October 2012

Promoting good nutrition and awareness of sustainable packaging benefits among school children are the goals of the made by milk carton construction contest, a unique nationwide student design competition launched august 1, 2012. Schools across the u.s. Can win up to 5,000 by having classroom teams design and construct creations made from empty school milk cartons. The contest, sponsored by evergreen packaging, promotes carton recycling and milk consumption among schoolaged children. Prizes are awarded each semester for creations based on a specific theme.

To help build brand equity and drive sales, makers of spirits, wine, and other alcoholic beverages employ both structural and graphic design elements, using package shapes, labels, and other decorative methods to create shelf appeal for their primary packages. That strategy is also employed by the portlandbased craft brew alliance for its red hook brewery, kona brewing company, omission beer, and widmer brothers brewing beer brands.

Echo360, a provider of blended learning and lecturecapture solutions for the higher education market, recently launched the echosystem safecapture hd recording unit, a product designed to extend the boundaries of highereducation learning by digitally capturing, managing, and publishing classroom content in audio, video, and multimedia formats.

Created by a design agency &39 postler ferguson&39  the packages are intended for use at fresh fish counters.

                The swedish airline malmö aviation has recently launched new breakfast boxes made of paperboard. The new boxes are made of invercote and invercote bio. The boxes save space on board, extend the life of their contents, simplify handling and have a lower environmental impact than their plasticbased predecessors. The environmental impact is reduced because some members of the invercote family of paperboard are certified compostable.

New developments were reported in the voluntary novartis recall in &ldquowhat you need to know about the novartis drug recall,&rdquo from the daily nightly on msnbc.com. It noted, &ldquothe fda warned monday jan. 9 some of novartis&rsquo overthecounter pills may have been packaged with prescription opioid drugs sold by endo pharmaceuticals, which are packaged at the same facility. Those drugs include percocet, endocet, opana and zydone.&rdquo on jan. 8, novartis consumer health inc.

global coffee specialist melitta has selected a liquid carton packaging system from sig combibloc for its coffeeflavored milk drinks. the wake brand beverage, available in toffee, mocca, and chocoberry white chocolate and strawberry flavors, is available in combifitsmall 250ml carton packs&mdashthe first time these onthego cartons have been offered in brazil. &ldquoreadytodrink coffee drinks are becoming more and more popular in brazil, and with good reason,&rdquo says ricardo rodriguez, cluster head south america at sig combibloc.