taking charge of branding the consumer shopping experience, traditional merchandising is starting to take a back seat to new in-store technologies.....more>>>
POPAI University - Private label vs. Brands
It's hardly a surprise that brand owners tend to view private labels as a threat to their business, while retailers view them as an ever more important part of theirs. Learn from this webinar.....REGISTER>>>
A Frontier in Franchising
Michael A. Klump didn't start out thinking he'd be the largest IHOP franchisee in the country. The founder of Atlanta-based Argonne Capital Group LLC at one time was a shopping center developer who started his own real estate investment trust, Equity Investment Group, in 1993. Now he's the largest IHOP Corp. franchisee in the United States, having purchased.....more>>>
Wal-Mart Considers Changes To Stores as a Rival Emerges
Wal-Mart said yesterday that it was considering new store sizes and types in the United States but played down the possibility of acquisitions as it faces slowing sales growth at its older stores and new competition from British rival Tesco.
The world's largest retailer said it was hiring managers for a team to consider new formats beyond the four established U.S. types. Those are Wal-Mart discount stores, Supercenters that combine groceries and general merchandise, Sam's Club membership stores and Neighborhood Market grocery stores. The prospect of acquisitions was raised.....more>>>
ASD/AMD New York Variety Merchandise Show
ASD/AMD New York Variety Merchandise Show, September 9 - 11, 2007, is the wholesale merchandise sourcing event where Value, Volume and Variety meet. This important pre-holiday marketplace, held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, attracts thousands of national and international key players from all facets of the variety merchandise industry, for this highly anticipated order-writing event.
ASD/AMD New York Variety Merchandise Show is the most significant East-Coast-based variety merchandise show of 2007, in the country's key market: New York City This must-attend show features.....more>>>
PRINTING NEWS
NEW - Unfoil Presents Stunning Printing and Packaging Materials
Stunning sustainable packaging and printing materials that are easy to design with, convert, and print on are available now from Unifoil Corporation..... [more]
NEW - Pitney Bowes to Cut 1500 Jobs
Pitney Bowes announced 4 strategic actions aimed at enhancing shareholder value..... [more]
Source - WhtaTheyThink
NEW - Public Printer to Address Sustainability Conference Banquest at Cal Poly
A reception and banquet featuring the Honorable Robert C. Tapella, the newly appointed Public Printer of the United States, will follow "The Business of Green Media," sustainability conference..... [more]
Source - WhatTheyThink
Geyer Printing Company Keeps Pittsburgh as its Home
(PITTSBURGH) October 12, 2007 — Geyer Printing, a Consolidated Graphics Company announced today that they will be relocating from their current location at the intersection of Bigelow Boulevard and the Bloomfield Bridge to a new facility located at 55- 38th Street.... [more]
Will You Still Love Me in The Morning?
For years, printers have been adding alternative print processes to their flexographic printing. Particularly in the label market, it is not uncommon to find screen decks included on flexo presses. Most printers include screen to add a tactile affect or when they require a heavy laydown, especially for white. More recently, though, press manufacturers have been building machines with offset and sometimes gravure stations.
Why combine any other process with flexo? It depends on the type of work being done and the demands.....more>>>
Graph Expo 2007 Expands Appeal to Wide Format Printers
Wide format printers, sign and banner shops and display companies attending this year's GRAPH EXPO will be treated to the latest production wide format technology, substrates and applications, along with an information-packed educational program specifically designed to help them become more productive and profitable.
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