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

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Beverage

Career selling collides with lack of organization

The June '99 Packaging Education Summit was so rich in content and ideas that all year could be spent examining proposals that might have merit. Last month, individuals in our packaging community were encouraged to look at ways they could improve education in their local communities.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Y2K fever makes bulk foods sales sizzle

For the millions of people worried about the new millennium, timing is everything. The race is on to obtain bulk foods packaged with oxygen absorbers.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Label 'Performs' for PowerBar

With its February introduction of Perform(TM), PowerBar Inc. believes it has an attention-grabbing package that will stand out from the competition. Clad in a striking label, the bottle is also uniquely tactile.

August 31, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Solutions 99 conference focuses on emerging technologies

Solutions 99 is the educational conference that will be part of Pack Expo Las Vegas, Oct. 18 to 20. Three mornings of seminars feature the latest topics in packaging. Pre-registration deadlines for the conference and for the show are Sept. 27.

August 31, 1999

Flexibles

How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)

Enhancing package appeal

August 31, 1999

Flexibles

How European culture drives packaging

The Intl. Steel Packaging Congress 1999, held during interpack 99, illuminated ideas for European manufacturers at the turn of the century. Many points will resound also in the U.S.

August 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Debating the future of packaging machine control

PC vs PLC -- Six packaging machinery builders debate the pros and cons of controlling packaging machinery with either computers or programmable logic controllers.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Packaging Education Forum (Herndon, VA): James E. Scott, president.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Wrapper automatically bales hay for export

For the first time in the hay industry, an export company uses an automatic stretch wrapper to prepare its hay bales for shipment overseas.

August 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Lemonade launch refreshed by innovative packaging

In launching the first major ReaLemon Brand® extension in 65-years, package designers at Eagle Family Foods brought plenty of creativity to the first shelf-stable lemonade concentrate.

August 31, 1999

Closures

French juice marketer first to use reclosable cap

French juice marketer Les Vergers D'Alsace is the first to use the new resealable and tamper-evident opening device for aseptic brick packs from Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL) called the SpinCap.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Crooked River Brewing Co. (Cleveland, OH) has acquired Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co.'s beer div. (Cincinnati, OH).

August 31, 1999