Archive for the ‘Sustainability’ Category
Monday, December 28th, 2009
A new task group has been added to the Institute of Packaging Professional's (IoPP) Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee (MDPTC). The Sustainability Task Group was announced this month, with the intention of focusing on "the unique challenges sustainability brings to the medical packaging industry, reported MDPTC co-chairs Alison Tyler of ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Several advance press releases for NPE 2009 are focusing on "earth-friendly" plastics and "sustainable" processes. They also discuss "creating value" and "remaining competitive" in "difficult economic times." I am intrigued by these statements because we are in the midst of preparing for next week's "Sustainability 102" Webcast on Packaging Line ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Packaging sustainability has found its first academic home. This week, Clemson University dedicated the 28,000-sq-ft Harris A. Smith Building, home to the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics.
In a release, institute director Chip Tonkin said the institute will focus on four areas:
* Designing environmentally sustainable packages.
* Developing electronic films ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Pharmaceutical and medical device packaging professionals generally seem interested in sustainability, but only if the price is right. Respondents to two polls during PMP News’s exclusive Webcast, “Sustainability 101: Beyond Recycling—Sustainability in a Material World,” explained that some modifications to packaging components and projects will be made to achieve some ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
At Pack Expo this month, I stood in an over-capacity room for Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar's keynote on Walmart's sustainability scorecard. I took in what she said and assumed that the people I was shoulder-to-shoulder with heard the same thing I did. (Our ears were only inches apart.) But when listening to ...
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