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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Alcohol content labels coming to a head
Bottle bordom: Can beverage bottles be more innovative?
November 30, 1995
Beer: Page 64
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
Sustainable Packaging
Environment-influenced packaging: It ain't over yet
Is there a discernible difference in the way management and production personnel view environment-related packaging changes? A Packaging World survey reports that everybody's still on the same page.
August 31, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)
Purchasers skewer vendors for increasing prices
July 31, 1995
Containers
U.K. beer recall results in relaunch
In mid-July, U.K.-based joint venture Carlsberg-Tetley PLC introduced Tetley's Draught beer in 500-mL aluminum cans. The brew's new can graphics sport cream colors that depict the decorative huntsman roundel popular on beer taps in British pubs.
July 31, 1995
Beer
Nutrition labels for beer?
The camel's nose got under the tent when the Supreme Court overturned the federal law banning alcohol content on beer labels. Now, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, has petitioned the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to allow companies to make health claims on alcoholic beverage labels.
July 31, 1995
Sustainability
Steel eyes the aluminum beverage can market
This year speculation around the world says that steel may regain an appreciable part of the beverage can market it lost to aluminum-thanks to steel's favorable costs. European trend may presage a similar shift in the U.S. in the next few years.
June 30, 1995
Flexibles
Naphthalate-based bottles beckon
High-performance bottles made of PEN homopolymer or naphthalate-based copolyesters are beginning to find their way out of technical conferences and onto store shelves around the globe.
June 30, 1995
Beverage
American brewers exporting more to Japan
It may not balance U.S. imports of automobiles, but U.S. brewers are becoming ever more important as production and packaging houses for beer brands in Japan.
June 30, 1995
Flexibles
High-performance polyesters
HiPERTUF(TM) polyester resins from Shell Chemical (Akron, OH) are homopolymer 2ƾ dimethyl naphthalate-based polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), which provide a number of benefits over PET, including hotter fill temperatures, better chemical resistance, and improved gas and UV barriers.
May 31, 1995
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