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Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

The New Resina Corp. (Brooklyn, NY): Mr. Andrew May, vp manufacturing & sales.

May 31, 1995

Sustainability

New News

FTC to review green marketing guidelines The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will review its green marketing guidelines beginning in July and expects to issue changes early in 1996.

May 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

High-performance PEN is picking up steam

Amoco Chemical (Chicago, IL) used the Bev-Pak Americas '95 conference to identify two new bottles containing polyethylene naphthalate, or PEN (see PW, November '94, p.

May 31, 1995

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling systems

"Datapply Solutions for Label Printing and Applying" is a six-page brochure from Avery Dennison, Soabar Sys-tems Div. (Philadelphia, PA), describing the Dat-apply 900 and D-700 series of Soabar® print/apply labeling systems.

April 30, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Arcadia takes major step in production

Juice and drink bottler upgrades case packing for high output, even outstripping what its palletizer can handle. A new palletizer is on the list; so is improved bottle feeding.

April 30, 1995

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tom's finds that 'less, low and no' describe new snacks

What may be the first complete line of salty snack foods in low- and no-fat versions is now debuting from Tom's Foods. Known as a regional manufacturer, Tom's is now taking the lead in package design.

April 30, 1995

Cartoning

Equipment made for the shade

Rising demand for its Sun-Gard solar control window film made this Florida firm take a hard look at its packaging operation. Custom-built cartoning and case packing equipment was the answer.

April 30, 1995

Converting equipment

Clairol specs PCR plastic and paperboard

Substantial percentages of recycled post-consumer material are being used in the packaging of two new product lines from New York, NY-based Clairol.

April 30, 1995

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Stroh launches special carton, grip bottle

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II and salute its veterans, Detroit-based Stroh Brewery will market its Schlitz beer from May to October in two cartons with nostalgic designs.

April 30, 1995

Closures

Custom bottles boost promotion

Custom packaging played a key role in the success of a recent hair-care product promotion by Matrix® Essentials of Solon, OH. The firm's Vavoom(TM) and Systeme Biolage® professional salon hair-care product lines were offered in a special 250-mL promotional size.

April 30, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Will UnPET expand supply of RPET?

Packagers worrying about the availability of recycled polyethylene terephthalate resin will likely be encouraged by the announcement last month that a new process for recycling post-consumer PET has been developed by United Resource Recovery Corp.

April 30, 1995

Closures

FDA revises standards for single-serve dairy containers

It may seem like too little and too late, but the Food and Drug Administration recently issued its 1993 revision of "Standards for the Fabrication of Single Service Containers and Closures for Milk and Milk Products." Federal and state regulatory inspectors use these standards as the basis for inspecting plants manufacturing dairy packaging.

April 30, 1995