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Primary packaging
PEF elects 'Class of 2003' Packaging Hall of Famers
Members of the Packaging Education Forum (PEF) elected Arnie Orloski Jr. (shown), William E. Archibald, William R. Armstrong, and Richard G. Lee into the Packaging Hall of Fame, Class of 2003.
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Paperboard 12-pack wins award
A new 12-pack paperboard can multipack has won the coveted Structural/Technical Innovation award in the 2001 National Paperboard Packaging Competition, sponsored by the Paper-board Packaging Council (Alexandria, VA). Called the DuoStrap®, the Mead Packaging (Atlanta, GA) carton has already received patents for its integral handle and also for its can roll-out dispensing device.
Contract packaging
Tradewinds 12-pack
Customers at a major national retailer will soon have the option of buying 16-oz bottles of Tradewinds kettle-brewed teas multipacked in an unusual 12-bottle case.
Secondary/end-of-line
Multipacker makes the grade at Buffalo Rock
The country's largest family-owned Pepsi bottler, Buffalo Rock Bottling Co. of Birmingham, AL, recently installed a new multipacker selected for its high-speed and quick-changeover capabilities.
Primary packaging
Lakeport likes can filling flexibility
This Ontario brewer designed a can filling line that accepts sizes from 8 to 32 oz. Secondary packaging can be corrugated trays, paperboard or plastic ring carriers.
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Supplier news: International agreements
Mead Packaging Div. (Atlanta, GA) has entered a strategic collaboration with Dai Nippon Printing (Tokyo, Japan) to increase the use of paperboard multi-packaging in Japan.
Coding, printing & labeling
SouthPack to unveil 'Gallery of Packaging'
The Creative Packaging Show, 500 exhibitors, a Scan Tech pavilion and a wide-ranging conference program-it's all part of SouthPack, set to attract 11ꯠ to Atlanta's World Congress Center, May 6 to 8.
Materials & containers
Packaging rediscovers the language of touch
New packages from Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta, GA) and Matrix Essentials, Inc. (Solon, OH) provide dramatic evidence that the importance of a package's tactile quality is making a dramatic U.S.
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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Mead Packaging (Atlanta, GA) commenced production at its new $12.5 million offset printing facility in Lanett, AL.
