Introducing CPS Design

CPS is now offering in house design services for clients. CPS Design, a department within the CPS Marketing division, can help you create, enhance, or edit your new or existing packaging artwork.

Where did all the pumps go? Nation-wide pump shortage is over

Dispensing pumps are used for a variety of products: lotions, creams, soaps, and ... hand sanitizers. Now, I know that this shouldn't be breaking news to anyone, but guess what, there's a new strain of influenza. And it's called H1N1 or swine flu. If you haven't heard about H1N1, then I don't know that this article is going to be of much interest to you ... but anyone in the market for dispensing pumps might find this interesting:

There has been a nation wide shortage of dispensing pumps.

The "What Is" Plastics Series: PET Bloopers

So I overestimated the "high impact and shatter resistance" capability of a PET jar of peanut butter. When I was writing the video script I thought for sure that a 15 foot drop onto a concrete warehouse floor would be a piece of cake for a PET jar of peanut butter ... boy was I wrong.

The "What Is" Plastics Series: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

Not all plastics are the same, in fact, there are hundreds of different kinds of plastic. There are seven different categories of plastic: PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS and the catch-all Other. Each plastic type has what we call a resin identification code on it. (Resin is just another word for "type-of-plastic.")