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IoPP
Congratulations to IoPP Member Pierre Pienaar, CPP, who will succeed Tom Schneider, CPP, as president of the World Packaging Organisation for the 2018-2020 term. Pienaar became the the first Certified Packaging Professional in Australia in 2015. He is the Owner and Director of PackTech Solutions Pty Ltd, in Queensland, Australia, and currently serves as a mentor for the Australian Institute of Packaging.
IoPP
Build essential packaging skills with Fundamentals of Packaging Technology courses. Don’t miss semesters 3 and 4 Oct. 16-20 at IoPP’s modern training facility in suburban Chicago! These courses are non-cumulative, so don’t worry if you missed semesters 1 and 2. Fundamentals of Packaging Technology is endorsed by the World Packaging Organisation as a standard for overall packaging knowledge. IoPP members can get as much as 20 percent off registration!
Learn more and register now.
IoPP
Join IoPP Oct. 23 – 25 for the final Packaging Machinery: Basics seminar in 2017. Learn how to optimize your packages for a variety of packaging machines at Frain Industries, a longtime IoPP benefactor. View and discuss actual packaging machines in Frain’s expansive machine shop and get money-saving tips from John Henry, CPP, a 20-plus-year veteran of packaging and plant operations who has taught this seminar for many years.
Learn more and register now.
IoPP
Visit IoPP’s booth, C-1347, at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Sept. 25-27 to learn about our new eLearning system! If you’re attending, don’t forget to check out the 2017 AmeriStar Packaging Awards on display at the Showcase of Packaging Innovations®.
Learn more about PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
KTM Industries
In Q1 2017, UPS and FedEx processed 28.5 million packages per day! Each package requires a certain amount of protection to arrive in good shape. Selecting traditional packaging materials made from fossil fuels may provide the needed protection, but creates environmental problems when it’s time for disposal. There is a technology available today to solve both problems – Green Cell Foam.
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North Bay Business Journal
While sales of fine wine directly to consumers is growing in share, many purchase decisions still are made at the store shelf. And freshening up brand packaging can help a vintner keep or win key shelf positioning, but the odds are high that redesign could backfire, according to consumer packaged goods experts who recently briefed industry designers.
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Engineering.com
Reusable medical devices pose some unique challenges for design engineers, particularly when it comes to the proper selection of materials, adhesives, sealants, coatings and encapsulants.
Surgical instruments, implantable devices, catheters, endoscopes and ultrasound probes are just some of the medical devices that require adhesives, each requiring their own specific material, adhesive, sealant, coating and encapsulant properties for their particular applications.
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Packaging Digest
The floor-level FL6200SW can stack and stretch-wrap a wide variety of challenging package types including unwrapped trays, shrink pads, film-only bundles and more. The new FL6200SW combines high-speed stretch wrap technology with a contemporary, modular and clean design, user-friendly palletizer. As a fully integrated feature, the stretch wrapper includes a dual-motor stretch carriage that can be programmed to allow varying pre-stretch levels at different places during the wrap cycle; for example lower stretch at the bottom of the load to protect the film from tearing on pallet corners.
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Packaging World
Globally, the meat and poultry industries are seeing steady gains as new markets open where local populations did not have regular access to meat or poultry. A growing middle class in developing countries, the expansion of food safety regulations, and an increasingly global trade network have allowed consumers in developing markets to incorporate more meat and poultry into their diets.
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Beverage Daily
Despite declining soda consumption and sugar sweetened beverage taxes going into effect across the U.S., Coca-Cola saw its soda revenue rise 4 percent in 2016 thanks to smaller packaging.
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Packing World
Glass packaging production in Europe grew by 2.9 percent in volume (tonnes) and by 2.1 percent in unit terms in 2016 according to data published by the European Container Glass Federation (FEVE). The data included the production of container glass for food and beverages in the EU, Switzerland, and Turkey based on direct industry production data from FEVE member companies compiled by Vivid Economics for FEVE.
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Packaging World
With much of the Southeast U.S. digging out from the destruction caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the FDA has issued Hurricane Safety Resources, which addresses water storage and food as well as medical supply safety due to rain, flooding and power outages.
The public health report also offers tips pertaining to drugs exposed to water, insulin storage in an emergency, medical devices, vaccines, blood and biologics.
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Aluminum Insider
Recognizing new trends in beverage packaging, American packaging firm Ball Corporation is debuting three new can sizes to its slate of beverage package offerings.
The three new sizes, namely 25 Cl Sleek, 45 Cl Super Sleek and 90 Cl King, will make their world debut at drinktec 2017. However, both the 90 Cl and 45 Cl versions are already available and in use in the Russian Federation by domestic beer brewers in response to alcohol exise duties in that country.
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