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Flexible packaging
Redesigned graphics pour Welchito into Hispanic markets
A pilot aluminum can-decorating line in suburban Chicago helps Welch Foods introduce new flavors of Welchito juice drinks to children in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Secondary/end-of-line
Diners find film packs ideal for every meal course
From soups and salads to poultry, foods of all types become winners at the market—and in the 2000 Flexible Packaging Assn. competition.
Primary packaging
Coors rolls out the barrel can
Pub barrel cans of Coors Killian’s Red are wrapped in heat-shrink OPP at a rate of 250 cans/min by a cut-and-glue labeling system located downstream from the can shaper.
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International agreements
Convenience Food Systems (Bakel, the Netherlands) has acquired Dixie Union (Kempten, Germany).
Coding, printing & labeling
Labeled barrel can a natural fit for Killian's
Killian’s® Pub Barrel™ from Coors/Unibev, Golden, CO, brings label graphics to domestic beer cans.
Flexible packaging
International agreements
Rexam PLC (London, England) has agreed to acquire American National Can Group Inc. (Chicago, IL) for $985 million, which would make the co. the largest supplier of cans to Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
Primary packaging
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
UCB Films Inc. (Smyrna, GA): Andy Newman, president.—AGR Intl., Inc. (Butler, PA): Henry Dimmick, Jr., CEO; Robert Cowden, vp, sales and service.—American National Can Group, Inc.
Materials & containers
Lemonade launch refreshed by innovative packaging
In launching the first major ReaLemon Brand® extension in 65-years, package designers at Eagle Family Foods brought plenty of creativity to the first shelf-stable lemonade concentrate.
Flexible packaging
Viskase awarded $165 million over infringement
Viskase Companies, Inc. (Bedford Park, IL) was awarded a final judgment of $164.9 million in compensatory and enhanced damages and prejudgment interest in its patent infringement suit against American National Can Co.
