Labels

UF juiced for R&D (sidebar)

UF’s RFID portals proliferateSee video

June 30, 2004

Fruits/Vegetables: Page 19

Beverage

Decorative tin

U.S. Can has released its only wine-themed decorative tin, “Salud.” Measuring 65?8”x113?16”, the tin is offset printed with images of wine glasses and grapes, in addition to scripted lists of different wine types.

May 31, 2004

Closures

Fruit jars stand up, stand out

Signature Fruit works with blow molder to develop a wide-mouth plastic jar that withstands pasteurization for packing premium California fruit.

April 30, 2004

Fruits/Vegetables

How does that work?

The www.howstuffworks.com Web site is both interesting and informative, and it offers packaging information.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Royal label redesign

Indiana-based Oliver Winery recently hired Flowdesign to redesign two of the labels for its best selling wine products. Both wines use newly designed bottles topped with decorated corks that are seen through the clear glass.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Royal label redesign

Indiana-based Oliver Winery recently hired [b]Flowdesign[n] to redesign two of the labels for its best selling wine products.

December 31, 2003

Labels

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group. The glass bottles are wrapped from head to toe in a “lively and festive” shrink label.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Wireless ink-jet coding

A switch from hand-applied, preprinted labels on corrugated shippers to large-character ink-jet printing is reducing labor costs and improving security measures at the Great Northern Wholeaves operation of produce grower/marketer Mills Inc.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group.

November 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label foods for choking risks

The Food Choking Prevention Act introduced by Reps. Mike Honda (D-CA) and Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) encourages FDA to develop food-labeling regulations for products that pose a choking hazard for young children.

July 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Pouched onions prosper under high-pressure water

A system that uses high-pressure water to kill food pathogens helped Winsoms of Walla Walla launch 8-oz and 2 1/2-lb resealable pouches of refrigerated, chopped onions to the Pacific Northwest this month, with nationwide distribution expected by next year.

July 31, 2003

Flexibles

Q&A: The Supermarket Guru on packaging

Author of five books and the Food Trends Correspondent for NBC’s TODAY Show, Phil Lempert heads SupermarketGuru.com and is editor of the Lempert Report. He shares his views of packaging’s impact on supermarkets—and vice versa.

June 30, 2003

Beverage

Sometimes low tech is tech enough

To salvage existing equipment, winery finds unique solution to capsule wrinkles—by turning a conveyor on end.

March 31, 2003