PKSC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rjr Nabisco, Polypropylene, Tamper-Evident Technology
3 Oct 2016
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A protective unit for storing or shipping a commodity too limiting. Coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, distribution, storage, retailing and use of goods still doesn"t cover it well. How the clemson packaging program defines it: It is a field that involves the use of materials, methods and machinery to develop and produce the packages that protect and preserve a product, help market the product and instruct the consumer in its proper use . Consider what life was like in ancient days. Woven grass baskets, shells, wooden bowls, animal hides and skins. Earliest packages were from natural sources: sea shell, coconut shell, Egyptians learned to blow and cast glass (p. 5 fig. 1500 cork stopper used for bottles such as wine. 1868 john hyatt- patent for celluloid, leading to dev. of cellulose, first plastic . 1877 quaker oats first used the quaker man to represent their product. 1897 first major use of paperboard for national biscuit company uneeda .
