Aerosol packaging consultant Ian Gecker retires
Ian Gecker, of aerosol packaging consultancy Ian Gecker & Associates, LLC, is retiring after 50 years in the aerosol industry. Gecker is a Past President of the Western Aerosol Information Bureau (WAIB), served on its …
Utah set to ban aerosols with high hydrocarbon concentrations
By PAUL FOY, Associated Press A board of state regulators adopted a set of comprehensive plans Wednesday to cut chronic air pollution along the heavily populated urban corridor of northern Utah. The plans won't bring relief for years, …
EAA announces Video Education Challenge
Dennis Smith Director Sales & Packaging at Precise Packaging has announced the Eastern Aerosol Association (EAA) Video Education Challenge. The EAA is in the process of creating an awesome new Aerosol 101 taking place on April …
CARB and The Dept. of Toxic Substance Control
CARB The California Air Resources Board (CARB) continues their work on Consumer Products. On Oct. 23, the CARB research division held its first meeting on the Low Vapor Pressure (LVP) Research Study Contracts to be conducted …
GHS is neither Global nor Harmonized
A common joke is that the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) is neither Global nor Harmonized. It is not harmonized due to the implementation differences in many countries. It is not global because it has yet …
Baseline Penalties Increase
In the July 2013 issue of Spray, I detailed the increase in minimum and maximum civil penalties published in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) final rulemaking, HM-258, on …
Surface anomalies in spray packaging materials and their relationship to corrosion.
The surfaces of spray package materials are far from perfect. The metal-making process, the processes used to fabricate metal containers, coating application processes and the foil lamination formation process often produce surface anomalies that could …
CCL Industries to permanently close Canadian aerosol manufacturing plant
CCL Industries Inc. announced that it plans to permanently close its Canadian aerosol manufacturing operation commencing in the first half of 2014 and completing no later than mid-2015. Geoffrey T. Martin, President & CEO of …
Ball to Consolidate North American Aerosol Can and End Capacity
Ball Corporation announced that it will cease production at the company's Danville, Ill., steel aerosol packaging manufacturing plant during the second half of 2014. Ball will redeploy the plant's assets to other existing company facilities …
Cobra Plastics hires Director of New Business Development
Cobra Plastics Inc. has announced Martin (Marty) Binder as the Director, New Business Development. Marty has thirty years of executive, sales, marketing and general management experience in the consumer packaging industry including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, …