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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
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Beverage
Food
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Beverage
'Liberty' can flies for Folgers
As America celebrated its birthday this summer, Procter & Gamble launched a limited-edition "Liberty Collector’s Can" that holds 39 oz of ground coffee. The can is just now phasing out of the market.
July 31, 2003
Coffee: Page 24
Flexibles
Enhancing a brand with happy cows
Armed with a design concept statement that ‘happy cows give good milk,’ label converter Fort Dearborn Co. came up with labels that build brand equity for Oberweis Dairy.
July 31, 2003
Beverage
F. Gaviña & Sons: Coding of coffee cans
A Videojet ink-jet coder that marks the lid of each 1-lb can of coffee with a production date code. It replaced an older and less efficient model.
May 31, 2003
Secondary Packaging
F. Gaviña & Sons: Tray packing of coffee product
Installed about a year ago as a replacement was a Model 127SL case/tray packer from S.V. Dice. Its rated speed is 35 cases or trays/min, though currently Gavi–a typically runs in the range of 25/min. After tray blanks are picked and erected and collated cans are pushed onto them, filled trays are discharged toward the shrink wrap system.
May 31, 2003
Conveying & accumulation
F. Gaviña & Sons: Case erecting for coffee producer
Corrugated blanks are pulled from a magazine and automatically set up by this machine, which replaces a manual operation.
May 31, 2003
Secondary Packaging
F. Gaviña & Sons: Shrink wrapping of 1-lb cans of tray-packed coffee
This shrink wrapper, supplied by Packaging Machines Intl., replaces an older system. Tray-packed 1-lb cans of coffee are sent through a shrink tunnel.
May 31, 2003
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
F. Gaviña & Sons: Vertical form/fill/seal of coffee bags
After film is pulled through a vf/f/s section and bags are filled with coffee, a heater bar heat seals the top of the bags. Later, a tin-tie is automatically applied and folded for each bag. Finally, each bag has tape applied to its top and the bags are then discharged from the machine.
May 31, 2003
Flexibles
Coffee roaster sees packaging as a key to growth
F. Gaviña & Sons has plans to bust out of its California backyard and take on the competition nationwide.See in-plant video
May 31, 2003
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Q&A: Used equipment helps Gavina grow
Leo Fandino, plant manager at F. Gavina & Sons, is currently overseeing the completion of a brand new plant where plenty of new packaging equipment is being installed or is on the way. But used equipment also has a role to play at this Vernon, CA gourmet coffee marketer. Here Gavina talks about that role.
April 30, 2003
Closures
Single-handed convenience
One-handed dispensing of coffee creamer is coming to dairy cases across the country as Morningstar Foods, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Dean Foods Co., begins shipping its International Delight brand in PET containers with a custom dispensing closure.
March 31, 2003
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Servo auger filler/bagger
The Phaser Bagger from EaglePack (Oakland, CA) will be shown at the 2003 SCAA coffee exposition in Boston, held April 25-28.
February 28, 2003
Flexibles
Candy and coffee team up
If Seattle-based Starbucks is synonymous with fine coffee, Brown & Haley, Tacoma, WA, has a similar cachet with its Almond Roca candy. Beginning this year, the two organizations are teaming up as B&H produces Mocha Roca Coffee Buttercrunch in distinctive packaging for exclusive sale at Starbucks outlets.
February 28, 2003
Containers
Folgers packs a coffee house experience
An octagon-shaped high-density polyethylene canister is helping Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble’s Folgers-brand Café Latte deliver to retail markets a true coffee house experience.
January 31, 2003
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