WalMart Green Business Summit
Category: Sustainable Packaging
2/12/2010
Jadina Irving
Several of us from TricorBraun's Vancouver office were pleased to be able to attend Wal-Mart's Green Business Summit on February 8, 2010.
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A New Website Promotes Glass for Packaging
Category: Sustainable Packaging
10/13/2009
Cindy Evans
As the importance of sustainable packaging continues to rise, a new resource, www.friendsofglass.com, presents helpful attributes about the value of glass. The website showcases glass containers and offers information including:
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Avoiding Closure Defects
Category: Engineering
3/30/2009
David Messing
There are many defects that can arise when putting a package together for a customer. One that we see fairly often is closure cocking on the bottle when applied during production. This presents the possibility of two potential problems with the package for the customer.
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Think Before You Drink...
Category: Package Design
03/28/2009
David Snyder
Recently we had a client come in that wanted to do a custom personal care bottle design that played off of the ever growing bottled water/ flavored water bottle market-A 22 plus billion dollar a year Industry. With this in mind I set out to find out a bit more about bottled water. Below are a few interesting details pulled off of Webmed and Ashdonaldson. After digging into this the old phrase “think before you drink” took on a whole new meaning…
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Facing the Challenge of Sustainability
Category: Sustainable Packaging
11/01/2008
Suzanne Fenton
Whether you agree or disagree about what they are or the severity of them, the environmental issues we face today are pivotal concerns for today’s society. It seems to me that more and more companies recognize that their customers are being challenged by the end consumers, which means more business challenges for everyone. At TricorBraun, some of the questions we are now asking are, ”How can we help our customers provide products in packaging that will be good for society as well as good for their business? What are we, as a corporation, doing to be more sustainable?”
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Hip to be square?
Category: Package Design
10/24/2008
David Snyder
When a major wholesale club store chain first launched its new square offset neck milk jug, I thought …WOW. This is fantastic. Someone finally came off of square one with the design of the long lasting, center neck, plastic milk jug that has been around forever.
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Quality in Every Aspect
Category: Engineering
10/22/2008
Joseph R. Haun
Quality can sometimes be a thankless profession. The old adage “Don’t shoot the messenger.” oftentimes applies. When you are in charge of quality, whether it is a small machine shop of ten assemblers or a multimillion dollar conglomerate, and someone makes a mistake, you ultimately made that mistake. When things go badly, you must be the bearer of bad news; but when things run smoothly with no mistakes, management wonders why they need you.
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Will Power in a Single Serving Package
Category: Packaging Trends
10/15/2008
Jennifer Romero
Just about every woman I have known, friend, family member, or co-worker, has at one point in her life, sometimes on a regular basis, dieted. With today's society being comprised of an increasingly figure conscious population, this applies beyond my normal sisterhood of fellow dieters. Various fad diets have come and gone, but one method has stood the test of time -- calorie counting. The miracle of modern packaging has made this process simpler for today's dieter especially in the snacking arena.
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