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Package Design

Labels

A sample print run for a Nestlé frozen novelty wrap promoting Walt Disney?s Hercules movie displays the impression-by-impres
Feature Article
| March 31, 1998

Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter

Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.
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The label from the Just Pik?t brand emphasizes the juice is not pasteurized but rather frozen when it?s fresh
Feature Article
| March 31, 1998

Donnybrook over spring brooks (sidebar)

Putting the squeeze on fresh fruit juice
Labels of the five wines below were winners of recent competitions sponsored by the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute and
Feature Article
| March 31, 1998

A good year for wine labels

Reflecting a surge in the wine industry, wine labels take precedence at recent awards competitions.
News
| February 28, 1998

FSIS considers labeling reviews without industry representation

A food labeling trade group has expressed concern that industry representatives may be barred in the future from face-to-face meetings with federal regulators that review new labels for meat and poultry products.
News
| February 28, 1998

A wide-mouth first in PET

Shatter-resistant and lighter than glass, narrow-neck polyethylene terephthalate bottles for hot-filled beverages have enjoyed steady growth lately. But only now is a wide-mouth PET jar for hot-filled food being commercialized as Tree Top Inc.
Feature Article
| January 31, 1998

Paper pulp molders share successes, shortcomings

New molded pulp producers group meets to assess status and learn new technologies. Packagers report on applications, identify areas that need help.
Materials Product Brief
| January 31, 1998

Shrink film

Intertape Polymer Group (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has introduced Exlfilm Plus(TM). It is a polyolefin film with thickness ranges from 0.6 mil to 1.25 mil.
Although its square bottles have four panels, Nutrilite applies what it refers to as a five-panel label 9;so-called because the
Feature Article
| December 31, 1997

Servo control offers labeling latitude

To comply with FDA's labeling rules, Amway's Nutrilite Div. relies on a labeler with 12 independent servo-driven stations that permit fast changeover, high speed and improved copy-to-panel registration for square bottles of vitamins.
News
| November 30, 1997

New kids' Tylenol label

In line with recommendations from FDA's over-the-counter drug advisory committee, labels of Tylenol will begin warning parents of the danger to children from overdosages.
Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons spares no expense in creating eye-grabbing, color-saturated, richly detailed labels that allow its
Feature Article
| November 30, 1997

For Arizona, packaging is the medium and message

The secret behind a series of drop-dead gorgeous packages? Packaging decisions are made at the highest levels of a company that's willing to spend big.
A custom-built seal tester squeezes bottles through a succession of vertical rollers to expose leakers or poor seals
Feature Article
| October 31, 1997

Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules

Several unorthodoxies on the filling line make it possible for this soft, squeezable, straight-walled polypropylene container to resist paneling after hot-filling. Also new is a first-of-its-kind on-line shrink label application in a bottling plant.
Feature Article
| October 31, 1997

'Alternative' packs milk sales

In an effort to recapture market share lost to rival beverages, milk processors are turning to more contemporary containers-with strong sales results.
Since containers must be completely dry prior to shrink labeling, they pass through a series of air blowers that remove all resi
Feature Article
| October 31, 1997

Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules (sidebar)

Shrink labelers make their North American debut
Materials Product Brief
| October 31, 1997

Shrink-sleeve printing

Seal-It (Farmingdale, NY) is printing bar codes on shrink sleeves for eyebrow and eyeliner pencils, mascara, lipstick tubes and other health and beauty products.
News
| September 30, 1997

Gaining a competitive edge

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