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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
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Beverage
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Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
No cheesy packaging redesign
For three decades, Bongards’ Creameries has used the same logo, design, color, and tagline to decorate its packs of cheese, butter, and whey products. To help revitalize and freshen its look, Bongards’ contacted Compass Design (Minneapolis, MN).
January 31, 2002
Dairy: Page 71
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Rules & Regs: EU proposed mandatory allergen labeling
The European Commission has proposed to amend its food labeling rules to require mandatory labeling of allergens including cereals containing gluten and products based on cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, and products based on crustaceans, egg and egg products, fish and fish products, peanuts and peanut-based products, soya and soya-based products, milk and milk products (including lactose), tree nuts and nut products, sesame seeds and sesame seed products, and sulphite in concentrations of more than 10 mg/kg.
January 31, 2002
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Morningstar Foods: Captive blow molding on ESL dairy line
On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, this is one of two side-by-side coextrusion blow molders from Stork Food & Dairy Systems that produce bottles. Freshly blown bottles are then sent to silos via pneumatic tubes.
December 31, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Morningstar Foods: Unscrambling on an ESL dairy line
On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, an unscrambler uprights bottles that are drawn from three huge storage silos. Later, a system of paddles and chutes turns two lanes into 12 lanes that lead directly into the ESL filling/lidding system from Stork Food & Dairy Systems.
December 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Morningstar Foods: Filling/lidding on ESL dairy line
On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, three sequential stations flood interior and exterior of empty bottles with hydrogen peroxide.
December 31, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Morningstar Foods: Accumulation on ESL dairy line
On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, this pressureless accumulation system from Hartness International provides up to 15 minutes of crucial accumulation time between filling/capping and labeling.
December 31, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Morningstar Foods: Labeling on ESL dairy line
On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, labels are cut from rolls and placed over the bottles by shrink sleeve labelers from American Fuji Seal, just ahead of a shrink tunnel.
December 31, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Labeling room
On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, PET bottles are uprighted by a Pace Packaging unscrambler and sent through a roll-fed labeler from Trine Labeling Systems. Labeled bottles are then elevated up and conveyed out of the labeling room.
December 31, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Filling/capping
On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, the 28-head rotary filler from Federal Mfg., which features a computerized clean-in-place system, is followed by a 12-head rotary capper from Portola Packaging.
December 31, 2001
Reusable/Returnable
Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Drop packer
On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, filled, capped, and labeled, bottles are drop-packed into reusable plastic crates.
December 31, 2001
Closures
Parkay spreads into kids' bottles
Kid-friendly bottles are made of a custom HDPE/LDPE blend for squeezability and feature a portion-control dispensing closure.
December 31, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
HBA filler's range speaks volumes
A ‘showcase’ 18-station filler at Stanford Personal Care fills products from watery to pastes at a rate of 180/min with an accuracy of 0.3%. See in-plant video
December 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Stretching the limits of aseptic packaging
Low-acid dairy products aseptically packaged in plastic bottles are common in Europe. Will Morningstar bring such technology to the U.S? See in-plant video
December 31, 2001
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