Awards for excellence

Congratulations are in order to TricorBraun, which announced in a press release Feb. 15 that the company took home two graphic design awards for packaging. 

TricorBraun Design and Engineering, a division of TricorBraun situated in Chicago, is "one of North America's largest providers of jars, bottles and other rigid packaging components," teamed up with Hoppes, a company which manufactures gun cleaning products to design packaging for its newest product, for which TricorBraun received one award.

The other, was awarded for TricorBraun's design work for a sake brewer, SakeOne. The brewing company wanted a bottle that would set itself apart from competition and cost less than its existing bottle. TricorBraun's design featured a sleek black design with yellow and white lettering.

Sleek and simple design garners attention, not to mention awards.

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.