Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Green Conference/Expo

Green Team,

Today I attended a Green Conference through Grainger in Morton Grove, Illinois.  There were several companies on hand giving presentations on ways to improve sustainability and make our company "greener."  It was very beneficial and a lot of the information that I gathered could be helpful to our team.  I have some informational packets etc. that I can pass around on the 29th at our next meeting.  See you all then.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Website devoted to green packaging

This looks to be worth bookmarking...

http://www.greenerpackage.com/

The website appears to be well-visited and frequently updated.

Natralock Demo

Take a look at this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuEfRWGHc8U

It's a demo of Meadwestvaco's new packaging system called Natralock, which is a clamshell alternative that uses a special laminated paperboard with smaller volume of thermoformed material. The demo is pretty funny because the guy fumbles around to open the package, but the product itself is pretty compelling. I think MWV is on to something here. I wonder to what extent they have patent protection.

Dean