December 2012

It takes quite an effort to open a new package of tylenol. It has a cardboard packaging, pushandtwist top and safety seal. In the past, you just had to pop the cap. Thirty years earlier, in the suburbs of chicago, seven people consumed poisoned tylenol and died. The nation was shocked, and pharmacies panicked and took off tylenol from the shelf. That area&rsquos firefighter and one of the first investigators of the tylenol murders, richard keyworth, confirmed that investigators learnt that the poison was hidden in bottles of tylenol.

transparency market research report on green packaging market recycled, reusable &amp degradable, regarding worldwide scenario, size, share, industry analysis, trends, and forecast from 2011 to 2018, stated that rapidly growing economies, a lack of natural resources, increasing awareness of carbon emissions, waste reduction targets, and preference of consumers for ecofriendly productshas driven the growth. the report shows that in five years, the market is expected to be worth 178bn &pound111bn.

by early 2013, packaging production is expected to be completed, while it slowly moves to facilities in the next six months. the department transfer will affect about 18 employees. facilities in lawrenceville of georgia, new hebron of mississippi and dallas of texas will receive the transferred work. however, lima will continue to have the pellet manufacturing, product development, and corporate offices of the company.

a study by packaging world and dupont reported that cost will be replaced by sustainability as one of the most challenging factor in the packaging industry in 10 years. today, cost is the major factor driving the industry as per 59 percent of respondents of the 2012 survey of future packaging trends. 500 industry professionals were surveyed in the study. it signified that in the next 10 years, europe and north america will face a decline in importance of cost by 28 percent, compared to sustainability that stands at 51 percent, and food safety and security standing at 37 percent.

a&nbspmessage will be featured on reusable glass bottles and yogurt film of the company. straus family creamery&39s position on prop 37 is conveyed in the message, which will appear on all its products in california as &quotwe have a fundamental right to know what&39s in the food we eat and feed our children&quot. if proposition 37 is passed, foods including genetically modified gm ingredients had to get a label as &quotgenetically engineered&quot on their packaging.

a warning was given by the packaging and films association pafa that if china implements bans on plastic import, the uk will face failure sooner than expected. last month, an announcement was made by china&rsquos ministry of commerce and national development, ministry of environmental protection, and reform commission, wherein it planned to apply regulations, such as prohibiting unwashed postconsumer plastic import banning transfer of imported waste to a company not stated on the import licence, and forbidding unwashed plastic leftover trade from sorting imported plastic and paper.

with the commitment of the london organizing committee of the olympic and paralympic games locog to a zerowastetolandfill objective, recycling of all soft drink bottles disposed at the venues of the olympic and paralympic to new bottles within six weeks was pledged by cocacola. expecting to sell almost 20 million bottles of cocacola products during the games was a difficult attempt. a cocacola spokesperson told plasticstoday that recycling bottletobottle has been undertaken for the first time on a large scale in a short timeframe.

packaging innovations exhibition had a launch of the oris flex pack web contract proofing bundle, which was partnered by cgs and esko contract quality proofs and packaging mockups were permitted for creation on a range of substrates by the bundle, along with a roland versacamm vsseries printer. revolution graphics, a uk distributor, stated that the move to contract quality packaging proofing resulted from a new cmyk ink set, and orange and green xg inks.