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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
Beer: Page 62
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
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Mandatory alcoholcontent labels?
Once again Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) is taking aim at the licensed beverage industry, introducing legislation designed to curb the promotion of alcoholic beverages.
June 30, 1996
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Vertical case packer
The vertical case packer from Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) can top- or bottom-load products of any shape into RSCs, HSCs, overlapping or display cases.
May 31, 1996
Beverage
Do Germany's package restrictions restrict trade?
In what may be just one challenge to the European "Union" policy, the European Commission has formally charged that Germany's policy of requiring high percentages of refillable containers for beverages unlawfully restricts free trade.
March 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Speedier heat transfer decorating
Culminating a two-year cooperative program, Avery Dennison's Decorating Technologies Div. (Framingham, MA) and Krones (Franklin, WI) have developed Thermocol, a new patent-pending system to apply heat-transfer decorating onto glass, plastic and metal containers at speeds to 500/min.
March 31, 1996
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