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Flexible film use wraps up awards
A bag for grease lubricant and a label for bottled juice are just two examples of innovative film uses that earned Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards.
February 28, 1999
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Dairy
Autoprod Inc: Filling/closing system
The Fast-Pack filling/closing system from Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) is a double-indexing, 12-lane machine with microprocessor-controlled filling stations, SpeedLoader(TM) quick-change foil lid magazines and servo-driven heat-seal stations.
January 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
HDPE-bottled dairy beverages 'milk' 90-day shelf life
Canadian dairy products marketer Natrel is the first North American user of an ultra-high-temperature processing/aseptic filling line. The process permits Natrel to launch single-serve milks and shakes with a 90-day refrigerated shelf life.
January 31, 1999
Secondary Packaging
Packaging for a creamy candy
Nabisco of Parsippany, NJ, recent-ly introduced Lifesavers Creme Savers®, which it calls "the first dairy-based hard candy from Lifesavers that blends real cream with classic flavors." Nabisco marketers wanted to make sure that graphics on the roll candy's overwrap had a "creamy," three-dimensional quality that would make the candy stand out on the package.
January 31, 1999
Additives, coatings & inks
Clinton serves up food safety
Food companies seem likely to face tighter scrutiny of how packaging is stored and used under proposals. New EPA testing could finger some materials.
December 31, 1998
Sustainability
Meadow Gold milks coding machinery
It wasn't too long ago that a one-line, 12-digit code was all that Southern Foods was able to hot-stamp onto its one-gal, high-density polyethylene jugs of Meadow Gold-brand milk.
December 31, 1998
Dairy
Supplier news: Achievements
Bomatic, Inc. (Ontario, CA) has received an IMS Certification in PET packaging to supply the milk industry.-ISO 9001 certification: Dynaroll Inc. (San Fernando, CA); Weber Marking Systems, Inc.
December 31, 1998
Flexibles
Dairy bottle blocks light?
In unveiling last month a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate for 16-oz milk, Dallas-based Schepps Dairy was not the first to put fresh, refrigerated milk in PET (see Packaging World, November '97, p.
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Global regs a trade threat?
Proposals for new international requirements on biotech-enhanced products pose a significant threat to global trade in food, beverages and other consumer products, warns the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA).
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Ice cream maker melts label inventory
Nutrition labeling requirements threatened to throw a real wrench in the works at one family-owned dairy. Thermal-transfer printing on-site was the answer.
November 30, 1998
Palletizing/depalletizing
'Combo' pack puts Tropical Cheese at ease
Checkweigher and metal detector combine to reduce giveaway and help enhance quality control for this maker of natural cheeses marketed to retail and foodservice accounts.
November 30, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Creative compensation keeps packaging people
To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor
November 30, 1998
Closures
Dairy debuts an ESL 'first'
Extended-shelf-life milk in gabletop cartons offering 60-day shelf life has been a proven pack- aging format for years. With the recent launch of its Moovers(TM) brand, Smith Dairy Products of Orrville, OH, wants to offer the same 60-day refrigerated shelf life for milk in bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate.
November 30, 1998
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