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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Labeling
Labeling updates
Following is a brief wrap-up of recent labeling-related news: * FDA has established January 1, 2000, as the single effective date for required label changes issued during 1997.
March 31, 1997
Dairy: Page 96
Conveying & accumulation
El Jawhara bags snacks in burgeoning Egyptian market
Bagging equipment helps El Jawhara develop a strong presence in Egypt's rapidly growing snack food market. The equipment is expected to provide a three- to four-year payback by economically producing high volumes of bagged snacks.
March 31, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Machine technology that slashes changeover
In this second report from our survey of changeover trends, readers describe how new equipment technology like control programming and tool-free adjustments helps them attack downtime.
March 31, 1997
Controls & machine components
Sensor controller
The PLATO sensor controller from Entry Technology (Cream Ridge, NJ) can be used with sensor-based inspection systems to provide quality assurance on packaging lines.
February 28, 1997
Flexible packaging
Foods fit fine in flexibles
Half of the 12 winners in this year's FPA awards competition for excellence in flexible packaging are food packages. A broad range of food categories are represented.
February 28, 1997
Dairy
No uniformity in changeover demands (sidebar)
Changeover not critical to some
February 28, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
PP/polyester film
Q-PET(TM) is a patent-pending coextruded multilayer film with a core layer of PP and surface layers of polyester. This offers users a significant cost reduction over traditional PP, says the company.
January 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
On-line case printing supports ECR at Borden
In addition to simplified inventory, faster changeovers, and material cost savings, on-line case coding at six Borden plants means faster response to customer needs.
January 31, 1997
Closures
Spouted cartons extend milk's shelf life
Alta Dena® Certified Dairy is one of the first U.S. dairies to use SPOUT-PAK® spouted paperboard gabletop cartons from International Paper (Memphis, TN).
January 31, 1997
Dairy
Neckband doubles as UPC label for milk
When Floresville, TX-based Promised Land Dairy debuted its all-natural flavored milks in old-style glass jars about a year ago, management elected to use a single universal glass bottle for quarts and another for half-gallons.
January 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Oscar Mayer rolls out lunch pack for adults
Since 1988, says Oscar Mayer, more than one billion prepackaged Lunchables®-brand lunch combinations have been consumed. Based on that product's success with kids, the Madison, WI, Kraft Foods division introduced in November Lunchables Deli-Carryouts(TM) sandwich combinations for adults.
January 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Skimming fat, not nutrients
FDA has issued new rules on milk labeling designed to eliminate consumer confusion about the fat content of milk and milk products. Until now, milk was not held to the same nutrition labeling standards as other products on the use of terms like "low fat." As a result, many consumers believed skim milk contained fewer nutrients than other types, and that 2% milk was low fat.
December 31, 1996
Flexibles
Patent infringement suit judgment expected soon
As Packaging World goes to press, a U.S. Federal District Court judge in Chicago had yet to make a final decision concerning the dollar amount awarded to Viskase (Bedford Park, IL).
December 31, 1996
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