Child-proof

MeadWestvaco (MWV), packaging-biz giant is working alongside professionals in the pharmaceutical industry to create packaging that is child-resistant, a partnership that's been ongoing for years.

Reason behind the partnership was the fact that too many children (more than 500,000) five and under suffer poisoning from medication. MWV included in a press release that "more than 60,000 end up in the emergency room after ingesting unsecured medications."

MWV is promising to tailor its packaging solutions to satisfy each of its customers' needs. While products will be child-proof, MWV is working toward making the products adult-friendly. Personally, I'm not a fan of the push-twist caps on Tylenol/Advil bottles.

But the purpose of the initiative is to save lives, first and foremost.

BOXXing out the competition

There's a new machine in town, and it's taking human jobs. Transformers are actually taking over.

Canadian Packaging reported that Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC, based in Miami, FL, has a new machine that it (Eagle Packaging) hopes will decrease operators' carbon footprints.

The new machine called BOXXER is an automated system that will build cases and place products in them. Which will negate the purpose of having hardly any human presence in a factory that does such thing.

According to Canadian Packaging, BOXXER will "help increase productivity and lower labor costs."

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