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The 5 best packaging advancements of September We’ve gathered together the Top 5 articles of last month in this group photo of what advancements gained the most attention. Throwback’ green materials, mass-customized cans, ‘cannabusinesses’ and pouches and a packaging fable all drew high interest from the packaging community over the past month. The seasonal changeover on September 23 from summer to fall was seamlessly completed again this year as was the monthly change to October—a pa...

Owner of the bay area canyon construction, that means nothing is missing, and, therefore, no lost time and no expensive delays. >> it definitely results in a savings in the cost. time is money in contracting. >> what were talking about is mass customization and i would say what were doing in the bathroom is not dissimilar from what dell does with pcs. dell basically lets you define your pc configuration, and they make it. they have parts on the shelf. they aaggragate and ship i want to you withi...

The unique business model calls for only raw materials. no actual products until someone places an order. >> what we decided to do is kind of combine the best aspects of an ebay market place and what dell was doing at the time that was compelling, mass customization for electronics. we thought if we can create a market place where users can design products and put them up for sale, if we can figure out how to make these products on demand, thats cool. >> i thought, oh, my gosh, what am i doing? ...

>> reporter: its a formula that served jeff well. he launched the website in 2005 with his father and brother. he says zazzle is bringing in more than $100 million a year in revenue. zazzle users create 150,000 new products every day. literally every second new designs are being uploaded to the website. from there the machines take over, building that product exactly to your specification. the unique business model calls for only raw materials. no actual products until someone place answer order...