Secondary Packaging

Handled with care

Molded corner cushions ensure painter Thomas Kinkade's prints are delivered undamaged. The new system saves Media Arts Group money, time and space.

September 30, 1999

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Cartoning

Packaging marketplaces take center stage

This year will be recorded as the year of the Internet "packaging auction gold rush." Auction--and classifieds--Web sites are popping up faster than you can say "network protocol" in the great race to establish Internet-based marketplaces for selling packaging equipment and materials.

September 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Marking for the millennium

Y2K compliance, cost cuts and improved print quality top the list of reasons why a Kentucky soft drink bottler changed to a new coding system for its glass bottles.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Keebler trumpets 'hand puppet' pouch

Last month, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler Co. introduced stand-up contour pouches for its new 7-oz Elf® Grahams snacks. The pouches are meant to be used as hand puppets after the product is consumed.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Kellogg cereal in linerless gabletop carton

In recent years, cereal marketers have turned to flexible pouches and bags to differentiate their products from traditional bag-in-box offerings. Kellogg, however, took a different tack in introducing Special K Plus(TM).

September 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

1999 inductees into the PEF Hall of Fame

Newly elected to the Packaging Education Forum's Packaging Hall of Fame are three inductees selected from 20 candidates submitted earlier this year.

September 30, 1999

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Kraft executes sly redesign

The packaging for Kraft's Cracker Barrel® 10-oz cheese blocks underwent a significant change a year ago, but Kraft is hoping consumers won't notice.

September 30, 1999

Closures

Anheuser-Busch recalls European beer in glass

The nation's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch, last month recalled nearly six million bottles of beer in 12 European countries because of safety concerns.

September 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Custom bottle 'juices' Odwalla

Last month, beverage marketer Odwalla, Inc. introduced a custom-designed bottle for its 450-mL and 325-mL refrigerated juices that it says extends shelf life by 40% compared to a previous bottle.

September 30, 1999

Filling/capping, dry

AMS Filling System Inc: Multihead Filler

The A-610 multihead filler from AMS (Malvern, PA) fills rigid containers with virtually any dry or liquid products at speeds to more than 50 cpm. With memory storage for 54 products, the PLC-controlled machine offers optional bulk-and-dribble operation, bottom-up filling, and vibration to settle product in containers.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Productivity in packaging continues to gain

A survey of manufacturers by PMMI shows nearly uniform gains in productivity from 1997 to 1998. Makers of chemical products represent the only segment where gains are not reported across the board.

August 31, 1999

Sustainability

Putting a labeler to the test

Test kit maker Artel uses a new labeler to speed production and meet FDA standards.

August 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Packagers appear prepared for Y2K

Confidential survey of readers identifies some problems, but assures that fixes have been offered. Performance guarantees are few and far between.

August 31, 1999