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IoPP
IoPP's annual Salary Survey, produced in conjunction with Gros Executive Recruiters and Packaging World magazine, is looking for your personal take on the economy. This is the ONLY survey of its kind dedicated to the packaging professional and your input is vital to the packaging community. By participating, you are contributing exclusively for your profession. All survey participants will receive the final Salary Survey for free when it is published in early spring. Pressed for time? It doesn't take long! Expect to get through the survey in less than five minutes. And for your added convenience, use your mobile device to take the Salary Survey today. Bonus! When you submit your survey, don't forget to download the Gros Executive Recruiters Insider's Report!
Go here to take the Salary Survey.
IoPP
This webinar will take a comprehensive approach to packaging development, productivity and failure remediation, focusing on areas such as, the good, better and best approach to driving out cost, looking for opportunities, defining requirements, doing the engineering, how to approach from a new product development standpoint and how to approach with existing products. Join IoPP and presenter Rob States at 10 a.m. CT March 16.
Learn more and register here.
IoPP
Does your package have what it takes to win IoPP's AmeriStar Best of Show Award in 2017?! AmeriStar honors the top packages of the year judged in multiple categories. Three new categories are available this year under Save Food Awards. Enter the best package you and your team developed within the past year and be recognized for changing the face of packaging! LIVE judging will occur at the end of April 2017, ensuring your packages are being evaluated and analyzed objectively without bias.
Packaging students, don't forget AmeriStar is for you too! View competition details here.
Professional entry details here.
IoPP
Learn to be a more effective designer by understanding how your packages function on various machines. Understand the factors that determine whether your new package is designed to operate properly on a packaging line. View and discuss actual packaging machines. Get all this and more at IoPP's Packaging Machinery: Basics seminar, taught by instructor John Henry, CPP. Announcing 2017 classroom dates! Packaging Machinery: Basics seminars will be March 20-22 and Oct. 23-25 at Frain Industries in suburban Chicago. Frain, a longtime IoPP benefactor, has proudly hosted this seminar for many years.
Click here for details.
IoPP
Attend IoPP's Fundamentals of Packaging Technology this spring, summer and now the Fall in IoPP's state-of-the-art training facility in suburban Chicago! Prepare for your Certified Packaging Professional (CPP) designation or further your knowledge in all of the major areas of packaging in as little as two and a half days! Spring dates are in March/April, summer dates are in June/July and fall dates are in September/October.
Click here to learn more.
IoPP
The new edition of one of our best selling books, provides significant updates and information from the Second Edition, published in 2004, which is now out of print. It was reviewed and updated by packaging industry veteran Robert Meisner, CPP-Fellow, with contributions by subject matter experts-both individuals and organizations-around the transport packaging industry. The book has been revised throughout to reflect new and updated regulations and standards, and best practices, adding to previous editions compiled the late Alfred H. McKinlay, CPP.
Click here to visit IoPP's Bookstore.
IoPP
HealthPack 2017, taking place March 7-9 at Denver Marriott City Center in Denver, focuses on trends in medical device packaging. HealthPack offers a chance for attendees to ask questions directly to operating room nurses and technicians about the packaging they use in the course of their work, at HealthPack's signature nurses panel. Also, attendees will have the chance to learn from our stellar lineup of speakers. You can view the full agenda here.
IoPP Members will receive a $100 discount off of their registration — another great benefit of IoPP's membership!
Click here for more information about HealthPack 2017.
IoPP
Did you know that IoPP now offers multiple internet-based learning options at both the basic and advanced levels of packaging? With IoPP's eLearning options, take ANY IoPP online course or individual lesson on your own time. Web-based options include Fundamentals Online and Packaging360 Leadership. Fundamentals Online is IoPP's signature Fundamentals of Packaging Technology course in an online format and, like the in-person course, completion of the online version can prepare you to take the IoPP Certified Packaging Professional (CPP) exam. Getting IoPP Certified has never been easier! Packaging360 Leadership is an advanced, online-only course offered exclusively through IoPP, which focuses on packaging issues and their correlation with business issues. Taking this course can help accelerate your professional development by helping you gain a deep understanding of how packaging touches other points of business, and how you can develop packaging that not only meets consumer needs but also becomes an asset for your company. Grow professionally — take an online course today!
Click here for information about Fundamentals Online.
Click here for information about Packaging360 Leadership.
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March 2
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Fox Velley Tour Event — Green Bay, Wisconsin |
Contact: Craig Hable. Click here for more details.
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March 9-11
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Packaging Jamboree at RIT |
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March 16
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Western New York Chapter Meeting |
Contact: Diana Solt. Click here for more details.
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Beauty Packaging
The word "innovative" has come to mean many things when it comes to beauty, as evidenced with the products shown here. From a brushless mascara to new deco techniques, disruptive packaging remains one of the best ways to attract consumer attention.
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Beverage Daily
Coffee pods will continue to be a major factor of global coffee growth especially in developed markets, such as North America and parts of Europe, which account for 90 percent of coffee pods sales.
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Packaging World
Heralded by some consumers on social media as a "#gamechanger," pre-tapped young coconuts are now available at Whole Foods Market stores that make drinking fresh-from-the-fruit coconut water simple and convenient. Whole Foods launched the product in November 2016 in 56 of its stores in Arizona, Southern California and Southern Nevada.
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CNNMoney
To tackle Thailand's mounting trash problem, one company is turning to the country's plant life. Universal Biopack makes packaging that it sells to restaurants and manufacturers. But rather than plastic, it uses a mixture of bamboo and cassava, crops that are widely found across the country.
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Packaging Digest
Water Event wants water to take its place among wine, tea and other beverages that come in bag-in-box packaging. The company distributes AquaViBox water in 10-, 15- and 20-liter single-use packages that comprise a corrugated outer box with an ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) bag. The water tap, branded Vitop, is supplied and converted along with the rest of the bag components by Smurfit Kappa.
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Packaging World
Packaging for Booths' own label wine recently underwent a redesign, led by Smith&+Village. Smith&+Village played on the U.K. supermarket's heritage as a wine importer, which contributed to an increase in sales of 4.3 percent during the Christmas season in 2016.
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Quartz
Have you ordered a tube of toothpaste online, only to have it arrive in a cardboard box the size of a small farm animal? You're not alone in your frustration: Since 2009, Amazon customers have submitted 33 million packaging-related comments, ratings, and photographs to the company. But as counterintuitive as it may seem, e-commerce has not led to an overall increase in cardboard consumption in the US.
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BakeryAndSnacks.com
Deltasacs, which specializes in plastic pouches, stand-up and flat-bottom confectionery bags, has launched packaging with biodegradable and compostable materials.
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