Finally the holiday season is coming up. Although Christmas time is a period to contemplate, appreciate and relax, after a very stressful and for some depressing year, it is at the same time a period with countless home celebrations and festive get-togethers. It’s always a good idea to include a designated driver as part of [...]
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Chocolate Fondue in 2 minutes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brasilgrafica, Brazil, chocolate fondue, FutureBrand, Garoto, hot plate, Interject, Mack Color, pepper sauce, réchaud, Suzano, Verstegen on 27 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Promising Potential of Bio-based Plastics (part 2)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bio-based feedstock, bio-based plastics, bio-degradable, bio-fuels, bio-plastics, biomass, CO2 emissions, Copernicus Institute, genetically modified crops, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, incineration, MSWI plants, PLA (polylactic acid), plastics, recycling, starch plastics, sustainability, Third Industrial Revolution, University Utrecht on 24 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As promised in my previous article I continue my review of the study “Product overviews and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics”, carried out by scientists of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the University of Utrecht/the Netherlands.
One of the main drivers to develop bio-based plastics is the goal to provide the [...]
Cubis – Innovative ‘cubed’ Beverage Bottles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beverage bottles, Cubis Ltd, Formteknik Verktygs AB, Love for Art and Business, Minab Pac, rectangular cuboid, rectangular hexahedron, rectangular parallelepiped, supply chain on 19 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Notwithstanding the growing importance of cylindrical shaped aluminium cans, stand-up pouches with all types of fitments and rectangular Tetra Pak-like paperboard boxes, the most common packaging for beverages in the present world is the glass or plastic (mostly PET) bottle of various sizes and shapes, but always cylindrical and narrowing at the top to form [...]
The Potential of Bio-based Plastics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bio-based plastics, bio-plastics, Copernicus Institute, EPNOE, epoxy resins, European Bioplastics, European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence, Juliane Haufe, Li Shen, Martin K. Patel, PA (polyamides), PBS (polybutylene succiniate), PBT (polybutylene terephthalate), PE (polyethylene), PEIT (polyehthylene-coisosorbite terephthalate), PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates), PLA (polylactic acid), PTT (polytrimethylene terephthalate), PUR (polyurethane), PVC (polyvinylchloride), starch plastics, thermosets, University Utrecht on 17 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Li Shen, Juliane Haufe and Martin K. Patel of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) recently published a study, titled: “Product overview and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics.”
Who really is interested to work through the 243 pages of the highly-recommended study can download the study [...]
Cultivated in Transit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agata Jaworska, cultivated in transit, damage control, fresh produce, made in transit, mushrooms, supply chain, sustainability on 13 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s have a look at one more futuristic vision in packaging. The vision departs from the supposition that convenience, and product difference – aspects that were the typical characteristics of food products in the last decade – are taking a backseat in a world now more focusing on making a positive impact on freshness, taste [...]
Fancy Packaging Ideas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beverage can, Choi Kwenyoung, creative design, crushing of alu-can, DRD-process, NNew Can, Park Jiwoon, PET bottles, recycling, Seeds in the Bottle, spiral shaped can, sustainability, Yun Hwan Sung on 9 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After my last post, which highlighted a non-glamorous item, it is time to enliven this blog a bit. Worldwide industrial designers come up with new packaging ideas, a large part of these ideas is just self-employment, in other words there is no client involved. They are just the fruits of a creative spirit, no commercial [...]
Packaging Dictionary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Packaging Dictionary on 4 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Packaging Dictionary has been updated extensively per Nov. 01, 2009. A large number of definitions has been added, as well as a large amount of printing definitions.
Looking for a packaging or printing related definition? Click here or choose one of the letters below.
0 – 9
A * B * C * D * E * [...]
Short, Shorter, the Shortest (Part 2)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bericap, beverage bottles, CCT, closures, ComPetCap, Corvaglia Closures, CSI, knurl pattern, MB-Lok mini, neck-finish, PCO 1810, PCO 1881, PET bottles, SuperShorty, Xtra-Lok mini on 4 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the first part of my article (which you find here) I wrote about the consequences of the introduction of the new PCO 1881 standard neck-finish for beverage bottles.
As the beverage industry appears to be ready to adopt the new neck-finish standard, e.g. from PCO 1810 (5.1g / 21mm length) to PCO 1881 ISBT (3.8g [...]
Short, Shorter, the Shortest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beverage bottles, CCT, closures, ComPetCap, greenness, ISBT, neck-finish, PCO 1810, PCO 1881, PET bottles, sustainability on 4 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The item I want to handle today, doesn’t belong to the glamorous part of packaging. However its existence and eventual evolution have tremendous impact on the beverage industry and as a consequence on the sustainability credentials of the beverage packaging: the bottle.
The market environment in the mineral water and soft drinks industry, as well as [...]
CupCan and CreaTin – Creative Design in Steel Cans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged APEAL, Can2Can, Canned Food Alliance, canned fruits, canned milk, canned vegetables, CreaTin, CupCan, Glud & Marstrand, Institute of Medicine (IOM), recycling, school meals, Silgan Containers Corp, steel can, sustainability, tin, University of California on 30 October, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called in its 2009 report “School Meals” for increasing the amount and variety of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, along with reducing saturated fat and sodium, the Canned Food Alliance jumped on the bandwagon and waved vigorously with a study of the University of California at Davis, that concludes [...]
