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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Dairy: Page 82
Dairy
Pushing meals to market
Breakaway Foods™ is touting its new line of paperboard cylinder-packed IncrEdibles™ portable meals as “a revolutionary new way for consumers to enjoy their favorite foods, and the ultimate meal for people on the go.” IncrEdibles are microwaveable meals packaged in a printed, spiral-wound paperboard cylinder that becomes a “self-server,” according to the company, when consumers push up a plastic stick that’s inserted into the cylinder’s bottom.
December 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
NesQuik and Gatorade shine at DrinkPak '99
Aseptic filling of Nestle U.S.A.'s NesQuik and Quaker Oats' Gatorade were two of the hot topics on the agenda at this December conference.
December 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Pizza Hut serves 'Wrappies' with breakfast sandwiches
To better contain its breakfast sandwiches and make them easier to eat, Pizza Hut Express employs an unusual 'Wrappie.'
November 30, 1999
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Service opportunities abound in foodservice
But it's also evident even in more expensive establishments. My wife and I have been disappointed for a wide variety of reasons, often because the restaurant didn't have the meal that we ordered from the menu.
November 30, 1999
Dairy
Supplier news: International agreements
Dairy Farmers of America (Kansas City, MO) and Stork Food & Dairy Systems, Inc. (Gainesville, GA) have formed Asep-Tech USA LLC, a joint venture created to develop processing and packaging technology for all types of products and containers in plastic and other materials.
November 30, 1999
Secondary Packaging
Labeler minimizes downtime at bundler
Dairy Crest of Gloucestershire, England, is the first to install a Harland Zeta thermal-print-and-apply labeler from Harland Machine Systems (Manchester, England).
November 30, 1999
Tamper-evident machinery
Smooth sealing of fruit smoothie base
When J.R. Wood Co. landed a contract to fill a fruit smoothie concentrate for a large convenience-store chain, management decided the best way to assure seal integrity and tamper evidence was through an induction-sealed foil membrane.
November 30, 1999
Converting equipment
Quality Dairy 'pops' with integral straw
By next spring, Quality Dairy Co. expects to be the first company to sell beverages in bottles equipped with an integral flexible straw that pops up and partially out of the bottle when its closure is removed.
November 30, 1999
Beverage
Beverage containers to exceed 217 billion in 2003
According to a recent study from The Freedonia Group (Cleveland, OH), demand for beverage containers is projected to advance at an annual pace of 2.2% through 2003, reaching 217 billion units.
November 30, 1999
Tamper-evident machinery
Nestle tests novel can technology in Brazil
An easy-to-open vacuum lid means no tools are needed to open this three-piece steel can. Once the can is opened, no rough edges threaten the fingers.
October 31, 1999
Flexibles
Aseptic filling sans sterilants
When a Colombian beverage marketer became the first to produce a packaged version of the popular Avena drink, the company used aseptic technology that was simple and secure.
October 31, 1999
Sustainability
Is recycling sacred in California?
If you've read through Michele Raymond's report on the upcoming battle over plastic containers and recycling in California (see p. 44), you recognize you're reading a piece that originates from someone with a pro-recycling bias.
October 31, 1999
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