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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
Juice: Page 18
Beverage
AriZona Beverage Co. improves productivity with equipment found at Pack Expo
Changeover Time Reduced by 50%; Packaging Speed Increased by 20%.
July 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Percent ingredient labeling
The U.S. is likely to oppose any effort by the Codex Alimentarius Commission to adopt an international labeling standard that calls for listing the percentage of the main ingredients on a packaged food label.
July 31, 2005
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Old Orchard Brands: Filling/capping for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
A 42-nozzle liquid filler from Fogg Filler is integrated with a 14-head rotary capper, also from Fogg.
April 30, 2005
Beverage
Old Orchard Brands: Cooler infeed for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
The cooler infeed sends neatly oriented bottles through the cooler. Old Orchard is among the first to adopt the ICwedge cooler infeed, which is made by Industrial Consortium. The switch from round to rectangular bottles-in both 64- and 128-oz sizes-helped push Old Orchard to adopt the new cooler infeed.
April 30, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Old Orchard Brands: High-speed labeler for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
A short distance from the cooler discharge sits this high-speed, Krones 15-station Canmatic labeler, which applies full-wrap cut labels to the 64-oz bottles.
April 30, 2005
Secondary Packaging
Old Orchard Brands: Case taping for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
If one of the two Wexxar case tapers goes down or runs out of tape, cases are automatically channeled through the one that\'s running.
April 30, 2005
Secondary Packaging
Old Orchard Brands: Stretch wrapping for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
Pallet wrapping is done out in the warehouse on an Orion stretch wrapper.
April 30, 2005
Secondary Packaging
Old Orchard Brands: Tray packer for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice
Near the PET line, Old Orchard runs a frozen juice concentrate line, where this tray packer/wrapper from Brenton Engineering was recently installed.
April 30, 2005
Containers
Redundancy rules at Old Orchard
Cap coders, case erectors, case packers, and case tapers are redundant to make sure this high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice can produce up to its potential.See video
April 30, 2005
Recycling
Broader NY bottle bill
The New York State Assembly Committee on Codes endorsed legislation to extend the state’s deposit container law to bottles and cans of juice, iced tea, sports drinks, and water.
March 31, 2005
Beverage
Coke sues over carafe package
Coca-Cola Co., maker of the Minute Maid brand of juices, filed suit January 26 against Florida’s Natural, Lake Wales, FL, claiming that company’s 59-oz carafe container infringes on the patented carafe for Minute Maid’s Simply Orange brand (shown here).
March 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
No label change, say two juice makers
Coca-Cola North America, manufacturers of Minute Maid orange juice, and Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., rejected a call by the Florida Department of Citrus to change the labeling on packages of “light” orange juice after studies showed consumers were confused about the juice content of the products.
January 31, 2005
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