Archive for the ‘Openings and Closures’ Category

Packaging extreme; ラムネ Ramune 200 ml bottle

ラムネ The Ramune 200 ml bottle is one of the few Codd-neck bottles still on the market. This design takes its name from its designer, Hiram Codd, who designed and patented it in 1872. Could such a dated design still be relevant in the market? Would it stand today’s demands of package usability? These are […]

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ビタミンレモン C1000 Vitamin Lemon 180g Pouch

Pouches and stand-up pouches are very prevalent in Asia. While the C1000 Vitamin Lemon from House Wellness is lacking the bottom panel to make it truly a stand-up pouch by definition, the jello-like product inside provides sufficient rigidity for the package to stand up.

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ファイブミニ Fibe-Mini 100 ml (pull-tab)

Pull-tab bottle openings have been around for a long time. We see them making an occasional resurgence, showing up on unusual applications like beer bottles. Just a few years back, Tuborg was pitching this type of opening as a cool innovation in the European beer market. The application of a pull-tab opening on Otsuka’s 100 […]

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Tamper proofing closures

There are two methods of implementing tamper prevention devices on food packaging. One method is to provide evidence when the package barrier is broken. The other method is to tamper proof the package. While these two methods may seem similar, they are indeed quite different.

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The grandfather of closures, cork, is under challenge

The Wall Street Journal has an article on plastic cork closures in today’s edition. There are some rather interesting industry facts that are revealed in the article. Cork was first used as a bottle closure by Dom Perignon in the late 1600s. Natural cork still has a 69% market share today, but that market share […]

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