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The Packaging Professional November/December 2007

Welcome to the Christmas issue of The Packaging Professional, which focuses on packaging materials. Our feature stories include the introduction of US style display packaging in Europe, the importance of sensory branding, and lenticular printing.

The news section examines a carbon-based tax on packaging, the potential of non-stick packs, and embedded radio frequency identification technology. We also take a look at the launch of the Starpack Summit.

 

News

Tax on packaging

The Netherlands’ Ministry of Finance is to introduce a carbon-based tax on packaging from January 2008. The fee for packaging processors is likely to be levied according to a calculation of CO2 emissions from the production of each kilogramme of packaging.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

RFID ready?

Domino Integrated Solutions Group, Dallas, USA and Hide-Pick, Montreal, Canada have developed a system that incorporates a radio frequency identification (RFID) inlay within the packaging structure during production, replacing paper labels to drive down the cost of RFID in the packaging supply chain.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

The future is clear

The world's largest twin PET resin and amorphous PET (APET) sheet complex will open in April 2008. Manufacturing company Octal Holding, based in Salalah, Oman, says its 300,000t capacity plant will capitalise on growing demand for these packaging materials. ‘Over the last 10 years, there has been a migration away from paper/board into plastics, and, more recently, away from general plastics into clear ones,' says Nicholas Barakat, Managing Director of Octal. ‘The emerging substrate of choice is the same material that is used for bottled water and soft drinks - PET.'

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Environmental debate on biopolymers and biodegradable plastics

A seminar on Biopolymers and Biodegradable Plastics, in London, UK, on 3 October 2007, discussed the momentum for bioplastics and the reality of their environmental credentials.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Non-stick coating reduces food waste, facilitates recycling

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany are using plasma processing technology and novel thin films to explore the potential for using non-stick packs in reducing food waste and making recycling easier.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Features

More than just a chat - employee screening and testing

Happy person

A consideration of screening and testing techniques and the development of tools such as job analysis and building employment skills, to differentiate between candidates during the selection process.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Spectacular lenticular - Commercial applications of lenticular printing

lenticular printed products

Reflex Printed Plastics is launching a pack to showcase the lenticular printing technique. Used as promotional messages, lenticular printed images result in significantly higher recall rates than conventional prints.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Sunny perspective - Innovative display packaging designs

Retail display packaging

Mailway Packaging Solutions and Field Group see the use of SunPaq display packaging designs as an innovative solution to the conflicting agendas of extracting maximum market value from the brand, delivering good product condition and reducing waste.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Treat the senses - advances in sensory branding

Bottles of Aroma water: Pure water using a cap as the flavour system

The packaging industry needs to strike a balance between using the latest sensory branding innovations that identify an aroma with a memory and a product preference, and caution about costly improvements and potential market re-launches.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

A very green strategy - Sustainable packaging

Greenshare is a system that is designed to collect, analyse and control environmental outputs relating to packaging in order to build a sustainable economic, environmental and resource management strategy, and to measure this information against environmental legislation if and when it is enforced.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007

Summit to smile about - Starpack's new strategic business conference

IOP: The Packaging Society has relaunched the Starpack Summit 2008 to provide a strategic insight into consumer-led packaging quandaries and solutions affecting the consumer, retailer, brand owner, designer, and packaging and material supplier.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 01 Nov 2007