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Secondary Packaging
Packaging for a creamy candy
Nabisco of Parsippany, NJ, recent-ly introduced Lifesavers Creme Savers®, which it calls "the first dairy-based hard candy from Lifesavers that blends real cream with classic flavors." Nabisco marketers wanted to make sure that graphics on the roll candy's overwrap had a "creamy," three-dimensional quality that would make the candy stand out on the package.
January 31, 1999

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Additives, coatings & inks
Clinton serves up food safety
Food companies seem likely to face tighter scrutiny of how packaging is stored and used under proposals. New EPA testing could finger some materials.
December 31, 1998
General Mills, the manufacturer of Betty Crocker bakery mixes, has already voluntarily adopted a hazard analysis (HACCP) progra
Sustainability
Meadow Gold milks coding machinery
It wasn't too long ago that a one-line, 12-digit code was all that Southern Foods was able to hot-stamp onto its one-gal, high-density polyethylene jugs of Meadow Gold-brand milk.
December 31, 1998
The ink-jet code applied in-line (below and inset) to the shoulder of milk jugs makes it easy for retail store employees and con
Dairy
Supplier news: Achievements
Bomatic, Inc. (Ontario, CA) has received an IMS Certification in PET packaging to supply the milk industry.-ISO 9001 certification: Dynaroll Inc. (San Fernando, CA); Weber Marking Systems, Inc.
December 31, 1998
Flexibles
Dairy bottle blocks light?
In unveiling last month a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate for 16-oz milk, Dallas-based Schepps Dairy was not the first to put fresh, refrigerated milk in PET (see Packaging World, November '97, p.
December 31, 1998
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Global regs a trade threat?
Proposals for new international requirements on biotech-enhanced products pose a significant threat to global trade in food, beverages and other consumer products, warns the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA).
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Ice cream maker melts label inventory
Nutrition labeling requirements threatened to throw a real wrench in the works at one family-owned dairy. Thermal-transfer printing on-site was the answer.
November 30, 1998
Variable information is printed as needed by the thermal-transfer printer (above). Charlap?s uses one size label for quarts and
Palletizing/depalletizing
'Combo' pack puts Tropical Cheese at ease
Checkweigher and metal detector combine to reduce giveaway and help enhance quality control for this maker of natural cheeses marketed to retail and foodservice accounts.
November 30, 1998
With its new checkweighing prowess, Tropical Cheese now checks each vacuum-packed cheese pack, such as those shown here. In all,
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Creative compensation keeps packaging people
To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor
November 30, 1998
To attract and keep talent like Herman Poon, vice president of business development, bottled water startup Natural Glacial Water
Closures
Dairy debuts an ESL 'first'
Extended-shelf-life milk in gabletop cartons offering 60-day shelf life has been a proven pack- aging format for years. With the recent launch of its Moovers(TM) brand, Smith Dairy Products of Orrville, OH, wants to offer the same 60-day refrigerated shelf life for milk in bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate.
November 30, 1998
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Recycling
Dean 'Chugs' along at Pack Expo 98
Overall attendance at November's Pack Expo reached 78괡, setting a new record. That figure is even more impressive considering that the number of international attendees reportedly declined by nearly 3%, presumably due in part to economic difficulties in Asia.
November 30, 1998
Containers
Sam's Club product labels turn private
Long known for presenting national-brand merchandise, Wal-Mart's Sam's Club introduces new private-label Member's Mark line, in everything from soup to jeans.
October 31, 1998
New packages bearing the Member?s Mark logo have been available for several months. Many of the early packages use flexible ma
Converting equipment
Welch's 'concentrates' on plastic can
Under development for nearly eight years, an all-plastic, easy-open, microwavable canister is now appearing in East Coast freezer cases holding several varieties of frozen juice concentrates for Welch's, Concord, MA.
October 31, 1998
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