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Confection/Candy

Topps bubbles over Bazooka wrapper redesign

The Topps Co. unveiled a new wrapper for its 5¢ Bazooka bubble gum piece for the first time since the venerable product was introduced in 1946. The NY-based marketer has updated the familiar red, white and blue wrapper with a large pink bubble in the center.

November 30, 1995

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Fresh milk flirts with 'value added' packaging

Extrusion blown of LDPE and topped with a unique closure injection molded of the same material, this new package could give milk a whole new single-serve image.

November 30, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Shrink wrap system provides big retail thrust

A shrink wrapper overcomes heat and packing obstacles to bundle two 24-count trays of mr. big candy bars, enabling Neilson Cadbury to satisfy Canada's retailer demand for a 48-count pack.

October 31, 1995

Flexibles

Bags use holograms to promote candy characters

"Sparkling hologram bags that practically glow on the shelf to catch shoppers' attention." That's how Brach & Brock Confections describes the packaging for its new Street Sharks Gummy Candies and Batman & Robin Fruit Snacks and Gummy Candy.

October 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Programmable limit switch

The new PLS 800 programmable limit switch from Candy Controls (Niles, IL) offers eight-function output, programmable zero offset, absolute on/off, start/stop or dwell anywhere from 0 to 359° in a machine cycle, and a programmable production rate indicator.

September 30, 1995

Secondary Packaging

Rollers stabilize stretch wrapping

Contoured plastic rollers allow a film carriage to smoothly ascend and descend during stretch wrapping. OEM component helps packagers like Farley Candy wrap loads more efficiently.

September 30, 1995

Flow wrapping

Chewing up market share (sidebar)

Lasers sweeten coding for gum packs

September 30, 1995

Converting equipment

Brach's bags a winner with nine-color candy graphics

A 10-station gravure press lets Morrill Press print in nine colors, then laminate that structure to a sealant layer in-line on a single pass for Brach & Brock Confections' chocolate-covered raisins.

August 31, 1995

Beverage

Environment-influenced packaging: It ain't over yet (sidebar)

Companies big and small

August 31, 1995

Closures

Andes Candies does the twist

By October 1, Delavan, WI-based Andes Candies will begin shipping two seasonal "crystal twist packs," one containing a red silk rose and candy wrapped in red foil for Valentine's Day; the other a silk tulip with assorted color wraps for Easter.

August 31, 1995

Secondary Packaging

Case packer

The Econoline MGC-E case packer from Blueprint Automation (Richmond, VA) packs 1-oz to 10-lb bags into cases at speeds to 90/min. Designed for short production runs, changeovers take only two min.

July 31, 1995

Case erect/seal

Printing, cold sealing sweeten converter's outlook

American Packaging's $17 million plant expansion/modernization includes an 11-station gravure press that applies cold adhesive in register in line.

July 31, 1995