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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Closures
Cap ordering goes electronic
With the proliferation of Web sites devoted to purchasing complex packaging machinery, it seems only natural that buying closures online would be the next step.
March 31, 2000
Dairy: Page 81
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Milk questions soy labeling
The National Milk Producers Federation filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration in February seeking to prohibit soy beverages from being labeled as “milk.” Soy drinks are popping up in dairy cases in packaging that closely resembles milk cartons, and NMPF is trying to protect the distinct identity of its product.
March 31, 2000
Dairy
Frost-bitten graphics
As the official ice cream of the St. Paul, MN, Winter Carnival, Kemps’ Below Zero ice cream needed packaging that would exude chilliness. Compass Design (Minneapolis, MN) used frosty colors like shades of blue, gray and white throughout the packaging.
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Competition touts top tubes
A shave gel tube that doubles as a razor was named the most innovative among the winners of the 1999 Tube of the Year competition sponsored by the Tube Council of North America (New York, NY).
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Streaming videos demo equipment online (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
March 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Dairy coop decides on dual bag
California Dairies Inc. reportedly will be the first commercial user of a dual film bag system. CDI plans to offer the plastic bag as an alternative to multiwall paper bags for milk powders sold to confectioners, bakeries and cheese manufacturers.
February 29, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Dean dips into single-serve cups
Dean Foods creates a new refrigerated foods category with four-packs of 2 3/4-oz chip and vegetable dips marketed in colorful die-cut folding cartons.
February 29, 2000
Sustainability
Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards
From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Evergreen Packaging: Fillers for milk or juice
Two new fillers from Evergreen (Cedar Rapids, IA) package fresh refrigerated milk or juice at speeds to 3ꯠ gabletop cartons/hr. The GTL-1000 (shown) fills 250- to 1걶-mL (8.45- to 38.9-oz) cartons, while the GTN-1000 fills 125- to 500-mL (4.23- to 16.9-oz) cartons.
January 31, 2000
Additives, coatings & inks
FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track'
Agency offers details of new 120-day approval program usable for most—but not all—food-contact substrate materials.
January 31, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packaging for kids at Kellogg and Dannon
When these two food processing powerhouses used existing brands as launch pads for kid-oriented new products, they were highly selective about their choice of containers.
January 31, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Retorted food pouches ready for market push
Knauss and Esskay introduce foods in retorted pouches without foil for retail. StarKist Seafood sells a foil-based pouch of tuna to foodservice accounts. Will others follow suit?
January 31, 2000
Sustainability
Mystery of the missing PMNs
The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are both scratching their figurative heads over packaging suppliers’ apparent hesitancy to use the agency’s new 120-day packaging approval program.
December 31, 1999
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