Containers

Compact baggers pack improvements

World Flavors adds new and refurbished vf/f/s units to replace hand-filling operations and simplify changeovers.

April 30, 2004

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label limbo

Uncertainty over country-of-origin labeling regulations leaves food packagers wondering what’s next.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling updates

Reports on OTC drug labeling, Codex meeting, fighting obesity with labels, and the Senate's passing of an allergen bill.

April 30, 2004

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

User fees

The proposed 2005 federal budget submitted to Congress by the Bush administration contains user fees for food processing facilities and for meat and poultry inspection.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

CLARIFICATION

In a Rules & Regs story appearing in the February issue of Packaging World, COOL labeling requirements with regard to fish were misstated. The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress in January contained a two-year moratorium on COOL for all covered products except seafood.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

Booked designs

Seven of Compass Design’s designs are published in the Big Book of New Design Ideas, a full-color, 384-page, hardbound book edited by David E. Carter and published by HarperCollins.

March 31, 2004

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Rinker invests in process improvement

Rinker’s multiwall valve-bag filling operation made big gains in productivity, accuracy, and ergonomics after management invested in three key upgrades.

March 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

High-visibility packs to see rapid growth

A studypublished in March 2004 by the Freedonia Group forecasts United States demand for clamshells, blister packs and other prominent packages will reach $7.2 billion in 2008.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Publishing designs

Seven of Compass Design's designs are published in the Big Book of New Design Ideas, a full-color, 384-page, hardbound book edited by David E.

February 29, 2004

Contract packaging

Rx packaging: The view from Italy

Join Packaging World's Technical Editor Rick Lingle in a recap of an early March tour of pharmaceutical companies in Italy’s "Packaging Valley."

February 29, 2004

Flexibles

Puncture-resistant shrink bag

Make no bones about it, the ArmorX™ CBP™ (Complete Bone-In Protection) shrink bag is one tough bag.

February 29, 2004

Flexibles

Silver Award winners

Following is a list of winners of Silver Awards in the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Achievement Awards.

February 29, 2004

Flexibles

New vf/f/s packs poultry

With four new turnkey packaging systems from CMD Corp., Canadian poultry firm Maxi Canada Inc. attained both efficiency and reliability on four of its packaging lines.

February 29, 2004