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Sustainable Packaging
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Beverage
Machinery trainers need upgrading
Three major manufacturers emphasize how important training has become when they evaluate packaging equipment to buy. Too often, technician/trainers know machines, but not how to teach.
September 30, 1998
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Beverage
GPI names 12 Clear Choice winners
The Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) named 12 Clear Choice Award Winners for 1998. New in '98 is the Glass Classics category, intended to highlight the competition's 10th anniversary, and the winner was Canandaigua Wine Co.
September 30, 1998
Sustainable Packaging
Supply geography leads A-B to Mexican bottles
In an exchange that may be more smoke than fire, officials of the Glass Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers Intl. Union (GMP) have protested Anheuser-Busch's decision to purchase glass beer bottles from the Mexicali, Mexico, plant of Anchor Glass Container Corp., a unit of Consumers Packaging (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Anheuser-Busch tests PEN bottle to answer some market questions
The first commercial market appearance of a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) homopolymer bottle in the United States occurred earlier this summer in New York City and on New York's Long Island.
August 31, 1998
Beverage
What packagers want in turnkey projects
Exclusive survey of medium to large manufacturers reveals the services they want-and need. Documentation, engineering design and electrical engineering are the main areas of assistance required.
August 31, 1998
Beverage
What packagers want in turnkey projects (sidebar)
Outsourcing not always 'in'
August 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
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.
July 31, 1998
Beverage
California container law expansion?
Bills to expand California's beverage container redemption value law are under consideration by committees in the state legislature. Expansion efforts are aimed at containers of other beverage types, such as teas, coffees, sports drinks and juices.
July 31, 1998
Beverage
'Benefits' label for beer?
The beer industry may seek government permission to include a benefits statement, as well as the mandatory warning, on beer labels. According to Craig Purser, director of industry affairs for the National Beer Wholesalers Assn., brewers are waiting to see if the wine industry wins approval of its request for a benefits statement.
July 31, 1998
Closures
Are packagers ready to invest in metal's best and brightest?
Packaging managers looking for innovations can be forgiven for focusing most of their attention on the flexible packaging and rigid plastic container fields.
June 30, 1998
Flexibles
Brewers tap holographic effects
Two brewers are adding holographic effects to their packaging to entice consumers at retail: Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, WI, has redesigned its Magnum malt liquor to include a label with a psuedo-holographic look, and Coors Brewing Co., Golden, CO, is launching a summer promotion for Coors Light that incorporates holographic packaging.
June 30, 1998
Labels
Miller brews new looks for Lite
Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing has introduced what it claims is the first major packaging redesign for Miller Lite since the brand's 1975 debut. In June, Miller Lite bottles hit store shelves across the U.S.
June 30, 1998
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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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