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Beverage
Four elected to Packaging Hall of Fame
Dr. Raymond Bourque, Audrey Marsh King, Stanley Kopecky, and Lawrence Starr will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame during a November 7 awards reception at the Hyatt McCormick Hotel in Chicago. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with Pack Expo International 2004, sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.
July 31, 2004

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Beverage
Training for mechanics, technicians, engineers
Worth noting are upcoming training opportunities and newly developed resources for automation professionals and industrial maintenance mechanics.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
OMAC/WBF update
Ongoing efforts to harmonize the standards being developed by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Batch Forum took a significant step forward at an August 17-18 meeting at Pfizer’s Peapack, NJ, facility.
July 31, 2004
Closures
New PEN bottles in Denmark
Danish Brewery Group (DBG) has launched its Royal Pilsner and Royal Classic beers in new refillable 38-cL bottles of polyethylene napthalate (PEN), made by Rexam Petainer in Lidköping, Sweden.
July 31, 2004
Closures
Closure energizes Olay vitamins
Consumer convenience is behind Pharmavite LLC’s use of Weatherchem’s NutraFlapper® closure for an Olay-brand vitamin supplement line introduced in August ’03.
July 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor
A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.
July 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
House subcommittee passes allergen labeling
The House Subcommittee on Health mirrored action in the Senate by passing legislation requiring food labels to state in clear, plain language if the product contains one or more of the eight major food allergens.
July 31, 2004
Containers
Natural toothpaste moves to recycled tube
Burt’s Bees finds it can shift from aluminum to five-layer coextruded tubes with recycled content, topped with caps using recycled resin, too.
July 31, 2004
Flexible packaging
Cognex: powerful inspection tools for flexible packaging
Cognex machine vision systems locate distorted patterns that are difficult to recognize.
July 31, 2004
Beverage
Miller Brewing extends label pact with NorthStar
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, has extended its contract with NorthStar Print Group, Watertown, WI, under which NorthStar remains Miller’s sole label supplier.
July 31, 2004
Flexibles
McDonald's 'dips' into sliced apple bags
A plastic pouch containing 2.4 oz of ready-to-eat apple slices is part of McDonald’s new New Happy Meal Choices, aimed at providing parents and children with mix-and-match menu options.
July 31, 2004
Dairy
The wrap up: Now that's l-o-n-g shelf life
British archeologists have unearthed an ancient two-piece metal canister that’s believed to hold a beauty ointment that traces back to the Roman period in London, A.D. 43 to 410, according to a recent report in National Geographic.
June 30, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
WBF and OMAC are bringing standards to a line near you
A drug maker’s ability to qualify new equipment could be significantly reduced if committee work now being carried out by the World Batch Forum and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup comes to fruition.
June 30, 2004
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