In myprivatebrand of March 15, 2012, Perry Seelert , strategic partner of united* dsn, a design consultancy in New York and San Francisco, wrote about what he called: The Self-Congratulatory Syndrome. I freely extract and interpret some of his words: The Awards within the industry seem to have gotten a little crazy, with all the [...]
This year the UK is in the spotlights of the world. First of all we have the Olympics and secondly, but not less important, it marks the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. On 6th February 1952, whilst staying in a remote part of Kenya, Princess Elizabeth received news of her father’s death and [...]
As said in my previous article Fresh Produce Packaging, today we will see the Squircle clamshell of Hollandia, the Two Piece Display-Ready Asparagus Shipper, the Peel/Reseal Apio Squash Package Ocean Mist’s microwavable artichokes and Pattruss, the tetrahedral shaped salad bag from Japan. Hollandia Live Gourmet Butter Lettuce At the recent conference of the Produce Marketing [...]
Tomorrow, Sunday, the 22nd of April, will be Earth Day and the internet will be overloaded with the most beautiful photos of what is left of this planet. This is all nice and dandy from an historical point of view, with the accent on historical. Yes, let’s show our children how beautiful the earth once [...]
In three articles I like to highlight the recent developments in packaging of fresh produce. Fresh produce can be seen as one of the most important commodities of the food market. And only growing in importance, as more and more consumers opt for fresh and minimally processed food. As an example we take the Scots. [...]
In my second article about developments in pharmaceutical packaging (see my previous one about the Talking Packaging) I will show solutions for the PIL (Patient Information Leaflet). A PIL often is a dual or multi-layer leaflet, sometimes even in the form of a booklet. They consist of a single- or multi-page leaflet, which, in one [...]
From the packaging systems exhibited at the Anuga FoodTec 2012, running in Cologne, Germany last month, I selected three to highlight here. Gerhard Schubert presented its new tube filling and closing machine, Robert Bosch Packaging Technology presented its new SurePOUCH clean-fill (SPC) machine, and K-Robotix showed its robots for (naked) food products. We end with [...]
You might remember that in a previous article about the Talking Packaging for Healthcare products, I referred to an interview in Packaging World, where Richard Adams, head of Pack Graphic Design at GlaxoSmithKline, gave the following answer to the question, about what he is looking for from packaging suppliers: “In a word, innovation – innovative [...]
In my previous article I already mentioned the “immense” stand of 4,800 m2 Tetra Pak had at the Anuga FoodTec 2012. To justify this size Tetra Pak had not only to showcase its full range of packaging solutions and its range of dairy processing equipment, but also had to come up with a number of [...]
