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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

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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
As a group of bottles is conveyed right to left in the case packer, one of the eight heads of gripping bells moves into position
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
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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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Secondary Packaging
Palletizer/horizontal case packer
Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) will show the new Eagle 50 Robotic Palletizer, manufactured by Italy's Gruppo Elettric 80, fully integrated with the Schneider high-speed, servo-driven, horizontal case packer.
October 31, 1996
Sustainability
R&D managers urged to see the global picture
Packaging research and development managers will need to expand their view beyond the four walls of the corporate fortress. That means paying closer attention to the economics of R&D decisions, and understanding the company's international role.
October 31, 1996
Sustainable Packaging
Shrinking U.S. glass container industry will likely raise prices next year
Paper. Metal. Plastic. Glass. In roughly that order, those are the materials from which packages have been made in the United States for the last half of the 20th century.
October 31, 1996
Beverage
R&D managers urged to see the global picture (sidebar)
The perils of international sourcing
October 31, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Pack Expo Plus: Seminars, conferences and allied shows
High-tech packaging solutions, new resin technologies, healthcare packaging, and better sealing technologies are just a few of the areas covered in conferences and seminars during Pack Expo week.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Components assume new importance in packaging
Conveyors, coding and marking machines, and motors and drives are the components best-known to packagers who have production and engineering responsibilities.
September 30, 1996
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Beverage
Paper deposit law?
Paperboard packaging may inadvertently get caught up in Oregon's deposit law if voters approve a referendum on the November ballot expanding the law to include other types of drinks.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Automated case handling
The Freeway System from Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) automates the transporting and palletizing of packed cases. It can be retrofitted onto most packaging lines, says the company.
September 30, 1996
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