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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.
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Case Study: Hear from a specialty sports manufacturer who took control of their packaging production and realized a 75% cost saving.
January 26, 2017 @ 2pm EST
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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.
We will also have copies for sale at PACK EXPO International 2016 in booth N-4512!
Click here to visit IoPP's Bookstore.
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
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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Dec. 22
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Western New York Chapter Meeting |
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Jan. 19
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Western New York Chapter Meeting |
Contact: Diana Solt. Click here for more details.
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Feb. 8
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Cal Poly Packaging Career Fair |
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Feb. 9
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Poly Pack Symposium |
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Feb. 16
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Western New York Chapter Meeting |
Contact: Diana Solt.Click here for more details.
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Packaging World
With irreverent, catchy copy on its website that includes "Bold on buzz and easy on the stomach," "the most bad-a** beans," "Coffee made for Makers," and "Get your buzz on," Chameleon Cold-Brew has taken a similar unconventional approach to its packaging, with a chameleon graphic that shimmers and sparkles on-shelf.
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Healthcare Packaging
It goes without saying that upgrades during a manufacturing shutdown pose less risk as there are no products being produced, but there are instances when it is critical to expand capacity or modify functionality while maintaining some processing. For example, manufacturers upgrade certain areas while maintaining process operations on adjacent lines.
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Beauty Packaging
A recent report shows that the cosmetic packaging market is hotter than ever, with predictions that it will reach $33 billion by 2024. Trends in cosmetic packaging continue to influence and define innovation with examples ranging from sizes, offered materials used and special effects. While some innovation is truly breakthrough, much of it focuses on certain elements of function or design meant to capture consumer interest.
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Packaging Digest
What packaging technologies will pharmaceutical and medical packaging professionals be sourcing in 2017? We recently surveyed professionals involved in the pharmaceutical and medical packaging community about their technology needs over the next 12 months and how they stay educated. The survey findings, based on the responses of 210 professionals, indicate a focus on product identification, package usability and cost savings.
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Packaging World
One of the best ways for a brand owner to determine what aspects of their packaging have the greatest environmental impact is to conduct a thorough Life Cycle Assessment. Recently, Mars Drinks, a division of Mars Inc. that provides vending and single-serve hot-beverage systems for workplace environments, commissioned such a study of its Freshpack pouch.
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Plastics News
Coca-Cola European Partners has launched a new "twist" bottle format and label for its Abbey Well Spring Water, which aims to be more environmentally friendly and encourage consumers to recycle more. The new design of bottles, said CCEP, is the result of a $17.8 million investment at its bottling facility in Morpeth, England.
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Packaging Digest
Packaging teams are most successful when they take advantage of the strengths of their members. Sometimes this means understanding and adopting different thought processes, which is especially powerful when colleagues share their prized ideologies with each other. After exploring the particular talents of millennials, baby boomers and the Silent Generation, the focus now falls on Gen X — the "middle generation" stuck between two headline-grabbing generations.
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Beverage Daily
The final step in the craft brewer's process is also one of the most important — choosing the right packaging. Understandably, brewers want something that will highlight the nature of their artisan product.
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