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Flexible packaging
Pasta/produce combo gets tf/f/s treatment
Salinas produce marketer Tanimura & Antle thermoforms its own trays for the Broccoli Time combo pack. Will consumers get used to seeing such full meals in the refrigerated produce section?
September 30, 1995
Dairy: Page 101
Sustainable Packaging
Winners cited by Glass Packaging Institute
An amber soft drink bottle and wide-mouth salsa container earned top honors from the Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) in the seventh annual Clear Choice Awards.
September 30, 1995
Dairy
Pack size restrictions dropped
Thanks to a change in the uniform weights and measures regulations for dairy products, processors have new opportunities for marketing their products.
September 30, 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
Converting equipment
Brach's bags a winner with nine-color candy graphics
A 10-station gravure press lets Morrill Press print in nine colors, then laminate that structure to a sealant layer in-line on a single pass for Brach & Brock Confections' chocolate-covered raisins.
August 31, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
Part 2How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)
Purchasers skewer vendors with increasing prices
August 31, 1995
Beverage
Environment-influenced packaging: It ain't over yet (sidebar)
Companies big and small
August 31, 1995
Coding, Printing & Labeling
How effective is nutrition labeling?
It must depend on who is asked. GMA claims that an "overwhelming majority of consumers" read food labels, and that 63% of consumers find the nutritional information on the label to be "easier to understand." However, a survey by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Prevention Magazine reported that most food shoppers are not familiar with the new nutrition label.
August 31, 1995
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Vermont's BST label regs challenged
Barring a court injunction being sought by dairy industry groups, manufacturers of dairy products will be subject to Vermont's mandatory BST labeling regulations as of September 12, 1995.
August 31, 1995
Filling/capping, dry
Auger filler
Mateer-Burt's (Booth #1605) new Neotron Series 1800 servo-driven auger filler provides accurate filling within ±.45% of targeted weight. It's for use with free-flowing or non-free-flowing liquids and powders, as well as liquids, creams, pastes, viscous liquids and slurries.
July 31, 1995
Filling/capping, dry
Auger filler
Mateer-Burt's (Booth #1605) new Neotron Series 1800 servo-driven auger filler provides accurate filling within ±.45% of targeted weight. It's for use with free-flowing or non-free-flowing liquids and powders, as well as liquids, creams, pastes, viscous liquids and slurries.
July 31, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)
Purchasers skewer vendors for increasing prices
July 31, 1995
Flexible packaging
Packaging pros take Greeley's advice and "Go West!"
If you want to test new packaging concepts, evaluate the latest in packaging technology or determine what new consumer packaging ideas are likely to be flowing through the American manufacturing-to-consumption pipeline in the next year or so, go West now.
July 31, 1995
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Spouted Pouch Filling & Capping System
ALLIEDFLEX expands its FLX Machinery lineup with the FLX Rotary Duo SpoutFill, a duplex rotary system designed to fill and cap pre-made spouted pouches at speeds up to 70 pouches per minute for liquid food, dairy, and grab-and-go applications.
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