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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Beer: Page 62
Beverage
Tropicana tries shelf-stable OJ in PET (sidebar)
Others like PET gallons, too
September 30, 1996
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Bass wraps up market flexibility
A highly flexible multipacker wraps 4-, 6- and 10-count bottles in paperboard to help Bass meet demands of disparate retail markets at home and abroad. Automatic servo-driven dimensional changeover takes 15 seconds.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Pairing pack styles with markets
With Bass's vast reach to more than 70 different export markets, what determines which pack style is used for a given market?
August 31, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Now beverage cans will open wide-- really, really wide
Suddenly, it seems, U.S. brewers are looking to change one of the most popular and endearing features of their cans--the easy-opening features. Last month (See PW, August '96, page 8), we reported on the conversion by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, from its standard, easy-opening stay-on tab (SOT) end to a large opening end (LOE) developed for Miller by Reynolds Metals Co.
August 31, 1996
Beverage
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Anchor Glass Container Corp. (Tampa, FL) is to be the sole glass supplier to The Stroh Brewery Co. (Detroit, MI) in an exclusive 15-yr agreement.
August 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
New grips and a Clear Choice Award
Neither a sports drink nor an iced tea, Talking Rain Beverage Co.'s new Ice(TM) Flavored Water began appearing on store shelves this June in a custom-designed 24-oz bottle known as "The Grip." "It took two years to design this bottle," says John Stevens, founder of the Preston, WA-based company.
August 31, 1996
Beverage
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
Krones, Inc. (Franklin, WI): Floris Delée, brewery eng./product mgr. of Steinecker, subsidiary of the Kronseder Business Group (Neutraubling, Germany).
July 31, 1996
Converting equipment
Brewers turn to PET bottles, wide-mouth cans
A six-month shelf life is claimed for amber 1-L bottles of polyethylene terephthalate holding dark beers produced and marketed by Canada's Algonquin Brewing Co., Ltd., Mississauga, Ont.
July 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Brewers getting 'fresh'
BATF weighs brewers' petitions for freshness dating, and considers requiring brewers to disclose corporate names.
June 30, 1996
Converting equipment
Shaping technology injects market excitement in metal cans
Until a couple of years ago, American packagers using cans seemed satisfied with the straight sidewall profile and functionality of most metal cans. The cans were strong, easy to fill and seam, and offered a number of labeling, case packing and stacking options.
June 30, 1996
Beverage
Bottle bill expansion likely to make ballot in Oregon
It appears almost certain that proponents of a ballot initiative expanding Oregon's bottle bill will collect enough signatures to get it on the ballot in November.
June 30, 1996
Closures
Composite canister cuts costs
When a metal can supplier phased out the can sizes used by Beer Nuts, Inc. for its namesake snack, the Bloomington, IL-based snack company turned to composite canisters from Sonoco Products (Hartsville, SC).
June 30, 1996
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