Conveying & accumulation

Collating candy at 3,000/min (sidebar)

How digital motion control works

February 28, 1999

Confection/Candy: Page 38

Flexible packaging

HDPE-bottled dairy beverages 'milk' 90-day shelf life

Canadian dairy products marketer Natrel is the first North American user of an ultra-high-temperature processing/aseptic filling line. The process permits Natrel to launch single-serve milks and shakes with a 90-day refrigerated shelf life.

January 31, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Packaging for a creamy candy

Nabisco of Parsippany, NJ, recent-ly introduced Lifesavers Creme Savers®, which it calls "the first dairy-based hard candy from Lifesavers that blends real cream with classic flavors." Nabisco marketers wanted to make sure that graphics on the roll candy's overwrap had a "creamy," three-dimensional quality that would make the candy stand out on the package.

January 31, 1999

Contract Packaging

Shrink band decorates Christmas tree package

Italian chocolate manufacturer Perugina has exported chocolate-covered cherries to the U.S. at Christmas time for several years now. But this year for the first time the Christmas tree-shaped package that holds the foil-wrapped delicacies comes with an added component: a polyvinyl chloride band.

December 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Pressure-sensitive labeler

EPI's (New Freedom, PA) Flex-Pac Labeler(TM) is designed to integrate with Sandiacre packaging equipment used widely in the frozen food, produce and candy markets.

November 30, 1998

Flow wrapping

Software helps Hershey slay downtime

Powerful software allows Hershey to automatically gather packaging efficiency data. Local and remote line control and monitoring are added bonuses.

November 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

North American Automation: Buffer-feeder system

Rotzinger's Mold-to-Wrap confectionery handling system for misshapen molded products, such as chocolate candies, will be on display through North American Automation (Glen Ellyn, IL).

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

Closures

Candy container for captured creatures

Amurol Confections had kid collectors in mind with its Bug City package, a polystyrene jar filled with 2.4 oz of insect-shaped candy tarts. The Bug City product is not new.

October 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Cellulose film is a star

Candy maker Bonbons Napoleon NV has started packaging its sweets in UCB Films' (Smynra, GA) Star-Twist(TM) 315 XC.

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.

September 30, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Bag-in-box success is sweet

Chocolate syrup manufacturer Mont Blanc Chocolatier adapts bag-in-box technology for use in coffeehouses and restaurants. Extended shelf life and shelf stability are said to be industry firsts.

June 30, 1998

Cartoning

Carton takes Chessters to supermarket freezers

Rhino Foods of Burlington, VT, had a nice little business going with Chessters, a frozen chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich named after a Chesapeake Bay retriever.

May 31, 1998