2004-12-21 04:00:00 PDT Fernley, Nev.-- An egg timer and two country music albums, one of hundreds of thousands of orders shipped daily by Amazon.com during the holidays, took another step toward ...

Have you ever received a package with an order that is tiny compared to its shipping box? Amazon (AMZN) designed the CartonWrap 1000, or the CW 1000, to tackle this problem. Yahoo Finance’s Allie ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Earlier this month, the Advance took a look at the excessive packaging that comes along with online purchases. This week, Amazon announced that it will make changes to its ...

One of those solutions is an automated machine that builds padded boxes that are made-to-fit with each item. Products roll down a belt and onto the cardboard. Glue is rolled onto the cardboard before ...

Amazon claims four guiding principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Through the company’s focus ...

Amazon says it has hit another milestone in reducing its use of plastic packaging, eliminating 95 percent of plastic air pillow filler in its shipments. Instead, it is installing equipment to use ...

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Earlier this month, the Advance took a look at the excessive packaging that comes along with online purchases. This week, Amazon announced that it will make changes to its ...