| Unwrapping Packaging |
Harold Bevis: Packaging's greatest challenge
Harold Bevis, chairman and CEO of food and medical packaging converter Prolamina Corp., answers the question from PN reporter Dan Hockensmith during a recent interview at the firm's plant in Neenah, Wis. As the former CEO of Pliant Corp., Bevis has studied the marketplace from the film manufacturing and converting sides. Prolamina is based in Lake Forest, Ill. (2:21).
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Flexibility: Unilever's Myra Onesimus
Myra Onesimus is a Chicago-based senior packaging engineer responsible for packaging development activities for Unilever's Lipton, Knorr, and Hellmann's brands. At the June 2011 Global Pouch Forum in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., she discussed with PN reporter Dan Hockensmith what Unilever is looking for in flexible packaging and the long-term prospects for flexible vs. rigid packaging (1:43).
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Collaborations: DuPont's Yasmin Siddiqi
As DuPont's global marketing director for packaging and consumer, Yasmin Siddiqi helps make designers' visions for packaging work with manufacturing reality. At the Package Design & Development Seminar, held March 1-3, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla., she discussed with PN reporter Dan Hockensmith how collaboration works best from the materials supplier's perspective, and laying groundwork for win-win outcomes (:43).
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Mike Redman: BPA fears unfounded
Some food and beverage industry observers predict that 2011 will be the year that U.S. regulatory agencies try to pass a sweeping health and safety agenda. At the recent Packaging Conference in Las Vegas, Mike Redman, director of the American Beverage Association, spoke out against the decision by some manufacturers and retailers to abandon the use of bisphenol A in plastic containers (:54).
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John Maddox: Bullish on PET
Recent volatility in PET pricing had manufacturing, retail and sales executives talking at The Packaging Conference, held Feb. 7-9, 2011, in Las Vegas. Consultant John Maddox, president of SBA-CCI Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla., remains bullish about PET for beverage packaging -- and says price increases are good news for retailers and manufacturers, even if they're a headache for resin buyers (1:24).
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| Conversations About China |
| Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Group Design
Plastics News caught up with Adrian van Hooydonk, senior vice president BMW Group Design, before his Dec. 2 speech at Hong Kong's Business of Design Week.
In the first clip, running 2:36, he talks about how the push for ‘’zero emission mobility’’ means more plastics and other lightweight materials, and he discusses why he likes working in those materials because of the design flexibility they provide.
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| Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Group Design
In the second clip, running 2:38, van Hooydonk talks about BMW’s development of mass production technologies for CFRP, which the company considers a key advancement, and he gives some advice to the plastics industry on developments the car maker would like to see for in-mold technologies.
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| Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Group Design
In the final clip, running 4:02, he talks about the growing importance of the China market, and BMW’s plan to set up its first design studio there next year. That studio will be part of its DesignworksUSA Los Angeles-based subsidiary, which also does work for other companies and other industries.
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Ambassador Huntsman on IP rights in China
Plastics News reports from a June 2010 forum on intellectual property issues sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shenzhen, China. In this audio clip, U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. responds to a question from PN about comments made at the event by one American manufacturer that planned to withdraw its research and development work from Shenzhen over IP concerns (2:45).
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| Plastics Hall of Fame |
Hall of Fame conversation: Robert Swain
Plastics Hall of Famer Robert Swain sat down at his home in East China, Mich., with senior reporter Bill Bregar to talk about the importance of color and contrast ratio. "Color probably has the greatest value of any component in a product [a client] is evaluating," Swain said. (4:55)
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Hall of Fame conversation: Don Witenhafer
Don Witenhafer, a 2009 inductee of the Plastics Hall of Fame, told senior reporter Bill Bregar about his work to reduce cancer rates in PVC workers. In an interview at his home in College Station, Texas, Witenhafer also lamented a loss of research and development across U.S. industry. (2:46)
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Hall of Fame conversation: Ralph Noble
Ralph Noble, a 2009 member of the Plastics Hall of Fame, discusses being the first non-American president of the Society of Plastics Engineers with senior reporter Bill Bregar. "I had a very good relationship with a lot of members of SPE ... We had a good time together," said Noble, of Hudson, Quebec. (3:25)
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Hall of Fame conversation: Robert Barr
Robert Barr, member of the Plastics Hall of Fame class of 2009, spoke with Plastics News senior reporter Bill Bregar about screw design in the 1960s and his early experiences in the plastics industry. "You could almost do no wrong -- it was an exciting time," Barr said. (2:50)
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Hall of Fame conversation: James Hendry
James Hendry, a 2009 inductee into the Plastics Hall of Fame, spoke with senior reporter Bill Bregar about the work he did during World War II. At his home in Brookesvile, Fla., Hendry said postwar, plastics grew with help from German and Japanese engineers. (4:40)
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