This month we start again our series of new packaging developments. An ingenious packaging format for artisan square sandwiches, Salanova lettuce to grow in your own kitchen, a paperboard handgrenade holding a boxer short, nostalgic paperboard baskets for fruit and vegetables and from Singapore a Rice Dumpling Box made from nostalgic unbleached kraft. Tri-Star’s Artisan [...]
If you buy one of the ready-to-drink energy or vitamin drinks in the assumption that it will give you the necessary kick, you might be in for a surprise. The kick is not coming and you discover you just drank a very sweet soda, nothing more. Well, sugar of course gives some extra energy, but [...]
To my regular readers it is well-known that I object strongly any use of so-called biodegradable or compostable packaging material. First of all no packaging material biodegrades in a landfill by lack of oxygen and the far too few industrial composting facilities often refuse to take packaging material into their processes. Furthermore, let’s face it, [...]
When we look at coffee cups as a packaging we have seen little innovation over the last years. With the exception of the paperboard cup with foldable handles, the ordinary coffee cup (paperboard or plastic) is the preferred packaging format already for years on end. Recently some innovations in coffee cups got our attention. The [...]
Manufacturing bottles by thermoforming film material is not new. Thermoforming is a generic term for the manufacturing of plastic components through the vacuum and / or pressure forming processes. A simplistic overview of the single-sheet thermoforming process consists of heating extruded plastic sheet and forming the sheet over a male mould or into a female [...]
In June last year, I wrote that “the revolution in the bottling industry is on”. It seems to be working out that way, as recently we have seen some very interesting developments in beverage cans. No, not the well-known metal can, but beverage cans made from paperboard. These developments are pioneering in the aseptic can [...]
The last months of 2011 have seen some serious publications about Food Safety and Packaging, as well as Packaging and Sustainability. I selected the 4 most important to show for further study here. The time of frolicking around is over. The last month of 2011, I wrote several articles about fancy and exclusive packaging designs. [...]
As is tradition each end of the year people are reflecting on the results or performance of the previous year. So do I, and I have to say that I am quite proud of what has been reached. I thank all my readers for the attention they gave my blog and I hope that the [...]
This last day of the year, I will not irritate you with a story about packaging. However, stupidity sometimes leads to a form of packaging, very rare in this world. Well, with an open mind, you can call the following example a form of packaging, namely packaging your car between the walls of a staircase. [...]
This is one of my last articles of this year. We are near Christmas and half of the world has arranged for a short holiday. I can’t imagine anybody having an interest in packaging technology during these days. May I wish my readers a Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or whatever you want to call [...]
