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IoPP
Throughout August, IoPP presents educational content on food packaging through its "IoPP Spotlight" education initiative. If you're an IoPP member, you can opt in to receive this insightful educational content throughout the month. Simply update your member profile to receive the content you want. If you're not a member, join IoPP now as an individual member so you don't miss out on this and many other valuable member benefits — including frequent webinars — throughout the year. IoPP Spotlight months will provide tips and trends, insights and updates from various subject matter experts working in partnership with IoPP. And throughout August, much more about food. IoPP Spotlight in August is sponsored by Mocon and supported by Packaging World.
Click here for IoPP's August Spotlight.
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Have you ever wondered about packaging implications of key trends affecting food and other products? For example, more than 50 million Americans have arthritis. One in five Americans spends less than 15 minutes preparing dinner. And many millennials want to know more about how food is grown, and they view food not just as nutrition but also as entertainment and self-expression. Find out how to relate today's food culture to tomorrow's packaging at IoPP's upcoming, information-packed standard webinar "The Changing Face of Health & Wellness, and Implications for Packaging," taking place from online from 10 to 11 a.m. CDT on Aug. 20.
Click here for more information.
Packaging Strategies
Numerous packaging attributes are critical to consumers when making beverage choices, according to new data from the Can Manufacturers Institute. The research, which is conducted to support the new Open Up to Cans campaign, focuses on four core beverage can performance benefits: product taste and integrity, innovation, performance and sustainability. The campaign promotes the aluminum can as a superior package for beverages.
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Packaging World
Recent food product recalls due to potential health hazards have created the need for detailed monitoring of food safety at every step along the supply chain. As a result, the market is seeing the introduction of new pathogen testing technologies, novel packaging, intervention technologies and advances in electronic tracking systems.
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Food Production Daily
Global demand for pouches in the food market will grow by 2,489 million pack units between 2014 and 2017 — a 14.9 percent increase in the total food pouches market size, according to Canadean. It believes glass, metal and paper packaging are slowly falling out of fashion, while flexible packaging such as pouches is becoming more popular.
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Army Times
Military researchers are examining new ways to improve your Meals Ready to Eat — without even touching the food. The Army says using a new non-foil material for food packaging could make MREs weigh less, cost less and better serve the environment. But probably the most important benefit to service members: It could provide a more airtight barrier to protect food and ensure freshness.
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IoPP
If you're planning to attend PACK EXPO Las Vegas this fall, please stop by the IoPP booth and say hello! IoPP will be in Booth C-1253. We welcome your comments and suggestions so that IoPP may continue to evolve and find ways to add value to your membership. PACK EXPO Las Vegas, co-located with Pharma EXPO, will be Sept. 28-30 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
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You can still view the AmeriStar winners online at www.iopp.org/AmeriStar. Each category has its own presentation, giving you the opportunity to see packaging innovation at its best. The Top Three winners are also highlighted representing Best in Show, Design Excellence and Sustainable Packaging.
Click here for video presentations and a complete winner overview.
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That moment when your packaging hits the machine is critical in controlling packaging costs. Yet many packaging professionals wish they had more knowledge of the dynamic between package and machine so they could improve operating efficiency. IoPP’s Packaging Machinery: Basics seminar gives you this knowledge, and it’s coming up Oct. 5-7, 2015 at The Frain Group in suburban Chicago, near O’Hare Airport. John Henry, CPP, who has decades of experience in packaging, teaches the seminar and takes the class to Frain’s expansive machine shop floor to view and discuss real packaging machines. This seminar is for packaging developers, those who manage or work closely with machine operations and need more formal training, and materials supplier technical or sales reps needing to know more about machines their materials and containers run on. View the seminar outline and register today!
IoPP
Did you know IoPP can help you build a packaging training program and then send our certified instructors to your company to teach it? IoPP has helped dozens of companies achieve their training objectives, with the added benefit of instruction tailored just for your company, so everyone learns the same way, thereby streamlining your work processes. In-house training programs are built using IoPP’s internationally acclaimed Fundamentals of Packaging Technology course. To find out how IoPP might develop an in-house training program for your team, contact Jim George, IoPP Director of Education, at jimg@iopp.org.
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IoPP announces it is partnering with Pharma EXPO 2015, enabling both organizations to provide promotion and support opportunities for their members, while attendees find solutions, connections and insights needed to stay competitive in the marketplace. PACK EXPO Las Vegas is celebrating its 20th year in 2015. Pharma EXPO will be co-located with PACK EXPO Las Vegas Sept. 28-30, 2015 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. While attending PACK EXPO Las Vegas, be sure to visit IoPP at Booth C-1253. IoPP welcomes your comments and suggestions so that IoPP may continue to evolve and find ways to add value to your membership.
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Aug. 20
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IoPP Standard Webinar — The Changing Face of Health & Wellness, and Implications for Packaging |
Contact: Jim George, email jimg@iopp.org. Click here for more information. |
Aug. 20
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IoPP Golden Gate Chapter Anchor Steam Brewery tour, San Francisco, California |
Contact: email parke192@gmail.com . Click here for more information. |
Aug. 20
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IoPP Central Indiana Chapter Presentation: "Aseptic Packaging," West Lafayette, Indiana |
Contact: Dan Cunningham, email LTCDAN@comcast.net. Click here for more information. |
Aug. 20
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IoPP Michigan Chapter Two James Distillery Private Tour, Detroit, Michigan |
Contact: Mike Naseef, email mike.naseef@orbiscorporation.com. Click here for more information. |
Aug. 29
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IoPP Fox Valley Summer Social: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Game, Appleton, Wisconsin |
Contact: Chris Dejardin, CPP, email cdejardin@norkainc.com. Click here for more information. |
Sept. 11
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IoPP Minnesota Chapter Golf Tournament, Majestic Oaks Golf Club, Ham Lake, Minnesota |
Contact: email ioppmn@comcast.net . Click here for more information. |
Sept. 15
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IoPP Chicago Chapter Dinner, Hoffman Estates, Illonois |
Contact: Jorge Gomez email jgomez@walmark.com. . Click here for more information. |
Sept.15-16
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IoPP Technical Bag Committee Meeting, Greenville, South Carolina |
Contact: Mike Jenkins, email mjenkinsgluesystem@att.net Click here for more information. |
Sept. 21-23
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IoPP Chemical Packaging Committee Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia |
Click here for more information. |
Sept. 28-30
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PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Click here for more information. |
Sept. 28-30
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Pharma EXPO, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nebada |
Click here for more information. |
Plastics Technology
A bimodal homopolymer HDPE which features up to 50 percent higher moisture barrier than standard resins has gained significant ground as a barrier layer in multilayer flexible food packaging, particularly in "easy-open" cereal and cracker packages. Surpass HPs167-AB, a 1.2-MI, 0.966-density resin for blown film from Nova Chemicals (U.S. office in Moon Township, Pennsylvania) is one of the high-barrier materials made with Nova's Advanced Sclairtech dual-reactor process and single-site catalyst, referred to as sHDPE.
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Packaging World
Patches, inhaled insulin, an absorbable sponge, surgical mesh, and a coronary stent system are among the examples of combination products approved by and listed on the U.S. FDA’s Office of Combination Products’ website.
Potential confusion from emerging therapies is addressed head-on by the agency in the following statement:
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Packaging News
The Healthcare Cold Chain Complete card has two indicators — the ShockWatch ColdMark and ShockWatch WarmMark and the combination of the two indicators allows medics to identify temperature breaches within areas such as blood storage refrigeration units (+2C to +8C), in transit or in buildings.
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Packaging World
Sharp Clinical Services increased its capability to fill capsules for the pharmaceutical industry with the acquisition of MG America’s Planeta 50 continuous capsule filling machine.
Sharp Clinical Services serves the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with clinical trial materials support, services, and project management, from pre-formulation to global logistics and distribution. Sharp Clinical Services is a division of Sharp Packaging Services, a UDG Healthcare company.
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