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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Dairy
All-in-one chips-n-dip pack
Early this year, Frito-Lay, Plano, TX, added Ruffles Potato Chips & French Onion Dip in colorful heat-sealed trays to its snack kits line up. The tray contains a prepackaged 1 7/8-oz bag of chips and a 3 5/8-oz dip cup. According to Frito-Lay, the snack kits are designed to fit into busy families' lifestyles, addressing their needs for convenience and portability.
May 31, 2001
Dairy: Page 76
Converting equipment
Dannon fits Frusion with contoured bottle
An easy-to-grip, contoured bottle with a dazzling shrink-sleeve label is pivotal to The Dannon Company's new Frusion fruit 'n' yogurt smoothie. Tarrytown, NY-based Dannon introduced Frusion nationwide in May after successful testing in 7-Eleven convenience stores in New England and southern California.
April 30, 2001
Cartoning
Sliced apples stay fresh for 36 days
Reichel Foods has moved from nacho chips and dip to luncheon meat to PBJ ‘Snax’ to carrots to celery, all in thermoformed trays. Now comes sliced apples with a 36-day refrigerated shelf life.
April 30, 2001
Cartoning
Sliced apples stay fresh for 36 days (sidebar)
Robotics to the rescue
April 30, 2001
Flexible packaging
Heinz speeds oval container to market
Heinz Pet Snacks’ new Savory Bites dog snacks, packed in a tall oval container, epitomize the company’s new speed-to-market initiative.
April 30, 2001
Flexibles
Heinz speeds oval container to market (sidebar)
Heinz ‘Pounces’ on resealable pouch
April 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Wrapper stretches Sargento output
Sargento supplements a well-liked workhorse stretch wrapper with a system that’s 30% faster and also saves on film.
April 30, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Dean Foods pours into extended shelf life
Dean Foods’ National Refrigerated Products Group employs extended shelf life technologies to market new products. New Marie’s Pourables and NesQuik demonstrate this strategy.
April 30, 2001
Flexibles
Costco bags gravure honors
A bag holding 4 lb of four-cheese ravioli was the Best of Show winner in the recent packaging competition sponsored by the Packaging & Label Gravure Assn.
March 31, 2001
Closures
Looney Tunes brand milk
Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes friends are now chilling out in the refrigerated milk department of retail outlets. On March 19, Bravo! Foods, of North Palm Beach, FL, introduced Looney Tunes brand flavored milk in a clear high-density polyethylene bottle that is decorated with a heat-shrink polyvinyl chloride label from Seal-It (Farmingdale, NY).
March 31, 2001
Beverage
Used equipment buyers offer 'suggestions'
Packaging machine buyers sound off about buying used or rebuilt packaging machines. Many say the process needs to resemble how they buy new equipment.
March 31, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Diners find film packs ideal for every meal course
From soups and salads to poultry, foods of all types become winners at the market—and in the 2000 Flexible Packaging Assn. competition.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Amboy touts single-serve cheese
Amboy Specialty Foods’ Poucheze is a 3-oz shelf-stable pouch of pourable cheese that provides a foodservice alternative to single-serve cups, larger pouches or #10 cans.
February 28, 2001
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