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Dispensing with food quality concerns

Large, 7.5-L stand-up pouches for condiments rely on unique closures that help Van Dijk Food Products' Dutch foodservice customers meet HACCP quality standards.

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Apple and tortilla packs break the foodservice routine

Fresh, sliced apples for school foodservice customers and tortillas for hotel and restaurant kitchens both come in packages that look like they were lifted from a retail setting.

June 30, 1998

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Supplier news: International agreements

Duralam, Inc. (Appleton, WI) and Sudpack Holding GmbH (Erlenmoos, Germany) announce the organization of Sudpack USA, Inc. (Appleton, WI), a joint venture formed to market high-barrier, coextruded forming film and sheet for thermoforming, vacuum forming and modified atmosphere packaging applications.

June 30, 1998

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

SKC, Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) is opening what it says will become the largest polyester film plant in the world in Covington, GA. The first mfg.

June 30, 1998

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Brewers tap holographic effects

Two brewers are adding holographic effects to their packaging to entice consumers at retail: Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, WI, has redesigned its Magnum malt liquor to include a label with a psuedo-holographic look, and Coors Brewing Co., Golden, CO, is launching a summer promotion for Coors Light that incorporates holographic packaging.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

UCB Films' (Smyrna, GA) Tecumseh, KS, cellophane plant has reached targeted cellophane production of 26 million lb/yr, after having been restarted last September following a one-year shutdown and change of ownership.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

New England Extrusion, Inc. (Turners Falls, MA) in June officially opened a 32ꯠ sq' film mfg. facility in Milton, WI.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

AET Films (New Castle, DE) has opened Tenter III, described by the company as the world's first 10-meter OPP film line. The 93ꯠ sq' Terre Haute, IN, facility began production in March, 1998.

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Supplier news: International agreements

American Biaxis, Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) has been formally established as a joint venture between Nichimen Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and Winpak Ltd.

June 30, 1998

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Fresh French soup takes shrink-film label

Boldly decorated and full bodied, shrink-film labels have captured beverage marketers in a big way. Now Soup Ideale, a soup manufacturer in Saint Laurent, Blangy, France, is using a shrink-film label for 1-L bottles of fresh, refrigerated soup in high-density polyethylene bottles.

June 30, 1998

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Have you ever been Gatorade Experienced?

Designed by the same firm that gave us the ergonomically correct computer mouse, the latest bottle from Quaker Oats' Gatorade Co. is known as the Ergonomically Designed Gatorade Experience, or E.D.G.E.

June 30, 1998

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

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Vertical form/fill/seal system

Triangle Package Machinery's (Chicago, IL) Advantage CM vertical f/f/s system is designed for minimal maintenance. Its cross-seal jaw drive uses torsional couplings instead of sliding shafts, bushings, cams, springs and other linkage.

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

L-sealer

The Model 360 automatic in-line shrink wrap L-sealer from Indaseal (Columbus, IN) is designed with simplicity and reliability in mind. PLC-driven machine has a continuous-infeed feature.

May 31, 1998