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Tom Robertson, senior lecturer in packaging technology at the Institute of Technology & Engineering, Massey University, showcases global packaging trends and developments.
Recyclable shrink film labels
Of course your new bottle is compostable then your shrink label has to be too, even your pet’s food. So a new product called Sniffers® Shake-Ins™ Meal Enhancers has an EarthFirst® PLA shrink film label. There is however, no mention as to the material the bottle has been made from but the promotion states that it is 100 per cent recyclable. The question I have is why aren’t they using the same material for all the packaging components – now that would work!
For more information go to:
www.convertingmagazine.com/article/CA6521882.html and www.chompinc.com/news/20/72/
A new website – packaging images of all types!
An awesome site with lots of packaging images at: www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php
This is a new venture that has great packaging available to look at and you can download the 2000 x 1600 pix pictures – high resolution pictures require you to register for US$395 per year and includes the following benefits:
Unlimited access to thousands of high-resolution photographs of package photography from around the world
New photos added every day
Download any photo for internal use via a convenient shopping cart (no additional charges)!
Search by keyword, company, brand, or product category
Navigation can be instantly changed to any of over 25 languages
Print photos directly to a photo printing service
Leverage international network of photographers by paying for custom package photography assignments
Comment on package photography
Share your own collections by tagging photos with like keywords.
An interesting site for packaging design – it is in Beta form at present and I hope it remains – and maybe get a little cheaper.
An example is this Art Xocolatl (Mexico) – An innovating bottle plus an attractive top design produces a great visual balance. Is a modern and elegant package full with colours. Winner in Envase Estelar AMEE 2007.
www.globalpackagegallery.com/main.php/v/bev/juice_001/New+Art+500+ml.JPG.html
A real cool website for great new packaging … for example this is just one of many!
Professional perspective
Steps to sustainability begin with packaging optimisation
This is another article about packaging sustainability, but this one has been written by a packaging professional and the first couple of sentences give you an idea of the content – definitely worth reading.
“Environmental, social and economic concerns keep sustainability at the forefront of business operations.”
Although much is being said about sustainability, companies still grapple with what sustainability means to them and they look for ways to apply its principles to their business. There are many different paths to attain sustainability, but one often-overlooked area can yield significant results: packaging optimisation.
A key misconception is that packaging sustainability improvements increase cost. This is not necessarily true. New generation packaging materials developed for biodegradability and compostability may indeed have higher prices. However, packaging optimisation, combined with the use of the latest eco-friendly materials, will ultimately lead to improved packaging sustainability and cost reduction.”
I particularly like the rethink relating to the key miss conception that sustainable packaging costs money.
Read the rest of the article at:
www.packworld.com/view-24484
Martell’s new Creation® Grand Extra premium blended cognac
This product comes in an amazing bottle – go and look at:
www.creationgrandextra.com/ENGLISH/home.asp
It really is an amazing bottle but the following note was in:
www.convertingmagazine.com/article/CA6521882.html, and refers to the packaging this amazing bottle comes in. “Setup box for high-end cognac masquerades as coffee-table art book.”
The Alliora division of France’s Ileos (www.ileos.com), a paperboard-packaging converter for the fragrance, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, met the challenge recently to present “a bottle as art” for Martell’s new Creation Grand Extra premium blended cognac. The solution: a setup box that, until opened, masquerades as a large-binding, coffee-table art book.
Closed, the setup box is garnished by offset printing, two hot stampings (gold and copper) as well as embossing. The Creation signature and Martell logo are appended to the box front via double hot stamping (blue and gold that subtly overlap).
Opened, the left side of the box is decorated with the Martell coat of arms; the middle binding is labelled by the logo, text and a blue hot-stamped signature and the right side’s beige thermoformed base holds the bottle meant to be reminiscent of a Roman arch.”
I have not found a picture of this packaging and I would love to see it – so if you can find a picture could you please send it to me – thanks.
To boost recycling, make it profitable
Another interesting article from Converting Magazine
From: www.convertingmagazine.com/article/CA6521883.html
The author notes: “With sustainability rapidly becoming a top priority for packaging business, recycling is destined to become a more valuable component of this movement. However, it won’t reach its full potential until industry, government and consumers take action to make recycling a profitable part of business.” Now that sounds just like the Packaging Accord that New Zealand Industry has with Government and all we need now is to make it easy for the consumers to do their part, as some local Government are doing!
RFID becomes more of a label business – Converters investigate opportunities as market looks to quintuple to $25 billion in 2017
From the same magazine and article on RFIDs at:
http://www.convertingmagazine.com/article/CA6521884.html
Dr Harrop predicts “the RFID business quintuples to $25 billion in 2017, involving hundreds of billions of tags, it is becoming more of a label business”.
This article provides a very brief history of RFID and discusses some recent developments. More information can be found at: www.idtechex.com/RFIDUSA
New organic juice drinks have less sugar and calories packaged in a Stand-up pouch
“Faribault Foods, Minneapolis, has introduced Nutri-Squeeze certified organic juice drinks for children as part of its popular line of ten per cent juice drink products in 200ml (6.75 fl oz) foil-laminated, standup pouches. The pouches have a straw attached to the outside that can be removed and punched through the top of the pouch for easy consumption”
The pouches are hidden inside these ten pack units and you can read more at about the production and packaging of these stand-up pouches at Faribault’s plant in Elk River, MN, in a future issue of Packaging Digest.
www.faribaultfoods.com/products/beverages
Black XS is anything but basic
According to Packaging Digest “… Black XS Pour Elle is now available from Paco Rabanne in a mysterious, sensual version for women. The curvy bottle in a ruby-toned glass is topped with a matte black overcap from Alcan Packaging Beauty (www.alcan.com) and is molded of “bi-injected,” copolyester encasing a heavy, dark Zamak component under a smooth, highly glossy, deep black outer layer. A band is then snapped onto the cap to enhance the base of the stunning black part with a thin metal collar. The results are “as daring as they are glamorous.”
Just what the NZ glass industry needs – another coloured glass to recycle, and this one a ruby-toned one (that’s another way of saying red isn’t)
From: www.packagingdigest.com/article/CA6516555.html
Now for some more from the www.globalpackagegallery.com website
Rubens Apple (The Netherlands)
The new apple variety Rubens is packed in a promotion package. The box is made of corrugated cardboard and is printed in four colours offset with a varnish layer.
Source: Verpakken
Four Seasons produce kiwis (USA)
The independent produce wholesaler packages its products in compostable produce trays made of palm fibre from Earthcycle Packaging.
For more information about this unusual packaging medium – palm fibre – go to: www.earthcycle.com/
These are using NatureFlex™ Film also a compostable film – thus both pack and wrap are compostable.
Article from New Zealand Food Technology
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