Good Things Come in Green Packages

The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) and acceptable business experts Envirowise accept collaborated on a new architecture adviser aimed at allowance artefact and packaging designers, as able-bodied as business managers and buyers, to advance the sustainability of their packaging, optimise costs and focus on accomplishing Environmental aims.

Oxford, UK -- PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design explains how to minimise the absolute aggregate of assets that go into authoritative the packaging, after abbreviation it to an admeasurement that the capacity are spoiled.

The quick reference, applied attributes of the Guide will accomplish it an invaluable circadian alive adviser for anyone absorbed in the ambiance and amount optimisation. It explains what needs to be advised to architecture packaging systems which will optimize the use of materials, activity and water, and abbreviate waste.

The adviser gives applied examples of how to minimise the ecology brand and optimise costs for carrying articles cautiously from acreage or branch to the chump or added end-user.

Jane Bickerstaffe, Director of INCPEN says: "When Envirowise came to us with the ambition of bearing a guide, we were actual agog to get involved. As a House of Lords Committee said in its contempo address on decay reduction, there are gaps in ability on designing for sustainability. We accede and anticipate there is a absolute charge for a quick and simple to use advertence certificate to advice designers accomplish acceptable architecture decisions. We feel this adviser will advice ample that ability gap."

Jenni Rosser, packaging specialist at Envirowise, says: "The charge for eco-design and its aggressive advantage has been recognised by arch retailers, brands and suppliers who are ambience adventurous packaging targets. The Courtauld Commitment for example, a autonomous acceding amid WRAP and above UK grocery organisations such as ASDA, Tesco and M&S, aims to bear complete reductions in packaging decay by 2010 and we accept abounding added companies would see the allowances of authoritative such a commitment."

The PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design is accessible on appeal via the Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794 or visit: http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/GG908

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Notes to Editors
PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design covers the afterward areas:

About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised to absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

 

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794 An encyclopaedic website (www.envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice Over 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions
About INCPEN
The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment is a analysis organisations set up in 1974 to abstraction the ecology and amusing appulse of packaging. It draws calm an affecting accumulation of companies that accomplish throughout the accumulation alternation and allotment a accepted absorption in packaging, the ambiance and acceptable development.

Companies Urged to 'Think Outside the Box'

With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by sustainable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the ecology appulse and costs of packaging.

Oxfordshire, England -- With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by acceptable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the environmental appulse and costs of packaging.
Envirowise
The Envirowise packaging indicator apparatus for eco-design, piloted by Mars Chocolate, enables businesses to analyze the ecology contour of their own packaging designs to analyze area improvements can be made.

A contempo survey(2) conducted on account of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) appear that 82 per cent of humans were anxious by the appulse of packaging, and Envirowise believes there has never been a bigger time for businesses to about-face to greener packaging to advance their ecology accreditation and cut costs.

Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process. However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging. Matt Boulter of the European Packaging Sustainability aggregation at Mars Chocolate says: "Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process."

Envirowise eco-design specialist, Jenni Rosser, comments: "Packaging has been challenged on ecology area for a amount of years and the industry has responded, not alone by putting cogent resources into recycling schemes, but aswell by continuing to abate the use of assets in packaging.

"However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging."

To advice companies get the a lot of out of the new tool, Envirowise has filmed a appropriate advisory podcast. Hosted on the Envirowise website, the podcast takes companies, step-by-step, through the process.

The new packaging apparatus can be accessed at wwww.envirowise.gov.uk/pack-in

For chargeless able admonition on ability ability from Envirowise, businesses can appointment www.envirowise.gov.uk oor alarm the Advice Line on 0800 585794.

For media enquiries and to appeal images or interviews amuse contact:
Graeme Jackson or Matt Pynn at Bray Leino PR
Telephone: 0117 973 1173        

Notes to Editors
About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UKst1:place> businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised to absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794
An encyclopaedic website (envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice
Over 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions

(1) Local Government Association Survey, February 2009
(2) Survey agitated out by Ipsos MORI on account of INCPEN, November 2008

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resource efficiency, ecology impact, environment, ecology administration , sustainabilitys,waste management, sustainable, blooming business ecology action and baptize consumption.

"Green" Wine For Summer: Premium, Single Serve Bandit Wines in Portable, Eco-Friendly Packaging

Three Thieves' individual serve Bandits action breath wine lovers and green-minded consumers exceptional wine in convenient, eco-friendly packaging for all alfresco summer activities. Small, light, simple to open, and recycle, the Bandit 250 ml individual serves can be arranged in knapsacks or barbecue baskets, bringing acceptable acceptance to high-quality California varietals poolside, at the beach, if camping, canoeing or fishing, and at antic events.

St. Helena, CA -- Three Thieves' individual serve Bandits action breath wine lovers and green-minded consumers exceptional wine in convenient, eco-friendly packaging for all alfresco summer activities. Small, light, simple to open, and recycle, the Bandit 250 ml individual serves can be arranged in knapsacks or barbecue baskets, bringing acceptable acceptance to high-quality California varietals poolside, at the beach, if camping, canoeing or fishing, and at antic events.

"Mini Bandits about-face the wine archetype in just about every way," declares Chief Thief Charles Bieler. "No bottle. No opener. Less waste. Less activity use. It's packaging for a blooming planet."

Mini Bandits about-face the wine archetype in just about every way No bottle. No opener. Less waste. Less activity use. It's packaging for a blooming planet. The Three Thieves are all winemakers, so our focus on what's in the box is just as acute as the box itself Aseptic packaging like this is far added able and failing to carriage than bottles, abbreviation carbon dioxide emissions and extenuative fuel. The Bandit packaging is fabricated of Tetra Prisma™, which is comprised of 70% paper, a renewable resource, appropriately abbreviation the packaging decay associated with bottled wine by 90%. In fact, it would crop 26 trucks abounding with abandoned wine bottles to according just 1 barter abounding with abandoned Tetra Pak cartons.

Equally as committed to accouterment consumers with above wine at a abundant value, the Three Thieves are alms the Mini Bandits nationally for $9.99/4-pack in three award-winning varietals--Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio. "The Three Thieves are all winemakers, so our focus on what's in the box is just as acute as the box itself," says Bieler.

Three Thieves (www.threethieves.com), developed by Charles Bieler, Joel Gott and Roger Scommegna, is the arch casting of Rebel Wine Company, a St. Helena, California based collective adventure amid Three Thieves and Trinchero Family Estates. Known as abundant for their avant-garde packaging as for the wine that is in it, the Three Thieves accept acclaimed themselves through their boldness and vision. Collaborating with Trinchero Family Estates, Napa Valley vintners back 1947, the Thieves accept caked their charge to above at a reasonable price, an adage that binds the companies.

Tetra Pak (www.tetrapakusa.com) is the apple baton in aliment processing and packaging systems. Best accepted for its antibacterial technology innovations, Tetra Pak works for and with its barter to accommodate adopted processing and packaging solutions for aliment and is committed to authoritative aliment safe and available, everywhere.

Alupak Appoints PTI Packaging Systems as Premier Agent for the Americas To Promote High Quality Aluminum Packaging - Shelf-Stable - Microwavable - Ovenable

Alupak has appointed PTI Packaging Systems as Americas abettor for their band of aluminum trays and lidding materials. Alupak is the arch ambassador of aluminum cup and tray packaging, with a all-inclusive arrangement of packaging solutions for assorted food, pet food, actinic and medical products. Aluminum packaging offers abundant shelf impact, accessibility for the chump and guarantees continued shelf life. A contempo abstraction sponsored by the European Aluminum Foil Association assured that aluminum packaging can be acclimated cautiously in bake ovens. Aluminum is aswell a 100% recyclable material.

Tuckahoe, NY and Belp, Switzerland -- Alupak has appointed PTI Packaging Systems as abettor in the Americas for their band of aluminum trays and lidding materials.

Pet Food Trays
Sanjeet Saxena, business administrator of PTI, stated, "Alupak is the arch ambassador of aluminum cup and tray packaging, with a all-inclusive arrangement of packaging solutions for assorted food, pet food, actinic and medical products. We are actual admiring to advance the accomplished band of packaging Alupak offers, which are a absolute accompaniment to our bushing and sealing accouterment lines.    Aluminum packaging offers abundant shelf impact, accessibility for the chump and guarantees continued shelf life."

According to Edwin Teufel, sales and business administrator of Alupak, "A contempo abstraction sponsored by the European Aluminum Foil Association (EAFA) assured that aluminum packaging can be acclimated cautiously in bake ovens. Alupak is assured this abstraction will activate above advance opportunities in the development of new articles and for absolute products, back the advantages of aluminum packaging are uncontested. Aluminum is acutely able-bodied ill-fitted for innovative, high-quality packaging."

Alupak packaging is bogus to the accomplished above blueprint in band with our accumulated philosophy," declared Teufel. "Aluminum helps to assure and advance artefact freshness. Aluminum is lightweight, actual simple to appearance and is a awful abiding and adorable material. Our heat-sealable containers are hygienic, heat-resistant, adamantine and simple to open. Alupak aswell offers a amount of ecological advantages, as aluminum protects assets and reduces the decay aggregate in landfills, appropriately allowance abbreviate the appulse on the environment."

Aluminum is a 100-percent recyclable material, and the low tare weight and low aggregate of ample aluminum trays are an ecology additional during transportation. Alupak aluminum containers are acceptable for accustomed ecological products, accessible meals, fish, pates, airline commons and microwaveable products. Aluminum trays are a absolute addition to cans and artificial trays/cups and generally beneath big-ticket for commensurable applications. Containers are accessible according to customer's alone requirements apropos color, appearance and book design, including assorted tray lidding abstracts and designs.

About Alupak Packaging
Alupak AG is a arch architect of deep-drawn aluminum packaging and has served the aliment industry for added than 40 years. As a competent accomplice to companies such as Nestle, General Mills and Ferrero, Alupak has acquired all-encompassing acquaintance and ability accoutrement all aspects of packaging, from bushing options and packaging concepts to aluminium packaging material, accessory packaging and shipment solutions.

About PTI Packaging Systems
PTI Packaging Systems provides top-tier solutions for food, biologic and claimed affliction packaging from accomplishment & distribution, R & D and complete start-to-finish engineering and activity management. PTI's amount competencies and focus is to accommodate end-to-end packaging solutions for new and absolute activity requirements for pouch, sachet, stick pack, cup and tray bushing & sealing applications, antiphon sterilization, automated administration and accessory packaging.

For media inquiries, amuse acquaintance Michelle Wolf for added information.
Tel: 973.252.6039
Email: m.wolf @ ptiusa.com

For accumulated inquiries, amuse acquaintance Sanjeet Saxena at 914.337.2005.
Email: advice @ ptipacktech.com

http://www.ptipacktech.com

Salazar Packaging, Inc. Introduces 100% Post-Consumer Waste Corrugated Boxes

New from Salazar Packaging, Globe Guard™ corrugated boxes are fabricated from 100% PCW material, enabling shippers to advance their acceptable packaging and abutment Green initiatives.

Plainfield, IL -- Salazar Packaging, Inc. (www.salazarpackaging.com), a benefactor of packaging abstracts and accessories with a focus on acceptable packaging, today alien Globe Guard™, its own casting of corrugated boxes fabricated from 100% post-consumer decay (PCW) material. Globe Guard™ boxes are accessible in both accepted and custom sizes and axle constructions.

"We are abundantly aflame about Globe Guard™ and see it as an important addition to the acceptable packaging movement," said aggregation president, Dennis Salazar. "Contrary to accepted perception, corrugated boxes usually accommodate alone 25-35% recycled actual -- or less. Now, top and low aggregate operations can use 100% PCW boxes and badly abate their appulse on the environment."

Besides accidental to a greener environment, Globe Guard™ boxes action buyers addition important account -- affordability. Unlike some packaging articles engineered for sustainability, Globe Guard™ corrugated boxes do not advertise at a premium. Salazar Packaging's banal sizes of the new box band are complete of 32 ECT board, a accepted industry standard.

Sustainable Packaging brings Two Minority Business Enterprises Together
Salazar Packaging, a boyhood business action (MBE), called addition MBE to accomplish Globe Guard™. Cano Container Corporation (www.canocontainer.com), a corrugated area bulb with operations in the Chicago across and on the West Coast, formed carefully with Salazar Packaging to advance the new box line. "We're consistently admiring if we can plan with addition MBE, abnormally if it involves new account and products," said Cano admiral and CEO Juventino Cano. "In this case, we were actual acquisitive to get complex because Globe Guard™ is an ideal way for us to accomplish a allusive addition to the acceptable packaging effort."

Purchasers of the new boxes will be able to apprehension -- and let their barter apprehension -- the acceptable difference. The Globe Guard™ logo is printed on the basal accessory of anniversary box, and Salazar Packaging is alms barter a array of business abstracts and abutment to advice them accurate their ecology message.

Salazar said, "Our customer's barter are the humans active the Green movement. Shippers charge to let barter apperceive about their acceptable efforts. Otherwise sellers will see added and added barter alluvion abroad to what they apperceive as 'Greener pastures'. We anticipate it's awfully important to advice our barter accumulate their barter informed."

Salazar himself is an active acceptable packaging advocate, and speaks frequently to accumulated and ecology associations. His online autograph on acceptable packaging accept appeared in abundant industry magazines, websites, and blogs.

About Salazar Packaging
Headquartered abreast Chicago, IL, Salazar Packaging is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) specializing in packaging architecture and development, acceptable packaging articles and services, and automation of top aggregate packaging operations. Its artefact curve cover automated polyethylene and polypropylene shrinkable and non-shrinkable films, amplitude blanket films, box sealing tapes, and corrugated products. The close sells and casework a abounding band of accelerated accessories to shrink, bag, and allowance automated films of all kinds. It represents arch industry manufacturers including Bemis Clysar® compress film, Autobag® automated bagging systems, Rennco® vertical packaging equipment, and its own band of environmentally affable Globe Guard™ packaging products.

About Cano Container Corporation
Cano Container Corporation, headquartered in Aurora, IL, is a architect of corrugated shipment cartons and accompanying products. The close produces corrugated boxes, sheets, and bogus locations above a advanced ambit of sizes and axle constructions. Since alpha operations in 1986, Cano has acquired a civic acceptability for quality, innovation, and responsiveness. The close is advantaged to be a allotment of the growing association of boyhood suppliers who advice strengthen the U.S. economy. Cano was accustomed as the Minority Manufacturer of the Year in the State of Illinois in 1993 and 2007.

Who's Got scorecard? Will you be Sustainable on Time?

Who's got scorecard? That's the catechism traveling about in 2008 back the Wal-Mart/Sam's Club's sustainability affairs has gone into abounding effect. Manufacturers and merchants who accept been dabbling in authoritative their move to ecology and acceptable packaging accept begin that the procrastinator's alarm has chock-full ticking. The clutter to design, create, and advance new packaging has become a new way of activity for them.

Torrance, CA -- Who's got scorecard? That's the catechism traveling about in 2008 back the Wal-Mart/Sam's Club's sustainability affairs has gone into abounding effect. Manufacturers and merchants who accept been dabbling in authoritative their move to ecology and acceptable packaging accept begin that the procrastinator's alarm has chock-full ticking. The clutter to design, create, and advance new packaging has become a new way of activity for them.

But that's not the adventure at AVC Corp., the Torrance, California, custom packaging aggregation who thrives on ecology and acceptable packaging concepts. Being a affiliate of the Wal-Mart/Sam's Club's Packaging Sustainable Value Network (SVN) for over three years, AVC has been a baton in acceptable packaging. AVC's beat blooming packaging concepts gives their audience both an environmentally acceptable amalgamation and packaging that is unique, fresh, and enticing.

Wal Mart's third anniversary Sustainable Packaging Exposition is accepting captivated April 15-16 in Rogers, Arkansas, and AVC will be announcement their 100% Environmentally Conscientious Booth announcement 100% recyclable packaging solutions. There will be no archetypal clamshells or PVC articles at the AVC booth, alone their patented and apparent awaiting avant-garde acceptable packaging systems advised to aerate your Wal-Mart agenda scores. AVC's articles accept been developed to be environmentally sensitive, use recycled materials, abate artificial content, annihilate non-recyclable abstracts and yet are able to aftermath an even added aesthetically adorable package.

In 2006 AVC appear its apparent awaiting Environmental Rigid Blister (ERB TM) package, an eco-friendly amount able addition to the accepted clamshell. Made from a aggregate of environmentally friendlier plastic, abscess board, and corrugated, the ERB reduces the artificial acceptance from old appearance clamshells by over 50%, replaces PVC with eco-friendly PET, avoids cross-contamination, and allows for 100% recycling of all the packaging components. Furthermore the adorable architecture reduces cubic utilization, artefact amalgamation ratios, and busline costs.

To many, the anticipation of ecology packaging conjures up visions of a addled blooming box fabricated of agenda that has that 'washed out' look. Not so with the AVC's packaging. AVC has apparent that ecology sustainability and aggressiveness in architecture can go calm duke in duke and boasts patented and apparent awaiting designs that can accumulate their client's articles at the beginning of affair the ecology claiming while afterwards in their business goals with adventurous and aesthetic packaging.

A absolute agenda aftereffect for one of AVC's audience shows that the ERB as compared to their antecedent PVC clamshell did the following: 1- bargain absolute amalgamation weight by 34%, 2- bargain artificial acceptance by 51% 3- removed 100% of the PVC, 4- took up 15% beneath depth, 5- alone cross-contamination, which makes the ERB angle abandoned from the competitors, and 5- alien a new bold, beginning design. All this was able alternating with aegis character and recyclability.

What does it prove to everyone? It proves that sustainability can be acceptable for business and convalescent your agenda is just one adjustment of affair our all-around responsibilities. So the acknowledgment to the catechism of "Who's got Scorecard?" is simply, "AVC, of course."

Chicago Consulting Develops 'Optimal Packaging' - A New Cost Reducing Green Technology

Optimal Packaging is a blooming action that aswell reduces packaging costs. Its "optimal" access insures that packaging costs are bargain to the everyman accessible level. The technology has advanced account because even arch CPG companies do not crop advantage of it.

Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 30, 2008 -- Chicago Consulting (www.chicago-consulting.com) announces it has developed Optimal Packaging, a blooming technology that saves packaging costs as well. It's blooming because it reduces burning of forest-based packaging that emits CO2 and is eventually deposited in landfills. It saves amount because it reduces the actual acclimated to amalgamation products. Because of its optimal relationship, it reduces actual to the everyman accessible amount.

Examples of careless packaging are as abutting as our grocers' shelves Some of America's arch chump packaged appurtenances companies aftermath the atomic packaging. Both tall-skinny and short-fat bales use too abundant material. Optimal bales are 'just right.' and has a aggregate of 242.8 cubic inches. An optimally shaped alembic with that aforementioned aggregate would save 7.2% of this packaging material. The aforementioned abstraction applies to the corrugated carton that absolute the 14 Wheaties chump packs alien to the grocer. It measures 15.4 "Examples of careless packaging are as abutting as our grocers' shelves," said Terry Harris, Managing Partner of Chicago Consulting. "Some of America's arch chump packaged appurtenances companies aftermath the atomic packaging." he went on.

Harris claims that Optimal Packaging is the best accessible accord amid the aggregate bare to enclose articles and the amount of the packaging actual required. The close mathematically acquired these relationships for assorted packaging shapes and has activated them to their clients, extenuative millions in packaging and accompanying costs - transportation, warehousing and labor. Harris explains, "Both tall-skinny and short-fat bales use too abundant material. Optimal bales are 'just right.'"

The close illustrates its Optimal Packaging ancestry with the Volume-Area blueprint shown. All cartons and cans (cylinders) have to be on or aloft their corresponding optimal line. All spheres are on its line.

Optimal Packaging has an added and absorbing account - "upward optimality." Optimal chump bales fit calmly into optimal case packaging. This added applies at the bassinet akin and so on.

An archetype is the accepted breakfast atom Wheaties. A 15.6 ounce chump amalgamation of Wheaties measures 7 and 11/16" by 2 and 11/16" by 11 and 3/4" and has a aggregate of 242.8 cubic inches. An optimally shaped alembic with that aforementioned aggregate would save 7.2% of this packaging material. The aforementioned abstraction applies to the corrugated carton that absolute the 14 Wheaties chump packs alien to the grocer. It measures 15.4" by 11.8" by 18.8". Designed optimally it would save 23% of that material. Use a altered case-count and the accumulation go up to 35%!

Companies can access their packaging ambit and account how abundant actual they can save on the firm's web website -- http://www.chicago-consulting.com/optimalCartons.shtml. A white cardboard on this accountable can be begin in the online autograph area of the firm's web site.

ABOUT CHICAGO CONSULTING
Chicago Consulting designs optimal accumulation chains for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. It engineers accumulation alternation apparatus such as procurement, barn networks, account deployment, busline and barn operations. From offices in Chicago and Shanghai the close has activated beat techniques to architecture accumulation chains for over 20 years. Further advice can be begin at www.chicago-consulting.com

Salazar Packaging, Inc. President Discusses New Line of 100% Recycled Content (PCW) Corrugated Boxes in Podcast

Distribution firm's Globe Guard boxes acknowledge to market's growing charge for environmentally friendly, acceptable packaging.

Plainfield, IL -- Companies attempting to aerate the sustainability of their packaging accept had bound options on corrugated containers. Now, with Salazar Packaging Inc.'s new Globe Guard™ boxes, shippers can access 100% post-consumer recycled agreeable boxes in around any appearance and abundance after sacrificing quality.

In a awful advisory podcast appear June 24, 2008, Salazar Packaging president, Dennis Salazar, batten with Ken Rayment of Better Process about the characteristics of Globe Guard™ boxes, blurred recycling terms, and the accepted accompaniment of acceptable corrugated packaging.

Listen to the 12-minute podcast at http://www.podcasternews.com/bpp/5137/industry-report-dennis-salazar-salazar-packaging/.

Podcast Highlights

1. Standard corrugated about contains alone 25-35% recycled material, consisting mainly of in-plant waste.

2. Corrugated manufacturers are afraid to agreement percentages of recycled agreeable due to accomplishment constraints.

3. Globe Guard™ boxes are affirmed to be fabricated from 100% post-consumer decay material.

4. Customers do not cede above with Globe Guard™ - the boxes accommodate to industry standards.

5. With today's accent on ecology issues and the chargeless breeze of advice on the Web, "greenwashing", or sending an inconsistent eco message, poses austere risks for manufacturers and distributors. Even accessory corrugated containers are accepting scrutinized by consumers.

About Salazar Packaging, Inc.
Headquartered abreast Chicago, IL, Salazar Packaging is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) specializing in packaging architecture and development, acceptable packaging articles and services, and automation of top aggregate packaging operations. Its artefact curve cover automated polyethylene and polypropylene shrinkable and non-shrinkable films, amplitude blanket films, box sealing tapes, and corrugated products. The close sells and casework a abounding band of accelerated accessories to shrink, bag, and allowance automated films of all kinds. It represents arch industry manufacturers including Bemis Clysar® compress film, Autobag® automated bagging systems, Rennco® vertical packaging equipment, and its own band of environmentally affable Globe Guard™ packaging products.

About Better Process Podcast
Based in Colorado and above the U.S. via Skype, the Better Process Podcast interviews baby and mid-sized accomplishment companies, and the companies that account these companies. Shows are chargeless to download from iTunes (search for Better Process Podcast in iTunes music store) and are accessible a lot of business days. More advice on the appearance can be begin at www.betterprocess.com. The Better Process Podcast is the articulation of the baby and mid-sized accomplishment firm.

PWP Goes Even Greener with AgroResin Sustainable Packaging - Expands Corporate Initiative for the Environment

PWP Industries, a arch PETE and Polypropylene aliment packaging theroformer in North America, is introducing AgroResin acceptable packaging. Made from renewable agronomical biomass cilia composite, AgroResin is 100 percent biodegradable, compostable and fabricated from non-GM agronomical biomass. Today's consumers ambition packaging that meets their present needs, but doesn't accommodation the needs of approaching generations Adding packaging fabricated with AgroResin® to our band of articles is allotment of our band-aid to accomplish the best packaging on the bazaar with an incomparable charge to the environment.

Vernon, CA -- To advice retailers accumulate clip with consumers who are anytime added environmentally conscious, PWP Industries is introducing AgroResin acceptable packaging. It's added than environmentally affable -- it's allotment of the environment. Packaging fabricated with AgroResin® is 100 percent biodegradable, compostable and fabricated from non-GM agronomical biomass.

AgroResin Packaging

"Today's consumers ambition packaging that meets their present needs, but doesn't accommodation the needs of approaching generations," says Ira Maroofian, President & COO, PWP Industries. "Adding packaging fabricated with AgroResin® to our band of articles is allotment of our band-aid to accomplish the best packaging on the bazaar with an incomparable charge to the environment."

AgroResin® is fabricated from renewable agronomical biomass cilia composite. Once advised a decay artefact and incinerated or placed in a landfill, now agronomical biomass is fabricated into packaging that allotment to the apple afterwards use through composting or biodegradation. It is FDA-approved for absolute aliment contact.

Products fabricated with AgroResin® accept a natural, "earthy" amber attending that adulation beginning aftermath and able aliment products. AgroResin's stiff, abiding anatomy protects beginning aftermath from able-bodied while its absorptive apparent helps to extend artefact shelf-life. It is gas permeable, yet baptize aggressive and can be acclimated in the microwave.

AgroResin® outperforms and is commensurable in amount to added aggressive offerings. It is automation able and accordant with flow-wrap and shrink-wrap systems. Lid embossing is accessible for promotional logo opportunities. The AgroResin® artefact band currently includes aboveboard and ellipsoidal aftermath trays but can be fabricated into abounding shapes for abounding altered applications.

The addition of AgroResin® is an change in an all-embracing corporate-wide blooming action alleged Earth's Pack . PWP Industries currently articles abounding of its artificial articles application post-consumer PETE fabricated from recycled baptize bottles. Its award-winning Tamper-Resistant™ packaging is different for its awfully defended cease that eliminates the charge for PVC compress bands or compress wrap. PWP Industries aswell is committed to added blooming operations and educating barter about sustainability through an employee-led accomplishment alleged Eco-Team™.

For added advice on appraisement and sales for AgroResin® and added articles from PWP Industries, amuse acquaintance PWP Industries, toll-free, (877) 700-0330.

For added advice about this columnist absolution and the absorbed images, contact: Natalie Kirschner, Marketing Manager (323) 513-9000
Irene Savine, Public Relations, (513) 280-1969

PWP Industries, founded in 1998, is a arch PETE and Polypropylene aliment packaging thermoformer in North America, with accomplishment plants amid in Vernon California, Abilene Texas, and Mineral Wells West Virginia. PWP is awful admired in the aliment packaging industry for bearing competitively priced above parts, superb chump service, and avant-garde artefact designs. Learn added at http://www.pwpindustries.com.

About AgroResin®: Designed application a lifecycle approach, AgroResin® is a molded cilia blended fabricated primarily of artificial or lignocellulose cilia networked via adhesives. It takes advantage of the abounding and renewable cilia balance of agronomical farming. The aboriginal molded fibre blended packaging in the world, AgroResin® can be fabricated from any bulb fiber, enabling sustainability and a absolute appulse on the ecosystem.

Salazar Packaging, Inc. Introduces Exclusive Line of Recycled and Recyclable Inflatable Air Pillow Void Fill Cushioning

Globe Guard™ Inflatable Air Pillows are the firm's latest advanced in bringing eco-friendly and economical accessory packaging to the automated market.

Plainfield, IL -- Inflatable air pillows are a accurate abandoned ample champ in agreement of cost, efficiency, cleanliness, and quality. Until now, however, there has been one above check -- they are commonly fabricated with a top allotment of abstinent polyethylene artificial resin. Salazar Packaging, Inc., a benefactor of packaging abstracts and accessories with a focus on acceptable packaging, today alien its absolute band of air pillow cushioning, Globe Guard™ Inflatable Air Pillows, fabricated from 100% recycled artificial material. Shippers now accept an inflatable advantage that combines price, performance, and ecology responsibility.

"Since introducing our Globe Guard 100% recycled agreeable (PCW) boxes, we accept been inundated with requests for an environmentally affable inflatable product," said aggregation president, Dennis Salazar. "We formed harder and continued with our partner, Automated Packaging Systems, Inc. (APS), to advance a 100% recycled actual that would accommodated every achievement apprehension and run altogether through their equipment."

APS (www.autobag.com), is the packaging industry's arch architect of packaging, bagging, and pouching systems, and is accepted common as the artist of Autobag® bagging machines and pre-opened bags. The firm's inflatable systems are awful admired for their simplicity, reliability, and stout construction. Salazar Packaging will advertise Globe Guard air pillows in affiliation with the complete band of APS abandoned ample systems.

Each air pillow is ablaze blooming and imprinted with the Globe Guard logo and the words, "100% recycled". "The ecology bulletin is absolutely important," said Salazar. "Today it is analytical that your eco bulletin is clear, accessible and connected to your chump accepting and aperture your box. Our Globe Guard abandoned ample and our Globe Guard boxes accomplish it simple for our barter to accomplish those goals."

Inflatable air pillows action affecting anatomic advantages over added abandoned ample materials. Besides accepting an acutely low assemblage cost, they abate entering and outbound busline amount and crave actual little attic accumulator space, clashing beefy apart ample "peanuts", balloon material, and packaging foams. Salazar observed, "When you add eco-friendly to the mix, Globe Guard™ just ability be the absolute abandoned fill."

About Salazar Packaging, Inc.
Headquartered abreast Chicago, IL, Salazar Packaging is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) specializing in packaging architecture and development, acceptable packaging articles and services, and automation of top aggregate packaging operations. Its artefact curve cover automated polyethylene and polypropylene shrinkable and non-shrinkable films, amplitude blanket films, box sealing tapes, and corrugated products. The close sells and casework a abounding band of accelerated accessories to shrink, bag, and allowance automated films of all kinds. It represents arch industry manufacturers including Bemis Clysar® compress film, Autobag® automated bagging systems, Rennco® vertical packaging equipment, and its own band of environmentally affable Globe Guard™ packaging products.

About Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.
Automated Packaging Systems, Inc. has been a apple baton in designing and accomplishment adjustable bag packaging systems for added than 40 years, and is the aboriginal artist of Autobag® bagging machines and pre-opened bags. Today, the close is the alone aggregation accomplishment 18-carat Autobag casting bags-on-a-roll, SidePouch™ specialty bags, AirPouch™ void-fill bags, and a abounding band of baggers and bag packaging equipment. Headquartered in Streetsboro, Ohio, APS is a all-around packaging supplier, with sales, service, and administration offices amid throughout North America and Europe, and added than 25,000 packaging systems in operation worldwide. With 5 accomplishment plants, Automated Packaging Systems produces added bags-on-a-roll and bagging systems than all competitors combined.

Molded Fiber's Green Packaging: Sustainability Merges with Packaging for the Retail and Health & Beauty Markets

Molded Fiber, a UFP Technologies brand, today appear that it has added its focus on the assembly of its 100% recycled molded lurid packaging for both the retail and the bloom and adorableness affliction markets. Recent accessories additions accept included ample platen, top burden presses all-important in the assembly of "after-pressed" parts, which action a college adept address than commonly formed molded pulp.

Clinton, IA -- Molded Fiber, a UFP Technologies brand, today appear that it has added its focus on the assembly of its 100% recycled molded lurid packaging for both the retail and the bloom and adorableness affliction markets. Recent accessories additions accept included ample platen, top burden presses all-important in the assembly of "after-pressed" parts, which action a college adept address than commonly formed molded pulp. Molded Fiber's Product Manager, Steve McLaughlin addendum that the accretion costs of petroleum-based articles such as foams and plastics accept led to a apparent access in absorption and business from abounding ample customers. "With the accepted ambiance benign acceptable types of products, including packaging, we accept had a aciculate access in the akin of absorption from both ample chump appurtenances and bloom and adorableness affliction companies that crave a amalgamation with a college adept appeal." McLaughlin goes on to acknowledgment that the added absorption has translated into abiding advance for the molded lurid packaging industry.
Molded Fiber 100% Recycled Protective Packaging
Some of the packaging applications that accept fueled advance accept been after-pressed trays, clamshells and inserts with appearance including blush and acutely authentic arresting chump logos. McLaughlin says that Molded Fiber's capabilities in acute locations allows for a bland accomplishment on two abandon and the adeptness in accomplishment to authority a design's altruism abundant added closely. He does attention that use of blush for a part, added than the abject card gray, usually alone makes faculty for actual top aggregate projects. "The actuality that we can bear a allotment that satisfies some of the a lot of analytical eyes in the bloom and adorableness affliction bazaar and accept that allotment be fabricated from 100% column chump recycled agreeable is actual satisfying."

About Molded Fiber
Molded Fiber is North America's arch artist and architect of autogenous packaging solutions fabricated from 100% recycled paper. Commonly referred to as molded lurid packaging, it is a amount able and environmentally affable band-aid that reduces activity and saves amplitude while accouterment above aegis at every date of a product's sales cycle. For added advice alarm 1-888-671-7774, appointment www.moldedfiber.com or email info@ufpt.com .

With the accepted ambiance benign acceptable types of products, including packaging, we accept had a aciculate access in the akin of absorption from both ample chump appurtenances and bloom and adorableness affliction companies that crave a amalgamation with a college adept appeal. The actuality that we can bear a allotment that satisfies some of the a lot of analytical eyes in the bloom and adorableness affliction bazaar and accept that allotment be fabricated from 100% column chump recycled agreeable is actual satisfying. About UFP Technologies, Inc.
UFP Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ -- UFPT) is an avant-garde artist and custom advocate of foams, plastics and accustomed cilia products. The aggregation serves its barter through three above brands: United Foam, Simco Automotive and Molded Fiber; bearing a all-inclusive arrangement of custom-engineered packaging solutions and basic articles in eleven accomplishment accessories above North America. Its barter cover arch companies in six amount markets: Automotive, Computers & Electronics, Medical & Scientific, Aerospace & Defense, Consumer and Industrial. For added advice on UFP Technologies' articles and capabilities, acquaintance Sue Midura, UFP Technologies, 172 East Main Street, Georgetown, MA, 01833, (800) 372-3172, appointment www.ufpt.com.

AgroResin Rainbow - Adding Bright New Colors to the Sustainable Packaging Spectrum

PWP Industries has launched a bright new alternation of biodegradable packaging, AgroResin Rainbow, an amplification of its AgroResin cilia blended packaging portfolio. The Rainbow alternation is a acceptable - yet air-conditioned - best of packaging for decaying produce, quick-service, arctic and cafeteria aliment applications. The array of active colors opens up agitative new possibilities for the use of the already accepted packaging The acute and acutely adorable colors of the AgroResin® Rainbow alternation accept been distinctively formulated to accentuate the packaging of aliment and aftermath to enhance their business appeal. The development of the Rainbow alternation makes AgroResin® a abundant acceptable - yet air-conditioned - best of packaging for decaying produce, quick-service, frozen, and cafeteria aliment applications

Vernon, Calif. -- Imagine a amalgamation as red as an angel and just as biodegradable. PWP Industries has afresh launched a bright new alternation of biodegradable packaging, AgroResin® Rainbow, accretion its AgroResin® cilia blended packaging portfolio.

AgroResin Rainbow

"The array of active colors opens up agitative new possibilities for the use of the already accepted packaging," says Scott Sanders, Director of New Business Development, PWP Industries. "The acute and acutely adorable colors of the AgroResin® Rainbow alternation accept been distinctively formulated to accentuate the packaging of aliment and aftermath to enhance their business appeal."

The Rainbow series, accessible in abounding shapes, sizes and colors, is absorbent to air, baptize and grease resistant, and microwaveable. "The development of the Rainbow alternation makes AgroResin® a abundant acceptable - yet air-conditioned - best of packaging for decaying produce, quick-service, frozen, and cafeteria aliment applications," explains Dr. Yan Xu, Founder and Managing Director of GRENIDEA, a acceptable actual company.

AgroResin® Rainbow allows companies to activity a hip angel which will address to adolescence audiences, and with the adjustable best of a spectrum of clear colors, companies can bout tones to accompaniment their aliment presentations. In addition, the use of AgroResin® Rainbow promotes companies as acceptable accumulated citizens through their acceptance of a acceptable alternative.

For added advice on appraisement and sales for AgroResin® and other products from PWP Industries, amuse acquaintance PWP Industries, toll-free, (877)-700-0330. www.pwpindustries.com

PWP Industries, founded in 1998, is a arch PETE and Polypropylene aliment packaging thermoformer in North America, with accomplishment plants amid in Vernon, California, Abilene, Texas, and Mineral Wells, West Virginia. PWP is awful admired in the aliment packaging industry for bearing competitively priced above parts, superb chump service, and avant-garde artefact designs.

About AgroResin®: Designed application a lifecycle approach, AgroResin® is a molded cilia blended fabricated primarily of artificial or lignocellulose cilia networked via adhesives. It takes advantage of the abounding and renewable cilia balance of agronomical farming. The aboriginal molded cilia blended packaging in the world, AgroResin® can be fabricated from any bulb fiber, enabling sustainability and a absolute appulse on the ecosystem.

Carmen Wines Go Green with Lighter Wine Bottles

The aboriginal winery from Chile to use lighter bottle wine bottles.

Chile -- There are common apropos for the environment, and anybody is accomplishing their allotment to abatement the carbon footprint, abnormally consumers and industries. Consumers are ambitious beneath packaging and the use of recyclable abstracts in their appurtenances -- and wineries are a absolute archetype of adopting these ecological measures. Carmen is the aboriginal winery in Chile and in South America to chase ecology initiatives which began with the WRAP Wine Institute (Waste and Resources Action Programme) in the UK to actualize lighter bottle wine bottles.

Carmen Winery Logo

Carmen -- the exceptional winery from Chile -- has bargain the weight of its Classic bank wines. This action has resulted in ascent down the boilerplate canteen weight from 17.28 ounces to 14.81 ounces, a 15% abridgement that will aftereffect in accumulation of added than 343 bags of bottle per year. By application lighter weight wine bottles Carmen's carbon brand is badly reduced, which in about-face has a absolute ecology aftereffect above the absolute accumulation chain. The abatement in canteen weight lowers the achievement for activity consumption, accomplishment materials, decay administration and aswell facilitates ability handling.

For Carmen, the failing canteen is one added footfall against extensive even greater able appulse on the environment. "The seek has just amorphous to authorize the appropriate weight in all of our wine packaging," commented Juan Pablo Ruiz, Carmen Export Director for the USA market. "According to all-encompassing bazaar research, the lighter wine bottles absorb the capital packaging functionality and do not affect casting integrity, which makes for a acceptable situation. When it comes to ecology apropos and wine packaging, beneath is absolutely more."

Ecological apropos accept led abounding countries, such as Ireland, one of Chile's better wine markets, to accept austere ecology measures to affliction for the planet, including abbreviation packaging and recycling bottle waste. As an example, the UK bazaar -- the world's better wine importer -- consumes about one billion 750ml bottles of wine anniversary year, which in about-face after-effects in about 2.8 actor bags of bottle packaging entering the country's decay beck anniversary year. Glass bottles represent about 40% of all domiciliary acknowledgment packaging, and abbreviation the weight of wine bottles will accept a above appulse on the environment. Decreasing canteen weight in Carmen wines is accepted to aftereffect in accumulation of added than 1,875 bags of CO2 emissions anniversary year - which is almost the agnate of the emissions from 500 cars!

For added advice amuse acquaintance Donna White or Rebekah Polster, 718-403-0097.

About Carmen Winery
Carmen--founded in 1850 as the aboriginal Chilean winery--has a history of addition and success. In 1987, the Claro Group acquired the casting to focus in the all-embracing exceptional wine segment. A new winery was complete in 1992 and new vineyards were buried to aftermath the best above wines from Chile and consign them worldwide. Today, with exports of over 500,000 cases to added than 60 countries, Carmen is one of the a lot of important Chilean wineries. Carmen owns 1,626 acreage in the a lot of celebrated Chilean growing areas such as Alto Maipo -- acclaimed for its superb Cabernet Sauvignon -- Casablanca and Limarí.