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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules
Several unorthodoxies on the filling line make it possible for this soft, squeezable, straight-walled polypropylene container to resist paneling after hot-filling. Also new is a first-of-its-kind on-line shrink label application in a bottling plant.
October 31, 1997
Dairy: Page 91
Flexibles
Paper-based lid
Ensolid, from Enso Intl. (Stamford, CT), is a paper-based, aluminum-free peelable lidding material prepared with a barrier coating that permits easy peeling without tearing.
October 31, 1997
Dairy
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
The Dairy Food and Packaging Group of Twinpak Inc. (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) has opened a rigid plastic packaging facility in Newport News, VA.
October 31, 1997
Flexibles
An easier Caesar
In 1994 Saco Foods of Middleton, WI, launched its Easy Caesar salad kit, consisting of croutons, grated cheese, and salad dressing each individually pouched and combined in a folding carton.
October 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Rollstock, Inc: Vacuum packaging machine
Rollstock (Kansas City, MO) offers an automatic vacuum packaging machine for fresh or frozen food applications, including cheese, vegetables, meat, seafood, soup and sauces.
September 30, 1997
Flexibles
Pleasing consumers with unexpected packaging
Around our way, a Coca-Cola vending machine at the Cleveland Zoo recently surprised my wife and me by delivering a 20-oz contour PET bottle after forcefully pulling a dollar bill out of our hands.
September 30, 1997
Dairy
McCormick Place becomes food 'store'
The Worldwide Food Expo '97 combines the efforts of U.S. dairy, meat and food processing associations at McCormick Place in Chicago. Attracted also by technical seminars and other meetings, nearly 35ꯠ are expected October 30 to November 2.
September 30, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Filler enables DriWater to eject rejects
Auger filler more accurately fills 1-qt paperboard cartons containing DriWater, a time-release liquid gel for areas where water is scarce. Greater fill accuracy reduces product and packaging material waste, and labor costs.
September 30, 1997
Beverage
Purchasing people lack pay, sourcing opportunities
Purchasing agents are compensated the lowest among all respondents to Packaging World's exclusive salary survey. They say opportunities are being missed for sourcing better materials and arranging strategic partnerships with suppliers.
September 30, 1997
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Modem bridges 8,000-mile gap
New Zealand's Grated Cheese Co. relies on its vendor's engineers for tech support of its new combination weigher-from 8ꯠ miles away.
September 30, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Cooking up hot graphics
"It really screams barbecue." That's how Tony Arancio, product buyer at Lechters, Inc., describes the new Cooks Club BBQ line, sold nationally through the Harrison, NJ-based Lechters chain.
September 30, 1997
Labels
Dean Foods unveils HDPE bottles for milk
As Packaging World went to press, Franklin, IL-based Dean Foods was introducing its new Milk Chug line of bottled milks in resealable pint, quart and 8-oz high-density polyethylene bottles.
September 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
Nestlé 'Flipz' for new bag
Nestlé Chocolate & Confections, a division of Glendale, CA-based Nestlé U.S.A., introduced Pretzel Flipz(TM) nationwide in August in the Stabilo Bag® from Rovema (Lawrenceville, GA).
August 31, 1997
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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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