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Conveying & accumulation
Slaking a thirst for real-time data
Ocean Spray's new Nevada plant just outside Las Vegas boasts the latest in on-line data acquisition and communications systems. Can/glass line is a good example.
July 31, 1995

Juice: Page 41

Beverage
Paperboard firsts
C & V Zuegg, a producer of fruit juices and jams based in Verona, Italy, became the first company to use the Brick Carrier(TM) developed by Riverwood (Atlanta, GA).
July 31, 1995
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Flexibles
Naphthalate-based bottles beckon
High-performance bottles made of PEN homopolymer or naphthalate-based copolyesters are beginning to find their way out of technical conferences and onto store shelves around the globe.
June 30, 1995
While the returnable/refillable Bonaqua bottle is made from costly PEN homopolymer, the other two bottles shown here are made fr
Sustainable Packaging
Forum seeks to answer, 'Is recycling enough?'
Or to put it another way, is there a limit to how much waste can be recycled?
June 30, 1995
Flexibles
High-performance polyesters
HiPERTUF(TM) polyester resins from Shell Chemical (Akron, OH) are homopolymer 2ƾ dimethyl naphthalate-based polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), which provide a number of benefits over PET, including hotter fill temperatures, better chemical resistance, and improved gas and UV barriers.
May 31, 1995
Flexible packaging
Pouches, vf/f/s system add sizzle to sauce sales
Vf/f/s system helps Fontina Foods increase sales threefold and expand its product line for foodservice/institutional customers. Eight-month equipment payback is projected due to selling product in flexible pouches rather than HDPE pails.
May 31, 1995
A customized vf/f/s system (top) produces pouches holding liquids as thin as water to sauces laden with particulates as shown ab
Sustainability
FDA plans to speed approval for PCR use
Packagers are delighted with what they've heard about new post-consumer plastic resin rules expected this fall. Data requirements will be clearer and more specific so retesting will be minimized.
May 31, 1995
At Johnson Controls' recycling plant at Novi, MI, incoming PET bottles are debagged and fed into the company's process that prod
Conveying & accumulation
Arcadia takes major step in production
Juice and drink bottler upgrades case packing for high output, even outstripping what its palletizer can handle. A new palletizer is on the list; so is improved bottle feeding.
April 30, 1995
In the packer, four jugs are being pushed onto the case blank before it?s folded and glued
Flexibles
Juiced up packaging
Chiquita tests SiOx-coated board and a brand new gabletop carton size. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola Foods says goodbye to Minute Maid's basic black, redesigns Hi-C and launches a novel 7.7-oz aluminum can.
March 31, 1995
Graphics have been redesigned for all Minute Maid packages
Secondary Packaging
Mexican juices packed to U.S. standards
Tray packs of cans and bottles wrapped in shrink film allow Jugos del Valle to compete both in Mexico and in the post-NAFTA U.S. markets.
February 28, 1995
At Jugos? Mexico City plant, overwrapped trays of glass bottles of juices (above) are being produced at the bottling line?s sp
Conveying & accumulation
Squeezing out productivity
An adjustable guiderail system allows juice producer Hansen's Juices to maximize output, minimize downtime. Sizing up and down lets line focus on "just-in-time" technology.
January 31, 1995
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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Tf/f/s for beverages
Hassia (Somerville, NJ) now offers hot fill or aseptic deep draw tf/f/s equipment for noncarbonated juices, milk drinks, flavored waters, iced teas, and coffees.
December 31, 1994
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Beverage
Candy packages get bitter response
Mars Inc., McLean, VA, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in early December seeking an order that bars E.J. Brach Corp., Chicago, IL, from selling Brach's redesigned package of Fruit Bunch® candy that bears a close resemblance to Mars' Starburst® fruit chews candy.
December 31, 1994
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