Coding, Printing & Labeling

A winning combination

A unique label construction for an on-pack game piece provides both security and low cost for the shaver division of BIC Corp.

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Flexible packaging

Packaging keeps evolving...from able, to active, to anticipating

Are you evolved?

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Flexibles

Home meal replacements stay hot (sidebar)

Home-delivered HMRs

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

Supplier news: International agreements

Profile Packaging (Sarasota, FL) and MaSipack USA (San Bernado, Brazil) have signed an exclusive marketing agreement to sell MaSipack vf/f/s machine systems into the NAFTA trading region in North America.

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Flexibles

Employee retention through TLC

Want to keep packaging professionals from seeking opportunities elsewhere? Demonstrate clearly how much you want them in your 'career tent.'

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Jar line is a royal flush (sidebar)

Shrink bander, jar labeler contribute to line speed, ease

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Secondary Packaging

Plastic packs let Jobe's grow outdoors

Easy Gardener introduces a stand-up pouch and overwrapped "cookie pack" for its outdoor plant, tree and garden fertilizers. Replacing paperboard cartons, the plastic packs withstand moisture in flourishing outdoor lawn-and-garden centers.

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Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Mobil Corp. (Pittsford, NY) and Hoechst (Greer, SC) will not proceed with the proposed joint venture to combine their OPP flexible films businesses.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Veryfine grabs for added sales with new bottles

The latest hot-filled plastic bottle from Veryfine has a unique grip molded into the sidewalls just above the top of the colorful full-wrap film label.

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Flexibles

New wrap powers energy bar

A new wrapper is flexing its muscle by adding functionality and informative graphics for PowerBar® Performance(TM) energy bars. Launched in July, the wrapper represents the first redesign for Berkeley, CA-based PowerBar® Inc.

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Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

UCB Films (Wigton, Cumbria, U.K.) will adopt the 'Propafilm' brand name for all its BOPP grades other than those specifically devised for label facestock and release liners, replacing the 'Rayopp' name formerly used by UCB.

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Flexible packaging

P&G tests snacks in stand-up, resealable pouches

Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has begun test-marketing Eagle-brand snack foods in stand-up pouches with zipper reclosures. The test, which began in August, is only in Portland, ME.

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Conveying & accumulation

Cellulose film is a star

Candy maker Bonbons Napoleon NV has started packaging its sweets in UCB Films' (Smynra, GA) Star-Twist(TM) 315 XC.

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