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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Widmer's bottle inspectors craft success
Widmer Brothers verifies fill level, missing crowns, as well as full cases of its newly introduced 12-oz bottles of beer. Newer bottling line produces draft 'biers' much like kegs.
August 31, 1997
Beer: Page 59
Beverage
Plastic to outpace other materials
In the beverage industry, plastic will lead the growth of other materials at least through the year 2001, predicts a new study from industrial market research firm Freedonia Group (Cleveland, OH).
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
Cryogenic cooling of heat-set PET awaits patents
The technology's not commercial yet, and it certainly has its skeptics. Test results show that thermal and barrier properties are enhanced significantly by blowing PET into heated molds and cooling with LN2 delivered by a unique new system.
July 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Alcohol content
A new California labeling law for alcoholic beverages requires all beverages containing more than 5.7% alcohol by volume to declare that content on the label.
July 31, 1997
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
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
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