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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Additives, coatings & inks
Pepsi 'Storms' Colorado, 'Grips' Dayton
A striking metallized label is helping Pepsi-Cola introduce its new lemon-lime soft drink, Storm(TM), to three Colorado markets-Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
March 31, 1998
Beverage: Page 378
Dairy
Mobius Awards
Best of Show award in the packaging category of the 27th annual Mobius Awards went to Milk Chugs, the single-serve high-density polyethylene bottles created for Dean Foods Co., Franklin Park, IL (see PW, November '97, p.
March 31, 1998
Sustainability
Bass is bullish on beer in plastic
Few brewers have gone as far as Bass in developing a plastic bottle for beer. Now Bass wonders when U.S. brewers will get on board to help drive bottle costs down.
February 28, 1998
Flexibles
Polyester film
Rhodia (Cranbury, NJ) has introduced Terphane® 14.31, a PVOH-coated film for lamination. Applications for the film include lidding for refrigerated and oxygen-sensitive foods such as fresh and processed meats, fresh pasta and cheese.
February 28, 1998
Converting equipment
Olin takes air out of pool chemicals display
A new line of interlocking modular square containers was designed to meet retailers' needs. Design features, some patented, make containers consumer-friendly as well.
February 28, 1998
Labels
A wide-mouth first in PET
Shatter-resistant and lighter than glass, narrow-neck polyethylene terephthalate bottles for hot-filled beverages have enjoyed steady growth lately. But only now is a wide-mouth PET jar for hot-filled food being commercialized as Tree Top Inc.
February 28, 1998
Flexibles
New bottle, label for Mogen David
To broaden the appeal of Mogen David chillable red wines, San Francisco-based The Wine Group chose design firm SBG Enterprise (San Francisco, CA) to update the packaging with a more contemporary look without alienating the product's current loyal following.
February 28, 1998
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Widemouth cups will expand beverage packaging options
We've been looking at the newest generation of Ensure® nutritional supplement packaging and thinking that thermoformed or injection-molded cupsin some advanced stage of developmentcould be beer and carbonated beverage containers (CSDs) in the future.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Bass is bullish on beer in plastic (sidebar)
Dando at Nova-Pack '98
February 28, 1998
Beverage
Shaped cans south of the border
"I have seen shaped cans from Europe and I have never seen anything like this." That's what Lawrence Boro, marketing manager for privately held Grupo Jumex, Xalostoc, near Mexico City, Mexico, says about the company's newest shaped steel three-piece can.
February 28, 1998
Converting equipment
Twister takes a whole new shape
For its Twister brand juice beverage, Tropicana North America has launched a 1.75-L (59.3-oz) heat-set bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate that the Bradenton, FL, firm describes as "the first heat-set, hot-filled (180°+) rectangular PET bottle" for a juice beverage in the U.S.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Drum containment unit
Rand Materials Handling Equipment (Pawtucket, RI) has introduced a 4-Drum Containment Unit with a removable drum pallet that allows the drums to be loaded at floor level and lifted on or off the sump base by a forklift truck.
January 31, 1998
Sustainability
Saving more than just peanuts
Bookstore chain Borders Group moves to a customized loose-fill system for distribution of its products to stores nationwide. Yearly savings are in excess of one million dollars.
January 31, 1998
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Constantia Flexibles, in partnership with Greiner Packaging, has launched a certified home compostable coffee capsule compatible with standard machines for a sustainable solution.
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