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Air cushioning brightens Sunrise Medical's shipments

Shipments of the company’s Quickie-brand wheelchairs now arrive undamaged. Sunrise packaging personnel also appreciate the new protective cushioning.

April 4, 2007

Flexibles

Slimmer sun-block bottle is easier to grip

In Brazil, Schering-Plough has introduced Coppertone Sun Block for Kids with a flip-top closure and a ribbed, slimmer waist. These features combine to make the 15-mL bottle easier for seniors and kids with moist hands to grip and operate using one hand. The bottle improves on earlier editions by discarding polyvinyl chloride shrink film, which eliminates the costs of applying the film in production.

April 4, 2007

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Dual technologies give food carton multiple benefits

Two proprietary technologies distinguish the Kraft Nabisco Entertainment Cracker package, from Graphic Packaging International (www.graphicpkg.com). Z-flute structural reinforcement and Composipac film lamination combine to create a package that provides oxygen and moisture barriers, strength, and scuff resistance, all while delivering point-of-purchase impact.

April 4, 2007

Flexibles

Packaging environmental efficiency study released

A new 56-page study that takes a careful, measured look at environmental efficiency for various formats may be An Inconvenient Truth for packaging.

April 4, 2007

Flexibles

Reducing Total Cost Of Ownership

By switching from a PLC-based controls architecture to a functionally integrated controller, Talon builds a simpler machine that costs less to build and to maintain.

April 3, 2007

Flexibles

Salsas in 48-oz bottle twin-packs

In February 2007, San Antonio Farms, San Antonio, TX, began club-store marketing of double-packs of salsas in 48-oz-volume, six-layer PP/EVOH barrier jugs with .015” wall thickness and 82-g empty-bottle weight. Shelf life of the bottled salsa is 12 months. Average retail price of the salsa twin-packs is between $5.00 and $6.00.

April 3, 2007

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Design firm bags new Pringles Select packaging

Say the word “Pringles,” and the image of a saddle-shape chip in a cylindrical container comes to mind. But when LPK (www.lpk.com), the design agency for Procter & Gamble’s Pringles’ brand, came up with a design for the company’s new Pringles Select gourmet potato chips, the firm dropped the cylindrical can in favor of a block-bottom pouch.

April 3, 2007

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Salmon jerky pack serves Iraq and Afghanistan

Fledgling wild salmon product manufacturing company Alaska Spirit LLC, Kodiak, AK, with assistance from the University of Alaska Fisheries Industrial Technology Center pilot plant, has developed Kodiak SOLSTIX™ wild salmon jerky, vacuum-packed in multi-layer film. Designed as “pocket protein” for hikers, climbers, other sports enthusiasts, and vending machine sales, the product currently is being marketed to several small regional retail outlets. It’s packaged in 0.7-oz (2” x 6” package dimensions), three-count jerky stick packs. Average retail price is $1.99 per package.

April 3, 2007

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Plastic bags provide looks, strength for horsefeed

TizWhiz horsefeed is corralled into durable, rain-repellent woven OPP bags that replace paper bags.

March 23, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Best practices for promotional item placement on packaging

Learn step-by-step how to increase the placement accuracy for literature, coupons or other items in this white paper from Minnesota Automation Products, Graphic Packaging Intl., Packaging Machinery Div.

March 23, 2007

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

The wrap-up: Marshmallows are hard...to package

Can you figure it out why that is before I did?

March 20, 2007

Flexibles

Design firm bags new Pringles Select packaging

Gourmet version in four flavors drops the composite can in favor of a block-bottom pouch.

March 20, 2007