Conveying & accumulation

Jar line is a royal flush

Universal Foods' Red Star Yeast Div. boosts production five-fold with a new jar line. Nitrogen flushing consistently reduces headspace oxygen below 1%.

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Conveying & accumulation

Jar line is a royal flush (sidebar)

Drop packer provides smooth operation

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Packaging World's experts

The following list of packaging professionals, human resources officers, recruiters and industry observers are the people who made possible our special report on The Staffing Struggle.

October 31, 1998

Tamper-evident machinery

Lilly likes PEN for veterinary product

A new treatment for respiratory problems in pigs and chickens is administered in the field, where the breakability of glass packaging is a concern. A homopolymer PEN bottle provides a shatter-resistant answer and delivers all the shelf life needed.

October 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

October 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Honey shows off in clear PET

Burleson overcomes technical and cost hurdles to become one of the first honey marketers to use PET containers. Now in development is a PET jar for foodservice holding 5 lb of honey.

October 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Packaging keeps evolving...from able, to active, to anticipating

Are you evolved?

October 31, 1998

Flexibles

Employee retention through TLC

Want to keep packaging professionals from seeking opportunities elsewhere? Demonstrate clearly how much you want them in your 'career tent.'

October 31, 1998

Dairy

Supplier news: International agreements

A mutually exclusive agreement signed by Twinpak's (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) dairy and food packaging group and RPC Bebo Plastik GmbH (Bremervorde, Germany) grants both parties access to the other's marketing and technology rights for their own market regions.

October 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Veryfine grabs for added sales with new bottles

The latest hot-filled plastic bottle from Veryfine has a unique grip molded into the sidewalls just above the top of the colorful full-wrap film label.

October 31, 1998

Closures

Palm Beach style for every consumer

Lake Success, NY-based Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, makers of AriZona beverages, is introducing a new malt liquor product called Palm Beach. The two cocktail-style drink flavors, Margarita and Cosmopolitan, are in frosted-glass, flask-style bottles.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Coke promotion shifts into high gear

Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is revving up for the NASCAR auto racing season with a series of nine commemorative 8-oz glass bottles. Eight of the bottles feature heat-transfer decorating bearing the face of the Coca-Cola Family drivers.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

A beer for all seasons

What would the changing seasons be without packaging that reflects and celebrates the change?

October 31, 1998