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Sustainable Packaging
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Designers pick top ten
What will be hot in '97?
February 28, 1997
Beer: Page 60
Secondary Packaging
No uniformity in changeover demands
Almost any way you measure packaging line changeover, the answers from Packaging World readers vary widely. The major agreement is that more changes are being demanded-and less time is available for doing them. However, the strategies for hastening change
February 28, 1997
Beverage
O'Doul's calls phone card label a success
A Christmas holiday promotion involving a special telephone card "label" affixed to the inside of 12-packs of O'Doul's non-alcoholic beer has been called a success by Anheuser-Busch.
February 28, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Ales boast custom bottle, gold-stamped labels
When Portland, OR-based BridgePort Brewing Co. added two new brands to its line of premium ales last month, it used the opportunity to introduce a custom glass bottle for all four ale varieties in the line.
January 31, 1997
Closures
Study confirms bottles affect wine buying
A recent study on American wine purchasing shows that glass wine bottles play a key role in determining which wine is purchased. Marketers considering dropping glass in favor of some other packaging material would do well to analyze the study-perhaps even duplicate it in their own product categories-before making a move.
December 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Multipacks double the ante for bottles
A European brewer is first to offer two-layer multipacks for glass bottles. The tall 24- and 30-packs present more graphic billboard area and permit easier handling for consumers.
December 31, 1996
Sustainability
Plastic beer bottle could be big
Australian brewing giant Carlton United Breweries has high hopes for a barrier beer bottle made of plastic. In the meantime, it's launched a monolayer PET bottle that's causing quite a stir.
December 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Shrink label gives this mule a kick
From Russia by way of the U.K. comes a vodka-based drink called the Smirnoff Mule in a glass bottle with a label that's nearly as exotic as the beverage itself.
December 31, 1996
Beverage
Coke surges ahead with new soft drink
Surge, Coca-Cola USA's "fully loaded citrus soda," hits store shelves across the country this month in both cans and bottles. The 12-oz cans use an EZO wide-mouth end for easy drinkability.
December 31, 1996
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
New bottle packers help Modelo deal with refillables
Southern Mexican brewery installs high-speed rotary bottle packers that are now used throughout Modelo's system. Efficency soars even with returnable cases of marginal quality.
November 30, 1996
Recycling
Oregon nixes expanded bottle-deposit law
Oregon voters decisively rejected a ballet initiative that would have expanded the current bottle-deposit law, which applies only to beer and carbonated beverages, to include more than 800 products, including paperboard packaging containers.
November 30, 1996
Beverage
Beer label changes colors down under
Though common by now in the U.S., red lagers are new to Australia. So when Lloyd Products of Regency Park, Adelaide, Australia, launched its Red Ant lager last summer, it wanted packaging that would draw attention to this unusual product.
November 30, 1996
Beverage
Latin America: this can's for you
Since October, Bud drinkers across most of Latin America found the venerable brew in a fluted aluminum can. St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is rolling out the new 12-oz, 211-dia can as a permanent replacement for standard cans of Budweiser in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica and Belize.
November 30, 1996
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