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Beverage
BATF wants the whole bottle
Distillers applying to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) for approval of a liquor bottle that has the label etched, painted onto or embossed directly on the container must submit a filled bottle along with their label application.
August 31, 2000

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Sourcing globally, clicking locally
The Body Shop pares down on time needed to research containers by tapping into a global, multivendor online stock container catalog.
August 31, 2000
Convenient containers: Scouring the globe with a few mouse clicks led to the right packaging ensemble.
Beverage
Preserving collaboration in the age of e-procurement
How General Mills intends to tap Empriva to gain efficiencies while increasing speed to market.
August 31, 2000
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Merit re-tools for a global marketplace
This medical device maker says goodbye to extra labels and replaces them with on-line, thermal-transfer printing on lidding material. Print now includes important symbols required by customers overseas.
August 31, 2000
Merit Medical Systems can now put a wealth of information on its packages, and it can do it all on-line.
Case erect/seal
PEF Hall of Fame inductees
Announced in mid-August, three career professionals will be inducted into the PEF Hall of Fame on November 11: Robert S. Forsyth; William C. Heller, Jr; and John M. Johnston.
July 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Appointments, promotions
Inland Paperboard and Packaging, Inc. (Austin, TX): Dale E. Stahl, president, COO.
July 31, 2000
Flexibles
Mead products use gravure printed film
The latest additions to Mead Johnson Nutritional’s Viactiv® nutrition supplement line are Spritzers in 8-oz glass and Energy Fruit Smoothies in 8-oz aluminum cans.
July 31, 2000
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Beverage
Cocktails reposition into ergonomic bottles
In mid-June, United Distillers & Vintners-Northeast relaunched T.G.I. Friday's™ cocktails in PET and glass bottles designed with an eye toward the ladies.
June 30, 2000
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Converting equipment
Appointments, promotions
Alvey Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, MO): Douglas M. Westerman, dir., Central Region; Bruce Bleikamp, account mgr., Major Account Development; Steven Cohron, account mgr., Major Account Development; Hank Kirk, account mgr., Major Account Development.
June 30, 2000
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Kringle tray's a sweet success (sidebar)
Corrugated thermoforming goes commercial
June 30, 2000
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Right as rain
To communicate Rain Vodka’s natural organic grain and premium quality, Spar Inc. (New Orleans, LA) redesigned the spirit’s bottle to resemble a clear, pure raindrop.
May 31, 2000
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Beverage
Appointments, promotions
Krones Inc. (Franklin, WI): Bernhard Baumgartner, president, CEO; Ronald Wallner, vp, COO; Rick Niespodziani, vp, service; Rob Hoskins, mgr., regional sales; Gary Burnside, mgr., regional sales; Pat Carroll, mgr., regional sales.
May 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Baxter Labs helps develop validatable pouch sealers
Spurred by ISO requirements, Baxter’s CardioVascular Group works with OEM to develop more consistent, validatable heat sealers for medical device pouches.
May 31, 2000
A worker at a Baxter Healthcare plant in Irvine, CA, seals sterile pouches with a band sealer. Close-up of the control panel (to
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