Weekly Digest: Veritiv offers sugar-cane based paperboard

20 Jul 2018 --- This week in packaging, Kalas Packaging has introduced an online personalized gift bag and bottle box service for consumers, Acqua Vitasnella, a brand belonging to Ferrarelle SpA has launched its “Le Linfe” range, and Veritiv Corporation now offers a paperboard-based packaging option made with 100 percent sugarcane bagasse fibers. Menasha Packaging Company, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, has announced a new President.

In brief: Launches and certifications
Kalas Packaging, UK-based packaging converter, has introduced an online personalized gift bag and bottle box service for consumers, with its recently installed digital folding carton printing line, featuring an HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press integrated with a TRESU iCoat 30000 flexo coater. On the new one-stop web-to-print service, Vanilla Reindeer, consumers may order premium-quality bottle cartons and rope-handled bags, in a wide range of format sizes, for numerous special occasions, in addition to matching greetings cards.

Acqua Vitasnella, a brand belonging to Ferrarelle SpA has launched its “Le Linfe” range, three sugar-free and zero-calorie functional waters with birch sap and coconut water. With a focus on the female consumer audience, the brand features artwork that sinuously runs down the bottle, symbolizing the water entering the body and excess liquids and toxins being eliminated. The bottle has a full-sleeve with a simple and effective iconographic style that highlights the plus points of each variant, clearly showing the main ingredient and its benefits.

Veritiv Corporation now offers a paperboard-based packaging option made with 100 percent sugarcane bagasse fibers, an annually renewable, tree-free fiber source that is both recyclable and compostable. Veritiv teamed up with Carvajal Pulp and Paper to market Earth Pact paperboard. 

In brief: Appointments & retirements
Menasha Packaging Company, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, has announced that it has named Michael D. Riegsecker as its new president, effective September 1, 2018. Riegsecker previously was chief operating officer of Menasha Packaging. He joined the company in 1992 and will succeed Michael K. Waite, who recently announced his retirement as president of Menasha Packaging Company.

In brief: Miscellaneous
A letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reminded all Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act licensees that fresh produce irradiated or fumigated.