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The Packaging Professional July/August 2007

Sustainability is the theme of this issue of The Packaging Professional. Our feature stories investigate new approaches to packaging reduction and recycling, while still maintaining a long shelf life for products.

The news section reports on advances in security tracking and insulation films. And we also provide an in-depth look at the winners of the 2007 Student and Schools Starpack Awards.

News

Keeping drink cans cooler for longer

Diet coke can

A Nanoskin insulation technology made from a metallised polymer film of one micron-thick vacuum cells could keep food or drinks cooler for longer.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Biometric fingerprints for anti-counterfeiting

ProteXXion, launched by Bayer Technology Services in Germany, is a security and tracking device that uses the biometric fingerprints of individual surfaces to counter fraud in items ranging from packaging to passports. ProteXXion encompasses project management, installation and servicing of the laser surface authentication (LSA) technology invented at Imperial College London, UK. Laser surface authentification combined with RFID tracking device tags could provide an all-encompassing anti-fraud solution. Trials have been conducted on pharmaceutical and tobacco packaging using static scannes on production lines that move up to four metres per second.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Features

Waste watch - Alternative strategies for packaging disposal

Alternative strategies and materials to reduce landfill sites are resulting from the public's perception of the environmental impact of packaging.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Making a difference - Packaging innovations needed to deliver sustainable change

Long standing perceptions of packaging have to change. Companies in collaboration with the consumer need to produce incentive mechanisms that drive that change.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Bags of morals - Sustainability in a fair-trade environment

Sustainable production can involve ethical and social trading ideals such as reducing enviromental harm, manufacturing products in a fair-trade environment, meeting annual recovery and recycling targets, and gaining organic certification.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Consuming passion - The UK Government's waste strategy approach

A look at the UK Government's new Waste Strategy on overall resource management and what the public need to know.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Active packaging - technologies to extend food shelf-life

The concepts, applications and issues involved in active packaging, a technology which extends the shelf-life of food products.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007

Plastics positive - Positives of plastic sustainable packaging

The public perception that synthetic plastics are all bad and 'bioplastics' are the only answer to environmental packaging concerns is incorrect, says Wilfred Haensel, Executive Director of PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers.

Packaging Professional Magazine, 30 Jun 2007