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Nominations are now being accepted for IoPP's National Honors & Awards
IoPP
Members who volunteer their time to IoPP deserve recognition and, with your help, IoPP acknowledges the contributions made by individuals for their outstanding service to the Institute and to the packaging community as a whole. Do you know an IoPP member who is deserving of National praise? Any current IoPP member may nominate a fellow IoPP member who meets the National Awards criteria by submitting a nomination. Induct someone today!
To nominate your choice of an IoPP member who is worthy of this honor, please click here.
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Save the date! AmeriStar & Visionary Awards Reception coming in June
IoPP
The 2014 AmeriStar & Visionary Awards Reception, taking place June 10 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City during EastPack, honors those packaging professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the packaging community, recognizing their foresight and innovative spirit. IoPP's AmeriStar Packaging Awards competition commemorates the best packages of the year and UBM Canon's Packaging Group Visionary Awards pay tribute to the people of packaging who show vision and leadership in advancing their company's goals of packaging innovation, differentiation, savings and growth. IoPP and UBM Canon bring these two powerhouse awards programs together in a ceremony to celebrate the trailblazers in the packaging industry. Register today!
For details, click here.
New blended program, built for your schedule, can help you become a company visionary
IoPP
Do you need to sharpen your packaging skills and want online training, but also desire to be part of a small online instructor-led study group of your peers — with focused discussion on packaging applications that matter to you? And to do it all without leaving your office? Fundamentals Select, IoPP's new hybrid training option, is designed for busy working professionals like you. At the end of the 10-week program, you'll have essential, broad-based packaging knowledge that can make you a go-to professional on your packaging team and enhance your career growth. Don't miss out! The first study group will begin April 28 and is limited to 12 participants.
For details and registration, click here.
Second Oliver Stauffer discussion to continue IoPP Premium Webinar Series
IoPP
Container closure integrity is distinct in its definition, and new package formats and products present uncharted territory for Container Closure Integrity Testing. Using key questions in package development, gray areas of CCIT can yield definitive answers and technological solutions that assure product safety. This IoPP Premium webinar, taking place from 1-2 p.m. CST April 17, will offer insight into understanding and defining the Critical to Quality leak size for various package and container formats, and how to manage sterile barrier integrity.
Click here for details and to register.
Optimize your packaging with a visit to SouthPack
IoPP
See what's new and exciting in the industry at SouthPack, April 15-16 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C. Discover the newest packaging and processing technologies, connect with suppliers one-on-one, and compare solutions side by side. Enhance your expo experience with the all new Learning Labs — two-hour interactive sessions designed to tackle your greatest technical and strategic challenges. Plus, don't miss all the new Speed Networking event, new innovation tours of the show floor and more. SouthPack is supported by the IoPP.
For more information on all event features and to register, click here.
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Would your product sell better if your packaging looked customers in the eye?
Entrepreneur
Want more people eyeing your product? A new study suggests you should try and get your packaging to make eye contact.
A study by the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab found that when characters or people on a cereal box are positioned to make eye contact with a customer, the customer's appreciation of the brand significantly increases.
Top 25 impacts on flexible packaging supply chain
FoodProductionDaily.com
Smithers Pira has released a report which shows which trends will impact the flexible packaging market over the next 10 years.
Smart packaging turns science fiction into fact
Food Processing
New approaches to intelligent and active packaging are altering consumers' experience of food products, adding interactivity to some and increasing palatability for others.
Definitions of intelligent (or smart) and active packaging abound. For the purposes of this article, "smart packaging" interacts with consumers — via smartphone, for instance. "Active packaging," on the other hand, interacts with its own internal or external environment. In-pack odor-absorbing patches are in this camp.
One designer's lonely crusade to make packaging disappear
Slate
When Aaron Mickelson decided to tackle the problem of packaging waste for his Pratt Institute master's design thesis The Disappearing Package last year, he wanted to go further than minimizing package size. So he gave five leading household products clever and radical eco-friendly makeovers that eliminated packaging altogether.
England to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes
The Guardian
Standardized plain packaging for cigarettes is to be introduced in England, following a comprehensive review of the evidence which found unbranded packs could cut the number of children starting to smoke.
Public health minister Jane Ellison told the House of Commons that she would introduce draft regulations swiftly "so it is crystal clear what is intended" — although there will be a short consultation.
Eco-friendly labels give foods a natural face
FoodProductionDaily.com
Lightning Labels says putting natural-leaning food and beverage products inside sustainable packaging and labels can turn shoppers into customers.
Independent study reveals ease of opening influence
Packaging Europe
Ease of opening a product's packaging is a top priority influencing the purchase decision of older people according to an independent study among the over 65s undertaken by Sheffield Hallam University for Macfarlane Labels, part of the UK's leading packaging company.
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April 9
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Meadowlands Chapter Event: Brand Protection Packaging Through DNA, East Rutherford, N.J.
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Contact: Gordon Ellis, email gellis@estee.com. Click here for more information.
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April 15-16
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SouthPack, Anaheim, Calif.
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April 17
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IoPP Webinar: The Path to Container Closure Integrity, Online.
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Contact: Jim George, email jimg@iopp.org. Click here for more information.
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April 24
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IoPP Southeastern Chapter Event: NextPack 2014, Atlanta, Ga.
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Contact: Steve Mohr, email smohr@sigmasupply.com. Click here for more information.
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