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New year queries: Are you euro conversant? Are you Y2K compliant?

Tick...tick...tick...A quickie quiz to open the new year. A euro is: A. The hood ornament of a German sports car.

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B. A medieval musical notation.

C. The child of ECU.

Y2K is:

A. A Japanese zipper manufacturer.

B. A cure for baldness.

C. A moment in time likely to arrive while you're asleep.

Tick...tick...tick...Time's up.

The New Year arrived some days ago and with it, a market of changes, challenges and questions for packaging professionals. Technologies and movements that caught our attention in 1998 will shape the packaging world (and Packaging World) in 1999.

A quick, far-from-complete summary of technology and market developments and issues from last year that will shape this year's package manufacturing and marketing strategies would have to include:

* Barrier-enriched plastic containers capable of preserving peak product quality over extended periods of time;

* Situation-responsive packaging systems;

* "New age" performance-enhanced, application-specific materials;

* Product processing's contributions in supporting and extending packaging performance;

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