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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Beverage
Veryfine launches a 'Loud Mouth'
Looking to emulate a recent innovation popular in beer cans, Westford, MA-based Veryfine Products in September began shipping its 18 varieties of Veryfine and Chillers brands with a large-opening end (LOE).
October 31, 1997
Juice: Page 35
Closures
Closure for juice
Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) has introduced a linerless TE closure with modified buttress unscrewed threads for juice applications. The 43 mm TI-2000 closure features an integral folding bead seal that provides a resilient "gasket" for more secure sealing.
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
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA wants fresh juice warning labels
Continuing its campaign to upgrade food safety in the wake of well-publicized incidences of foodborne illnesses, the Food and Drug Administration has asked juice manufacturers to voluntarily put warning labels on unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juices until formal labeling rules can be developed.
September 30, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Ball inspects becausePepsi expects quality
On-line machine vision system helps Ball's Chino, CA, plant deliver high volumes of PET bottles to Pepsi-Cola's California bottlers.
August 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Machinery receives 'heavy' emphasis at Pack Expo West (sidebar)
Learning in Las Vegas
August 31, 1997
Beverage
Bright future for PET?
At a July 3 shareholders' meeting of Schmalbach-Lubecha AG (Ratingen, Germany) in Dsseldorf, CEO Hanno C. Fiedler observed that the improved barrier properties of PET packaging will make PET ever more popular as the material for containers of mineral water and other sensitive food products such as fruit juices and baby food.
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
Cryogenic cooling of heat-set PET awaits patents
The technology's not commercial yet, and it certainly has its skeptics. Test results show that thermal and barrier properties are enhanced significantly by blowing PET into heated molds and cooling with LN2 delivered by a unique new system.
July 31, 1997
Sustainability
KFC tests new meal plate
An ongoing test at select Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets will soon determine if a plated meal package for single servings should be adopted throughout the Louisville, KY-based KFC chain.
July 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Pouch brings fruit smoothies to the supermarket
Houston-based Tropeak® is banking on a stand-up pouch with zipper reclosure to make Smoothy fruit drinks an everyday beverage in homes across America.
July 31, 1997
Beverage
Dairy, juice products come up short
U.S. packagers of fluid milk, juice, yogurt and cottage cheese can expect more unannounced inspections from federal and state agencies seeking underfilled products.
July 31, 1997
Sustainability
Recycled content: Is the loop broken?
Part two of our exclusive look at recycled-content plastic packaging reports how some packagers justify using recycled resin, even in down markets. Plus, evidence that the "closing the loop" issue won't go away soon.
June 30, 1997
Labels
Shaking things up at Snapple
"A package that meets the targeted consumer's needs" is how Snapple marketing manager Sylvia Oriatti describes the new Snapple Squeeze line of juice drinks in 20-oz bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate.
June 30, 1997
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Products
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.
Minute Maid squeezable 'fruit morning' pouch
Portola Packaging, Inc: Linerless closure for aseptic beverage packages
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