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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Beverage
Frito Lay, Miller Brewing and P&G Gillette speak out
At PMMI’s MarketTrends conference, a user panel communicated requirements and trends in “What Do Customers Want From Packaging Machinery Manufacturers?”
March 27, 2007
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Closures
Short-height PET closure
Bericap offers the SuperShorty, a 28-mm closure designed for short-height PET neck finishes, providing weight savings in the PET perform and closure, as well as offering an attractive closure design for single-serves.
March 9, 2007
Flexibles
Ready-made, portable beer cooler pack
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, and Curwood, a Bemis Company, (www.curwood.com) are recipients of an FPA Gold Award for Packaging Excellence in recognition of the Curwood Express Tote™ marketed as the Miller Lite Chill Bag.
March 9, 2007
Flexibles
Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch protects sensitive yeast products
Wyeast Laboratories, Inc., Hood River, OR, a leading producer of pure liquid yeast products (fermentation cultures) for beer- and wine-making, and Ampac Flexibles (www.ampaconline.com), a unit of Ampac Packaging LLC, have earned FPA’s 2007 Highest Achievement Award, including Gold Awards for both Packaging Excellence and Technical Innovation. These awards are in recognition of the “Smack Pack” 50-mL and 125-mL retortable stand-up pouch packaging system for Wyeast’s home brewer’s and vintner’s lines of products.
March 8, 2007
Beverage
Shapely bottles add pizzazz
Aluminum bottles are becoming more commonplace in beer, requiring brewers to look for other decorating options to command attention on store shelves. Pittsburgh Brewing Co. is focusing on package shape as a differentiator for its Augustiner Lager brand.
March 8, 2007
Beverage
A-B re-embraces teardrop bottles
It's back to the future for Anheuser-Busch's new Michelob bottles debuting now.
February 22, 2007
Beverage
Time-tested team
Yuengling, one of the oldest breweries in the United States, traditionally has used case-packing equipment manufactured by Standard-Knapp, one of the oldest casing machinery manufacturers in the United States. It has been a long, mutually beneficial partnership.
February 9, 2007
Beverage
New high-speed rotary packer cuts damage & downtime
Kinder, gentler handling results in less bottle breakage and less label scuffing while achieving faster line speeds and higher efficiencies.
February 9, 2007
Flexibles
Lewis and Clark discovers paperless multipacks
Lewis and Clark Brewery, Helena, MT, debuted in summer 2006 a new kind of environmentally friendly six-pack.The brewery has adopted ITW’s BrandPak™, a packaging collaboration from ITW Hi-Cone (www.hi-cone.com) and ITW Auto-Sleeve (www.itw-autosleeve.com) as the multipack of choice for its 12-oz bottles. A sleeving system from PDC Europe (www.pdceurope.com) applies the bands.
February 9, 2007
Beverage
Coors debuts Hispanic Super Bowl packaging
Official beer sponsor of NFL caters to Latino football fans with bilingual Super Bowl packaging.
January 25, 2007
Sustainability
CPG companies hunt for warehouse club treasure
Success in packaging for the warehouse clubs requires innovation and an understanding of the needs of this unique channel.
January 10, 2007
Recycling
Blue bottled brew debuts
A new brew from a venerable name in European beer makes a blue debut in France. Kronenbourg, Alsace, France, selected striking cobalt blue glass bottles for its 1664 Blanc beer.
January 10, 2007
Flexibles
Lewis and Clark discovers new paperless multipacks
Lewis and Clark Brewery, Helena, MT, debuted in summer 2006 a new kind of environmentally friendly six-pack.
January 5, 2007
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Rotary Counter-pressure Filler
Pneumatic Scale Angelus introduces the CB100C rotary counter-pressure filler featuring a 12-head rotary filling turret design, coupled with a dual-station seamer, to allow craft beverage producers to increase their throughput to more than 100 cans/min.
Depalletizer for Breweries
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