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804/281-2000
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Flexible packaging
Web of confusion
EPA’s proposed clean air standard is likely to cost packagers, one way or another, in add-on costs by manufacturers or converters.
Primary packaging
Four-side-sealer homers for Clean Team
Clean Team, a San Diego maker of cleaning card products, speeds changeovers and lowers labor costs with an automated sealer. Pitched area allows for easy filling of liquid cleaning solution into the package.
Flexible packaging
From gabletop to plastic
Both Nestlé USA and Hershey Foods used the Food Marketing Institute 2001 show as a platform to promote plastic containers that replace gabletop cartons.
Primary packaging
Putting a wrap on enhanced productivity
A new shrink wrapping system has doubled packaging speed and cut downtime in half at this Arizona maker of adhesive lettering.
Materials & containers
Specialty drinks get old look
As the new year begins, Hansen's Beverage Co. looks to the past with its new line of 'signature' sodas. They're packaged in brown glass bottles with crown closures and full-body shrink labels that evoke a feeling of simpler times.
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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) has reached an agreement to acquire Reynolds Metals Co. (Richmond, VA) for more than $4 billion, a price only slightly higher than the Alcoa's original hostile bid.
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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) has tendered a cash offer for all outstanding shares of Reynolds Metals Co. (Richmond, VA) at a price of $65 per share.
Flexible packaging
Reynolds Metals: L-sealer
Model RM1622M Reynolon® L-Sealer from Reynolds Metals Co. (Richmond, VA) seals small items like reams of paper, software, CDs and cassettes with Reynolon Shrink Film or most other polyolefins.
Secondary/end-of-line
Packaging for a creamy candy
Nabisco of Parsippany, NJ, recent-ly introduced Lifesavers Creme Savers®, which it calls 'the first dairy-based hard candy from Lifesavers that blends real cream with classic flavors.' Nabisco marketers wanted to make sure that graphics on the roll candy's overwrap had a 'creamy,' three-dimensional quality that would make the candy stand out on the package.