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Plastisol Liners: The Sound of Safety If you have ever opened up a glass jar with a metal lid, you might have noticed a gratifying "schlurrr-pop" sound (yep, that’s the technical term). I love this sound because it reassures me that I’m the first to open this container since it left the m... |
Post-Consumer Resin (PCR): Now Available! If you have been following the CPS Blog, and I know that you have, you may have noticed a theme in our recent posts involving plastics and different terms involving the degradability of these plastics. Another way that used plastic containers can b... |
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Bioplastics: What you need to know A common misconception is that landfill waste will biodegrade. Nothing really biodegrades in a landfill, even food, because waste gets locked away from moisture, sunlight, and oxygen ... all important elements of bio-degradation. Not only does a mater... |
Compostable Plastics: 3 Things You Need To Know Plastics continually evolve. Science progresses, the market demand changes, health advocates push for improvements and new plastics are born. Compostable plastics are a new wave of plastics ... and with that wave comes an accompanying ripple of confu... |
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Newest Video: What is PP? If you've been following our videos, you've learned that not all plastics are the same, in fact, there are hundreds of different kinds of plastic. Thanks to the Society of Plastics Industry ( SPI ), they have kindly categorized all plastics into seven... |
What's the difference? M, mm, ml, mil Say hello to mil. No, this is not what your Great Aunt Mildred's bingo friends call her, but rather a prefix. You may think that mil would be short for "million." But, if you thought that, you'd be wrong. Mil actually means "thousand," and we can thank... |
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Introducing CPS Design (Part 2) Container & Packaging Supply has added a whole NEW department with one goal in mind ... MAKING IT EASIER FOR YOU. CPS now offers in-house high quality artwork design and we call it (this is REALLY creative we promise): CPS Design . We know th... |
Introducing CPS Design CPS is now offering in house design services for clients. CPS Design, a department within the CPS Marketing division, can help you create, enhance, or edit your new or existing packaging artwork. We can guide you through the process of getting your ar... |
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Nation wide pump shortage is OVER Dispensing pumps are used for a variety of products: lotions, creams, soaps, and ... hand sanitizers. Now, I know that this shouldn't be breaking news to anyone, but guess what, there's a new strain of influenza. And it's called H1N1 or swine flu. If ... |
"What is PET?" Blooper Reel So I overestimated the "high impact and shatter resistance" capability of a PET jar of peanut butter. When I was writing the video script I thought for sure that a 15 foot drop onto a concrete warehouse floor would be a piece of cake for a PET jar of pean... |
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What is PET? Not all plastics are the same, in fact, there are hundreds of different kinds of plastic. There are seven different categories of plastic: PET , HDPE , PVC , LDPE , PP , PS and the catch-all Other. Each plastic type has what we call a resin identif... |
Tell mom she really needs it! I read a really interesting article in the November 2009 issue of Happi magazine. A study by Allen & Gerritsen , a Massachusetts-based advertising agency, says that retailers need to emphasize quality and durability rather than just outward st... |
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Ode to Lawrence and PANTONE You've heard, the phrase "all the colors of the rainbow" before. If asked to name those colors, you'd probably say: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Well that's true, if you're coloring one with a Crayola 8 pack. But as you know, there are... |
Are you a sustainable organization? The sustainability efforts of communities, governments, and companies are rising. A large retailer has developed a Sustainability Index. Its goals are to create a more transparent supply chain, drive product innovation and provide customers with inform... |
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What plastic type is best for my product? We get this question all the time: what should I put my product in? A client has a product with a special list of ingredients that may or may not require a specific plastic type , and they just need to know from us, the plastic experts, the definitive... |
Fluorination: Your bottle can take the pressure Paneling. If you don't gasp when you hear this word, you will when you know what it means. According to Terminology 101 at CPS University , paneling is the: distortion of a plastic container that occurs during aging or storage, caused by the developm... |
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Wanting to save space? Euclid proves EZ Stor Pails are the answer. I haven't met anybody—packaging aficionados or otherwise—that don't quickly grasp the simplistic beauty of the rectangular pail. Most pails (AKA buckets) are round. Round pails are wonderful. They really are. But rectangular pails are STUPENDOUS. Rea... |
The FDA on BPA (Bisphenal A) Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been involved in countless studies regarding human health. BPA is a chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics. Polycarbonate plastics are lightweight, have a high-performance rating and possess attributes of clarity, heat and e... |
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Don't forget the barcode (and everything else) There are a lot of guidelines, regulations, and even laws that stipulate what you should and shouldn't put on your product label. Let's go through some of the elements of a complete label and what should be included. Please note, there are different r... |
What is sustainable packaging and how do I do it? It's official. Sustainable packaging has matured from fad to trend, according to experts. What is sustainable packaging and how can small, medium and large businesses adapt? Fortunate for us, there is a coalition of sustainable packaging experts who c... |
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What IS the main purpose of packaging? For several weeks, we have been polling our CPS Blog readers on what they think the MAIN purpose of packaging is. Admittedly our universe for this poll is small, only 22 votes. But, even a small sampling can give us some ideas. Fifty percent believ... |
Evolution of containerandpackaging.com Please indulge me for just a moment. We were looking through some of our archives a couple of days ago and found some old screen shots of our website. We built our first iteration of the website almost 8 years ago. By today's standards it is an abomina... |
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CPS University: Packaging Expertise at your Fingertips Packaging is a big industry. Nearly everything you buy is packaged in something. Choosing the right kind of packaging for your product can be very difficult. Will my product interact poorly with this container? Is this plastic the right kind of plast... |
What are the 7 main plastic (resin) types? There are really 7 major plastic types: HDPE , LDPE , PP, PVC, PET, PS and other. Please see Plasticology 101 for how these plastics are used, what recycling streams they can enter, properties like clarity and temperature thresholds and other gre... |
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Creating the perfect package You've spent months even years developing your product and now you've got to bottle it and sell it. Here's what you need to do to create the perfect package for your product: Study the competition. Look around and see what kind of packaging your compe... |
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