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Compadre Drives Sustainability in Package Testing Industry through Partnership with Austin Zoo

morgan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:24:53 +0100

What happens when a company wants to ship pallets loaded with 1,200 pounds of new chicken product into Sam’s Club? First, they've got to get the packaging system tested. Specifically, they have to pass a new testing process developed by the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) calRead More...

Compadre Expands Sustainable Packaging Options with Coconut Fiber-Based Technology

morgan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:23:46 +0100

Austin, Texas - July 27 2010 -- Compadre, an Austin-based packaging design and engineering company, announces a collaboration with Whole Tree, Inc., an innovative green materials company founded by researchers at Baylor University. Together, the companies will develop packaging applications using Whole Tree’s composite material made in part from coconut fiber. The goal of the collaboration between Whole Tree and Compadre is to develop innovative, sustainable packaging materials that allRead More...

ISTA Project 3J Adopted by Sam's Club

morgan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:21:03 +0100

ISTA Project 3J, the culmination of the Sam’s Club program (see recent issues of i-News and ISTA Views for complete information) has now been formally adopted by Sam’s Club. For several years, Sam’s has been referencing modified versions of ISTA Procedures 3E and 3A for items requiring distribution testing. Those references have now been replaced by ISTA 3J. It will take a few weeks for this change to be added to various Sam’s Club documents and integrated into the SamRead More...

Start up of Wild Bunch

Administrator — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:48 +0100

Last week we rolled a new dimension to our design center team which we call the Wild Bunch. They are a diverse group of very creative people who are on-call to form focus group teams. They come from all backgrounds: graphic design, art, photography, ceramics, modeling, engineering, marketing, and advertising. We see this as a great way to enable Compadre’s culture of relentlessly pursuing a different way.