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

Vf/f/s percolates at S&D Coffee

To meet the growing sales demands of its foodservice and institutional customers, this Concord, NC, roaster fills ground coffee into a paper filter bag then overwraps between one and five bags in plastic film on the same machine. Strong sales help S&D reap a six-month payback on the unusual machine.

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Supplier news: International agreements

Testing Machines Inc. (Islandia, NY) has been licensed to manufacture and sell three instruments developed by Amcor Research and Technology Center, a part of Amcor Ltd.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

For Arizona, packaging is the medium and message

The secret behind a series of drop-dead gorgeous packages? Packaging decisions are made at the highest levels of a company that's willing to spend big.

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Beverage

Bringing shaped containers to new heights

Sold only in New Hampshire, an intriguing glass bottle for gin, vodka and rum sold by Jenkins Spirits, Londonderry, NH, is shaped like the state itself, as is the label.

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Sustainability

Treated paper focuses on foodservice

Treated paperboard containers provide grease resistance and reduce material use and costs for pizza and breadsticks.

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Beverage

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

National Instrument Co., Inc. (Baltimore, MD): Daniel J. Markiewicz, vp, sales and mktg.

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Converting equipment

HDPE-based Tropicana bottles project fresh, 'local dairy' image

In the first stage of a national roll-out, coextrusion blow-molded bottles for Tropicana FruitWise smoothies are finding a place in the refrigerated cases of supermarkets in Cleveland and several other markets.

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Beverage

Gaining an Urban edge

"The labels are kinda like our minds-always changing." So reads the label of Jones Soda, the latest venture of the Urban Juice and Soda Co.

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Controls & Machine Components

All-Fill Inc: Piston fillers

The Series 505 heavy-duty single-nozzle piston fillers from All-Fill (Creamery, PA) are designed to fill liquids, creams, pastes, gels and other viscous products containing particulate matter up to 4/5" in dia.

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Flexible packaging

Consumers want better packaging

Friends and family who know I have "something to do with" packaging are always asking me to pass on their packaging complaints, observations and requests.

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Flexible packaging

'Alternative' packs milk sales

In an effort to recapture market share lost to rival beverages, milk processors are turning to more contemporary containers-with strong sales results.

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

Britvic banks on being different (sidebar)

McCain tests aseptically filled PET

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Conveying & accumulation

Seagram salutes the end of tweaking

Seagram combines two bottling lines into one medium-speed line for a broad variety of spirits in glass bottles. Quick-change parts for cleaning, filling, capping and conveying equipment reduce downtime and labor costs.

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