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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Beer: Page 48
Additives, coatings & inks
Dynamic growth for O2 scavengers
Average annual growth of oxygen scavenger packaging products in the United States is forecast at a stunning 215% between now and 2003. That’s according to George O. Schroeder Associates (Appleton, WI), international consultants in flexible and rigid plastic food packaging.
March 31, 2001
Beverage
Used equipment buyers offer 'suggestions'
Packaging machine buyers sound off about buying used or rebuilt packaging machines. Many say the process needs to resemble how they buy new equipment.
March 31, 2001
Beverage
Promo pack 'tees up'
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 embossed on both front and back. The cans are made in-house by A-B on embossing equipment from Alcoa Packaging Machinery (Crawfordsville, IN).
February 28, 2001
Flexibles
Smirnoff Ice refreshes
Already a success in the United Kingdom, Smirnoff Ice from Guinness Bass Import and United Distillers & Vintners, Stamford, CT, began rolling out in February in the United States and Canada. Called an “alco-pop,” the five-percent-proof citrus-flavored malt beverage comes in a 12-oz glass bottle with decorating reminiscent of bottles for Smirnoff’s vodka. The product is being offered exclusively for on-premise consumption in bars, restaurants, pubs and clubs.
February 28, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Coupling smooths packer's pick-and-place motion
Servo motor coupling provides smooth and accurate pick-and-place motion in a case packer at Jersey Juice.
February 28, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Decorating, market goals make glass winners
Clear Choice winners for 2000 reinforce the premium image of glass containers. Winners also employ costly decorating, including applied ceramic labeling and heat-transfer labels.
February 28, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Spare Parts Purchasing: Online Parts Buyers Find the Right Track
Go to www.barry-wehmiller.com. Click on the Parts folder. Log in. Type in your part number. Select desired quantity.
January 31, 2001
Sustainable Packaging
Molded pulp benefits beer, motorcycle parts shipments
Harley-Davidson and Merchant Direct discussed how they ride the advantages of molded pulp at IMPEPA’s late-September seminar.
November 30, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Laser-guided vehicles at Latrobe
REPORTING FROM PACK EXPO: Rolling Rock beer brewer Latrobe Brewery, Latrobe, PA, bought three Elettric 80 laser-guided vehicles in early 2000 to move pallets of finished product throughout its warehouse. The same model was running non-stop at the Sasib booth.
October 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID tags metal beer kegs
REPORTING FROM PACK EXPO: Metal-iTag™, a new metal asset tracking solution from Marconi's InfoChain div. (Wood Dale, IL), was displayed on empty beer kegs at its booth. Marconi’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology offers real-time product identification. Metal-iTag is currently being beta tested with all major brewers nationwide, according to Marconi.
October 31, 2000
Flexibles
Coors bottle echoes Rockies
Coors' five-layer plastic bottle for Coors Lite has a Rocky Mountains motif molded into the sidewall.
October 31, 2000
Beverage
Textured finish is a first
In launching a new beer called Swan Mid, brand manager Brenton Foster of Australia's Swan Brewery wanted a package that would stand out from other beer products.
October 31, 2000
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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
Wide-Mouth To-Go Glass Bottle
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