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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Beer: Page 63
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Sutter Home bottle breaks new ground
Commonly used for wide-mouth jars and narrow-neck beers, bottles made with press-and-blow technology haven't been available to wineries--until now. Eye-catching labels complete this package upgrade.
January 31, 1996
Beverage
Ohio bans Bad Frog beer
The old refrain, "there's no such thing as bad publicity," is proving true at Bad Frog Brewery Co., Rose City, MI. In October, the company successfully launched its Bad Frog premium beer within its home state.
January 31, 1996
Beverage
Miller's new beer joins 'family'
Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, WI, introduced its new Miller premium beer this month in Texas, Florida and Louisiana, with nationwide sales scheduled for March.
January 31, 1996
Beverage
Wire stopper cap makes a comeback
Retro packaging strikes again. St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is the latest player in the retro game, reaching all the way back to the late 1800s for old-time appeal.
December 31, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Mexican Coke bottler gets in shape
Coca-Cola's 'true contour' PET bottle is a big success in several parts of Mexico. Promotora blow-molding plant decorates with a shrink label of OPP applied with glue.
November 30, 1995
Beverage
Beer design evinces local flavor
While regional brewers can never compete with huge ad budgets of the majors, they can play the home town advantage. Vancouver Island Brewery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, did just this when it had prepress house Image Pac (Richmond, B.C., Canada) design new corrugated 6- and 12-pack boxes, introduced in January '95.
November 30, 1995
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Alcohol content labels coming to a head
The BATF is set to issue a proposal on how alcohol content can appear on beer labels. Many brewers strongly oppose mandatory labeling.
November 30, 1995
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Alcohol content labels coming to a head
Bottle bordom: Can beverage bottles be more innovative?
November 30, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Shrink wrap system provides big retail thrust
A shrink wrapper overcomes heat and packing obstacles to bundle two 24-count trays of mr. big candy bars, enabling Neilson Cadbury to satisfy Canada's retailer demand for a 48-count pack.
October 31, 1995
Flexibles
A wedge up on the competition
Cheesy packaging is not necessarily a bad thing. Just ask Jan Berger, president of Chicago-based Turtle Island, Inc., marketer of Just for Joy(TM) cheese-based gourmet soups.
September 30, 1995
Beverage
Price hikes pinch beer margins
Brewers are taking it on the chin as much as anyone when it comes to rising packaging costs, forcing them, and wholesalers, to find new ways to reduce operating and production costs and increase volumes and prices.
September 30, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Making steel beverage cans in South Africa
This South African can-making operation uses an automated palletizing system and other high-speed equipment to turn out 600 million steel beverage cans a year.
August 31, 1995
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