Flexibles

Better pack for Betta Foods

Betta Foods, Australia’s largest manufacturer of ice-cream cones and specialty confectionery products, is introducing a resealable feature on its Natural Real Fruit Flavored Liquorice AllSorts and Liquorice Bullets candy packages.

June 11, 2007

Spirits/liquors: Page 42

Beverage

Coors' label shows beer temperature

A thermochromic label that debuted in May indicates when Coors beer is at the optimal drinking temperature.

June 11, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Baking soda label acts as a freshness timer

WS Packaging Group (www.wspackaging.com) has solved a long-standing consumer conundrum of knowing when to replace the Arm & Hammer-brand Baking Soda refrigerator air filter.

June 11, 2007

Beverage

Abbott Labs wins by flying with JETT

Waunetka A. Clark is the validation program manager of Global Pharmaceutical Operations, GPO Division Validation, Abbott Laboratories. Abbott’s Waukegan, IL, facility recently hosted a monthly meeting of the Joint Equipment Transition Team (JETT).

June 11, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Back in the U.S.A.

Drug reimportation legislation seems likely to pass in Congress. It may jumpstart track-and-trace packaging technology.

June 11, 2007

Beverage

India ready for vodka in a sachet?

Not sure if the language is a barrier because the article contains no photo, but Diageo, the world's largest spirits company, plans a new vodka packaging for India that involves convenient user-friendly sachets of 30 and 60 ml.

May 31, 2007

Beverage

South Africa's poor hit with counterfeit food

Poor people in outlying and rural areas of South Africa are seeing a growing number of fake food products.

May 31, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

In Dubai, nearly 200 companies exhibit at Gulf Pack

Billed as the largest Middle East packaging industry trade fair ever, Gulf Pack opened April 2 at the Dubai Airport Expo.

May 31, 2007

Reusable/Returnable

Ecstasy enhanced by unexpected red bottle

Effort and compromise yield distinctive red-tinted bottles for this spirited liqueur.

May 23, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging Automation magazine gets its own website

The popular online magazine gets its own searchable archive site, helping packaging machinery specifiers and builders research innovative, modular machinery and automation trends in the packaging industry

May 21, 2007

Closures

Tequila details push premium perception

Presentation positions Trago squarely within the ultra-premium tequila category.

May 4, 2007

Labels

Top 10 FDA developments

Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging columnist and attorney-at-law Eric F. Greenberg (www.ericfgreenbergpc.com) offered a list of key issues pertaining to healthcare packaging during the Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum (www.packworld.com/ppf), To read the complete story, visit this site.

May 2, 2007

Beverage

Accumulation/conveyor system brings dramatic efficiencies to spirits lines

Video shows the Hartness Dynac conveyor system operating with a variety of liquors and spirits. Brings dramatic improvements to line throughput and product volume while providing first-in/first-out, pressureless product handling and accumulation.

April 26, 2007