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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
Flutes orchestrate smoother corrugated board
Single-facing machinery helps Longview Fibre's Milwaukee plant bond the medium to the liner without pressure marks. Meanwhile, the company's new six-color flexographic press produces images that customers say rival preprint.
June 30, 1997
Beer: Page 59
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
A truly Superior ink packaging line
Automated filling, lidding, labeling and case packing line lets Superior Printing Ink consolidate far-flung operations under one roof. Bar-coded labels are printed on-line.
June 30, 1997
Beverage
PEN polymers lure beverage marketers (sidebar)
Beer in PET, PEN bottles studied
May 31, 1997
Recycling
Can lines to dwindle; can recycling rates up
The number of can lines producing two-piece drawn-and-ironed aluminum cans for beer and beverages in the U.S. will drop 15%, from 178 to 151, between 1996 and 2001.
May 31, 1997
Protective/transport packaging
PEN polymers lure beverage marketers
Superior thermal properties, chemical resistance, and high barrier to oxygen transmission have made PEN and other naphthalate-based materials irresistable for a hot-filled isotonic drink and for citrus juices.
May 31, 1997
Beverage
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Spartanburg Stainless Products Inc. (Spartanburg, SC) has signed an agreement to purchase beer and small chemical keg manufacturing equipment from Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA).
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Plastics under seige in Massachusetts
A plastics recycling bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts state Senate that would, if passed, doom the sale of most plastic packaging. The bill bans plastic packaging for consumer products unless at least 80% of Massachusetts residents have access to plastics recycling facilities by December 31, 2000.
April 30, 1997
Sustainability
Turning the shoe industry on end
Italian shoemaker challenges packaging conventions by adopting a vertical gable-top package that resembles both a doctor's bag and a milk carton. Patented carton design offers environmental advantages in waste-conscious Europe.
April 30, 1997
Flexibles
Getting noticed is now packaging mission #1
In today's market, there are more serious packaging developments than the emergence of beverage containers with walls purposefully bent out of shape.
April 30, 1997
Flexibles
Add-on packaging revs up Coors' sales
First things first. Yes, it's a real package. No, it's not actually shipped that way. But when retailers hand-erect the faux carburetor valve covers and insert the tabs into die-cut slots on 24-count multipacks of the new "engine block" package for Coors Light, they've got a clever floor display that has jump-started sales of the brand in a recent promotion, says the Golden, CO, brewer.
April 30, 1997
Recycling
National bottle bill?
Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) once again has introduced a bill requiring all beer, water and soft drink containers sold in the U.S. to carry a 10¢ deposit.
March 31, 1997
Sustainable Packaging
Life-cycle analysis gains political cachet
The President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD), having received a new lease on life, will be pushing ahead with its efforts to proselytize on behalf of "Extended Product Responsibility (EPR)," a concept that has numerous implications for users of packaging.
March 31, 1997
Sustainable Packaging
Designers pick top ten
What will be hot in '97?
February 28, 1997
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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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