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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Converting equipment
Fruit basket in relief adorns PET bottle
A polyethylene terephthalate bottle with a uniquely sculpted fruit-basket image on its shoulder is now reaching supermarkets in 17 eastern states. The 64-oz, heat-set, hot-fill, grip bottle, supplied by Graham Packaging (York, PA), contains 100% juice products from Apple & Eve.
June 30, 2000
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Additives, coatings & inks
Barex cleared for beverages
On June 8, BP Amoco Chemicals announced its Barex 210 Extrusion Grade Resin has been granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration for its use in producing beverage bottles for a variety of applications.
May 31, 2000
Flexibles
Primate-powered packaging
Delicious Brands, marketers of Frookie® Funky Monkeys® graham crackers, wanted its new packaging to be as fun as its name.
May 31, 2000
Beverage
Hyde Park Electronics: Corrosion-resistant sensor
The Superprox® Model SM900A-7-STS series proximity sensor from Hyde Park (Dayton, OH) is suitable for applications involving corrosive chemicals and chemical-based materials.
May 31, 2000
Beverage
Juiced-up labels
Thirty-year-old After The Fall fruit beverages from Smucker Quality Beverages, Chino, CA, needed a packaging redesign to convey a “hipper” attitude.
May 31, 2000
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Containers capture consumer convenience
Surf wax in a deodorant-like container, an ergonomic waste container for biohazardous materials and a snowmobile lubricant in a jug designed for mittened hands are among this year’s NACD award winners.
April 30, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Lassonde innovates with Italian aseptic filler
Squared off in shape like its 2-L predecessor, Lassonde’s 420-mL PET bottle is aseptically filled at 400/min. It’s sold in a three-pack format that’s new to North America.
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Prisma-powered drinks are aimed at adults
An acknowledged leader in aseptic filling of PET bottles, Lassonde Industries is among the first to install a Prisma aseptic packaging system from Tetra Pak. It is used for 236-mL packages.
March 31, 2000
Closures
Pints sprout spouts
Pleased with consumer response to threaded, recloseable pour spouts on its 1/2-gal gabletop packages, Johanna Foods has extended its use of the spout to pint-sized cartons for six juice products.
March 31, 2000
Digital Transformation
Will e-commerce help or hurt distributors and sales agents?
That’s still a question because readers were sharply divided on the effect e-commerce will have on packaging distributors or sales agents. Survey of purchasing readers in January reports wide range of opinions.
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Welch Foods launches coated PET bottle
Coated monolayer PET bottles are replacing glass for 16-juice drinks, juice cocktails and 100% juices. FDA-approved coating is said to cost less than multilayer barrier bottles. The heat-set PET bottles will be sold in vending and C-store channels nationwide.
February 29, 2000
Converting equipment
FruitWorks roll in custom PET
In testing in Baltimore and Hawaii since 1997, FruitWorks from Purchase, NY-based Pepsi-Cola is expected to complete its national rollout in the first quarter of this year.
February 29, 2000
Sustainability
Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards
From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.
January 31, 2000
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New design for Tang energizes, refreshes
New graphics for Tang orange powdered breakfast drink, from Kraft Foods, build on the brand’s iconic reputation as the astronauts’ drink of choice while giving it a new relevance geared toward a new generation of fans.
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