Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup teams with ISA Food & Pharma Division at Process Control Conference

For the first time, the Instrument Society of America will host an OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup conference track at this year’s ISA Process Control Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, June 5-6, 2003.

April 30, 2003

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Flexibles

Reese's rolls out new look

In March, Hershey Foods reintroduced its Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Reese’s Pieces candies in its first new trade dress in more than 30 years.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

What packagers think about the environment

Respondents to a recent survey on Packworld.com were asked to describe the current attitude at their company with regard to packaging and the environment.

April 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automated Packaging to help homeland security effort

Automated Packaging was chosen by the CDC to provide packaging technologies vital to the rapid deployment initiatives of the CDC's homeland security effort.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Single-handed convenience

One-handed dispensing of coffee creamer is coming to dairy cases across the country as Morningstar Foods, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Dean Foods Co., begins shipping its International Delight brand in PET containers with a custom dispensing closure.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Skippy squeezes into new packs

Unilever Bestfoods’ well-known Skippy brand could redefine the peanut butter category with two stunning new flexible packages.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Unlocking plant-floor packaging data at Unilever

Accurate, timely information on which to make business decisions is already on the packaging floor, according to Unilever’s Andrew McDonald (left), global automation and control manager.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Shaped aluminum bottle energizes Snapple's Elements

Aluminum containers continue to boost the energy drink category. Elements Beverage division of the Snapple Beverage Group, White Plains, NY, is using marketing alchemy to switch bottles of its Elements energy drinks from glass to aluminum.

March 31, 2003

Sustainability

Coca-Cola wins recycling award

Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, received an award for outstanding corporate responsibility for its leadership in using recycled PET resin. The award, from the Plastic Redesign Project, Madison, WI, was presented at a luncheon Feb. 26, at the Take It Back! 2003 conference in Alexandria, VA, sponsored by Raymond Communications (Columbia, MD).

March 31, 2003

Beverage

DUNWOODY STUDENTS AWARDED

The Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis, announced that five of its printing students won top honors in Package Printing magazine’s 2002 Excellence Awards in the secondary school category.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Award-winning design

Nantze Springs won the International Bottled Water Assn.’s Aqua Award for the Best Package Design in the medium company category for its 8.5-oz water bottle design.

March 31, 2003

Beverage

Sometimes low tech is tech enough

To salvage existing equipment, winery finds unique solution to capsule wrinkles—by turning a conveyor on end.

March 31, 2003

Beverage

Start spreading the glues

Miller Brewing efficiently delivers hot-melt glue pellets to multiple glue-dispensing units thanks to an overhead air conveying system.

March 31, 2003