Controls & Machine Components

How to maintain servo packaging machines 101

Effective training for automated packaging machinery maintenance is more about mindset than technology.

November 30, 2004

Bakery/Snack: Page 69

Dairy

Nutrient-content label claims

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a final rule permitting nutrient-content claims on labels of multi-service “meal-type” and “main-dish” meat and poultry products.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Delay in seafood COOL

The U.S. Department of Agriculture extended by six months mandatory country-of-origin labeling for fresh and frozen fish and seafood that had been scheduled to take effect in September 2004.

November 30, 2004

Beverage

The latest Hispanic market facts (sidebar)

MarketResearch.com had just released The U.S. Market for Hispanic Food and Beverages, second edition, as this story went to press last month, As expected, the study shows the accelerating strength of the Hispanic market.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Innovations for Food & Beverage: When Innovative Packaging Imitates Life

January 19-20, 2005Radisson Hotel Miami, FLwww.marcusevansbb.com/packaginginnovations

November 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Electronic paperboard blister

MeadWestvaco Healthcare Packaging is licensing technology for printed “paperboard computers” from Sweden’s Cypak AG to develop its new cerepak™ electronic compliance packaging.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004

Workforce

New trend in training machine operators?

Packaging machinery manufacturers are likely to build better equipment if they’re aware of developing trends in how CPG companies are training and positioning those who operate that equipment.

October 31, 2004

Bakery/Snack

Wise introduces healthy snack Choice

Straddling the line between a mainstream snack and a reduced-fat, all-natural product, Wise Choice potato crisps and soy-potato crisps were introduced in August in packaging that appeals specifically to women shoppers.

October 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Sargento dips into snack trays

Sargento Cheese Dips! from Sargento Foods Inc., Plymouth, WI, answer intensifying consumer demand for convenient snack food packaging.

October 31, 2004

Closures

Karo corn syrups pour into PET

Karo corn syrup debuted in 1902 in “friction-top tins,” then was filled into glass bottles for decades. This summer, Karo corn syrup made a bold step into monolayer PET bottles, supplied by Amcor PET Packaging.

October 31, 2004

Labels

Kraft adds more nutrition information

Responding to the Food & Drug Administration’s call for clearer nutrition information on smaller packages, Kraft Foods, Northfield, IL, has announced its answer.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The China Syndrome

In going forward with radio-frequency identification, there are three initials that are fundamental because they encompass all aspects of the challenge.

October 31, 2004