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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Machinery brings the future to Latrobe
The front end of this glass line for 12-oz Rolling Rock beer is practically an operator-free zone. Laser-guided vehicles replenish packaging materials on demand. See in-plant video
September 30, 2001
Beer: Page 47
Flexibles
Shrink label sales to double
Sales of shrink labels for bottles and other containers will double between 1999 and 2004, according to a new study from Keymark Associates. “Opportunities in Shrink Film Labels for Bottles” says milk, ready-to-drink tea, sports drinks, and beer will show growth of more than 30% annually, 20% for juice, and 15% for water, ready-to-drink coffee, and liquor.
August 31, 2001
Beverage
Oxygen absorber growth
Dollar and unit sales of oxygen absorbers used in packaging is forecast to increase nearly 20% per year through 2005 in North America. So reports “Oxygen Absorbers in Packaging—Hit or Hype?” a new report from BRG Townsend, Inc.
August 31, 2001
Beverage
Beer container growth
Market research firm The Freedonia Group announced that the world demand for beer containers will grow nearly 3% per year to 315 billion units in 2005. Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia will lead the demand.
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
Coors carton 'on the rocks'
Just in time for the summer picnic season, Golden, CO-based Coors released its Coors Cooler Box, a disposable cooler carton with a patented barrier that holds ice and water.
July 31, 2001
Recycling
Mandatory deposit bill introduced
The National Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act of 2001 was introduced in Congress by Rep. Lynn N. Rivers (D-MI). The bill amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require a 10¢ deposit and refund on every beverage container sold in the United States.
July 31, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Other NACD winners cont.
General industrial and automotive: gold to North Pak Palmer Container (Twinsburg, OH) and Ashland Chemical for an F-style can and spout for insulation adhesives; silver to Richards Packaging and Bardahl for a bottle and closure for a custom designed bottle for automotive chemicals; bronze to TricorBraun and Senoret Chemical for a bottle and dispensing closure for a pesticide.
June 30, 2001
Beverage
Demand for beer containers cont
EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Market growth put at 3% a year, with average container size also increasing, says Freedonia Group report. Click logo for full article.
June 30, 2001
Beverage
Light beer grabs new star
Lone Star Light showed off its new package design at the Seventh Annual Great Texas Beer Festival on May 22. According to San Antonio, TX-based Pabst Brewing Co., LS Light was redesigned to differentiate the brand as a stand-alone, as opposed to its previous stance as a “light version” of Lone Star.
June 30, 2001
Labels
Putting the 'K' in packaging
Canandaigua Wine Co.’s newest addition, K, is an alcoholic hard cider produced in England, designed to look like nothing beer drinkers have seen before.
June 30, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Distributors show off creativity
A total of 21 packages in seven categories were honored with awards in the annual NACD competition. Winners in the food category are products of precise engineering.
June 30, 2001
Containers
Reinventing the old-fashioned root beer barrel
Turning to roots that stretch back to 1937, beverage manufacturer Briar’s USA, North Brunswick, NJ, has designed an old-fashioned package for its Pure Cane Sugar soft drinks.
May 31, 2001
Beverage
Anheuser-Busch'tees up'golf-ball can
Beginning Feb. 26, 2001, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch made Michelob and Michelob Light available nationwide in new 12-oz aluminum cans with a golf ball decoration embossed onto can fronts and backs.
March 31, 2001
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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.
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