From SoBe and from Trinity Springs: hot-fill PET bottles that don't require vacuum panels in the sidewalls.
Flexible packaging
Look what's coming down the packaging pike
From sustainability to high-pressure sterilization to nanotechnology, developments in food and beverage packaging hold tremendous promise.
November 30, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Qualified health claims hard to swallow
FDA reconsiders wording as food packagers become interested in making health claims on package labels.
November 30, 2005
Additives, coatings & inks
Barrier resin suitability
Invista has announced that its PolyShield™ MXD6 barrier resin is suited for use in food pkg. applications in the European Union in contact with all food types, except for fatty foods and foods with an alcohol content greater than 10%.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Robotics improve brewery efficiencies
Medium-size brewery Pyraser Bier GmbH & Co. KG, Thalmassing, Germany, manufactures and markets several types of beer as well as carbonated beverages, juices, and other nonalcoholic drinks.
October 31, 2005
Pw 10784 Pyraser Bier Kuka Robotics
Controls & Machine Components
'Virtual' mechanical devices are mere graphical software elements
Rack-based, multi-processor control system makes carton filler easier and less costly to build, install, and operate.
October 31, 2005
The servo motor/drive combination used in the machine.
Flexibles
Packaging made from renewable resources gains traction
As petroleum-based materials edge upward in cost, packaging made from renewable resources grows more appealing. Says one water bottler, 'It’s the right thing.'
October 31, 2005
Among packaging materials made from renewable resources is one made from palm fiber. The Oppenheimer Group of Vancouver, Canada,
Filling/capping, dry
New bottle filler
PACK EXPO : Evergreen Packaging offered its new BFCG-32/16 bottle filler at Pack Expo Las Vegas in September. This small footprint rotary machine fills 8-, 16-, and 32-oz bottles at speeds to 400 bottles/min with an integrated screw capper.
September 30, 2005
Pw 10853 Pewe Evergreen
Recycling
Aseptic and ESL packaging keeps evolving (sidebar)
Glass coating for barrier
September 30, 2005
Plasmax 12D at Bischofszell
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Adding value to both RFID and packaging
Why not concentrate on more sophisticated and advanced applications of RFID that bring added value?
August 31, 2005
Ralf Saykiewicz, vice president/solution architect, Technology Solutions Co.
Recycling
Confirming credibility--beyond the package
It’s said that buying decisions are made at retailer’s shelves and that packaging is the ultimate influencer.
August 31, 2005
POMWonderful_120KB.tif Most recently, and based on structural design alone, an especially impactful design is the Pom Wonderful
Recycling
Five tactics for retaining equity in extensions
Brand extensions represent a way to leverage a brand’s assets and equity to market new products or services.
August 31, 2005
Pw 11029 We Coke
Secondary Packaging
Around the Industry
Aaron Thomas Company Inc. has opened an 87ꯠ-sq-ft manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facility in Bolingbrook, IL, southwest of Chicago.
August 31, 2005
Pw 11055 Page 6 1
Flexible packaging
BIB tap maintains sterility in use
A patented dispenser tap that keeps low-acid bag-in-box products aseptic after opening draws end-user interest, including Dale’s Kitchen for soup stocks.
August 31, 2005
Dale's Kitchen aseptic stocks in 2-gal BIB packs are set to debut in October. The one-way dispensing tap preserves the quality o
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