Hi-Cone Supplies Multipack Carriers for More Than One Million Cans of Emergency Drinking Water for the areas hit by Hurricane Sandy.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Hi-Cone, the leading supplier of plastic multipacks, learned one of its longtime customers, Anheuser-Busch, was using its Cartersville, Georgia Brewery to package 44,000 cases of emergency drinking water – or 1,056,000 cans – for residents impacted by the devastation. Knowing the line was equipped with 6-pack carriers, Hi-Cone stepped in to donate the 6-pack carriers to help distribute the water to the American Red Cross and other local disaster relief organizations.
The new facility in Bogotá will provide multipack carriers directly to bottling plants throughout Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Hi-Cone’s new 3,000 plus square meter manufacturing facility will be able to produce several hundred million carriers with multiple options such as labeling and hot stamping, bringing the sustainable benefits of Hi-Cone multipacks locally to the market.
Hi-Cone’s booth is very busy as store brands learn the advantages of providing their product in the multipackaging used by major brands.
As a leading supplier of plastic-based multipackaging systems for global beer, soft drink, pharmaceutical and general consumer products industries, Hi-Cone is proven performer for multipackaging over a wide variety of product categories that are rapidly growing for Store Brands around the world. We look forward to working with progressive Store Brands and Private Labels at PLMA 2012 as they expand their packaging from traditional multipacks to more sustainable, minimal, flexible Hi-Cone packaging.
Hi-Cones leading-edge design team recently designed two removable Halloween-themed wristbands into the Hi-Cone carrier for Fanta’s 8-pack of 7.5-oz. cans.
The Halloween wristbands proved to be an attention-getting, fun addition to the shelf pack and proved that minimal packaging can still have maximum impact.
What record did Hi-Cone break this year? A record number of 5,546 items were collected.
Over the past 5 years, Hi-Cone has collected over 46,500 items and over 800 pounds of debris. The recovered items included a cell phone and a credit card (each of which was returned to its owner), a toilet seat, a bag of drugs, and a hair piece (none of which was returned to its owners).
Less than 200 companies are invited to the Expo and Hi-Cone has been honored with this selection for the past seven years, since its inaugural 2005 Expo.
Hi-Cone plastic-ring based packaging systems are used by major beverage brands found on the retailer’s shelves. Hi-Cone products have long been a sustainable choice in multi-packing and characteristically
demonstrate substantial score improvements on Walmart’s Packaging Scorecard.
One of Central Europe’s leading retailers chose Hi-Cone as a partner in to introduce multipacks of Mixery into the German convenience chain market place
When first introduced to Hi-Cone, Lekkerland was immediately enthusiastic about the key features of minimal packaging and showing the primary beverage container of the can or bottle. These fit well with Lekkerland’s image of “ease, convenience and simplicity”. Additionally, Lekkerland finds that Hi-Cone’s promotional panel multipack ideally suits the promotional activities, which they conduct on a regular basis, without adding unacceptable levels of secondary packaging for the convenience stores and their customers to recycle.
Hi-Cone’s red ColorPak® carrier was used on Coca-Cola®’s first ever white cans to reinforce the Coke red branding and provide an eye grabbing contrast for consumers.
The Coke Arctic Home promotion, which featured an image of a mother polar bear and her cubs on the side, captured national attention. Everyone carried the story of the first ever Coke white cans, including Time, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Huffington Post, and multitudes of bloggers. The red ColorPak carrier added great contrast to the look and kept the Coke’s traditional red brand color a presence on the multipacks.
In the Alliance for the Great Lakes Annual Report, Hi-Cone is featured in a “Beach Adopter Spotlight” for its commitment to the protection of wildlife.
The Alliance for the Great Lakes presents Hi-Cone as an example of how a company with a strong commitment to the environment can make changes through innovations to help ensure the protection of wildlife. When the issue of animal entanglement came to the fore in the 1980’s when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration created its Marine Debris Program, Hi-Cone developed a new photodegradable formula for their plastic that quickly becomes brittle and breaks apart when exposed to sunlight. Statistics from the Ocean Conservancy show only 146 animal entanglements from six-packs over the last 25 years, representing less than 1 percent of the shoreline wildlife entanglements that have been documented over hundreds of thousands of miles of shoreline.
New at this year's CBC this was the first annual “Canny Awards," a competition honoring the craft beer industry's unique and distinctive graphics
The best can graphics in the craft beer industry were on display at the 2012 CBC as part of the first annual “Canny Awards," bringing together best of the high-quality graphics featured on craft beer in cans. During this inaugural competition, 83 craft breweries submitted 231 entries in seven categories. Independent judges awarded an overall can design trophy to the top three designs, as well as first-place awards in each of the seven categories. Awards presented during the Craft Brewers Conference were as follows: (see detailed PDF)
The Heineken QR code on Hi-Cone Promotional Panel Multipacks links to exciting, new content on the Sagres brand in Portugal.
The marketing team of Heineken Groups leading Portuguese beer brand Sagres, recognize the benefits of Hi-Cones Promotional Panel multipacks, choosing them to be a major part of their innovative 2012 brand awareness campaign, placing QR Codes with unique website contents on all multipacks.
Hi-Cone proudly announces a NEW development to our existing excellent credentials of sustainable advantages in energy, greenhouse gases, and solid waste.
The Hi-Cone manufacturing plants in Europe, located in Mallow (Cork) Ireland and La Garriga (Barcelona) Spain, are both committed to using Green Energy. The local power supply providers have agreed with Hi-Cone that energy, equivalent to the total annual quantity used by each of the plants, will be generated or purchased from certified renewable energy sources and high efficiency cogeneration plants which is marketed under the name "Green Energy".
Qualcomm has recycled 2.86 tons of 6-pack rings. That’s equal to 713,900 rings, and enough to stretch for 93 miles.
It all started with staff engineer Frank Merrow of Qualcomm when he asked the administrative clerk in charge of stocking the conference and break rooms to start saving the rings for his son’s Cub Scout pack. Word spread fast about how to recycle the rings. Soon, Frank was getting boxes of rings from all over Qualcomm. The rings are shipped free of cost to Hi-Cone for recycling.
Japan’s Daily Industrial Newspaper sought an interview with Steve Henn, Group, who directs Hi-Cone worldwide, to discuss the expansion plans in the Japan marketplace.
Hi-Cone is well known globally but not yet in Japan. In this interview Steve Henn talks about the sustainable advantages Hi-Cone packaging as well as the enthusiatic reception of the carrier of the carrier at the Japan ECO.
The perfect venue to introduce Japan to the advantages of minimal, sustainable, Hi-Cone multipack carriers was at the Tokyo environmental exhibition, Eco-Products 2011.
Hi-Cone carrier received much attention among more than 180,000 business people and consumers interested in environmental issues. Some environmental enthusiasts were surprised to learn about the photodegradability of the carriers, which was shown prominently in a hands-on display.
The launch of Hi-Cone also captured the interest of the largest newspaper in Japan, Nikkei Shinbun. Hi-Cone's launch was heralded in an article in Nikkei Shinbun headlined: “Packaging material company is coming into Japanese market.”
