Beverage

Used equipment buyers offer 'suggestions'

Packaging machine buyers sound off about buying used or rebuilt packaging machines. Many say the process needs to resemble how they buy new equipment.

March 31, 2001

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Secondary Packaging

Diners find film packs ideal for every meal course

From soups and salads to poultry, foods of all types become winners at the market—and in the 2000 Flexible Packaging Assn. competition.

March 31, 2001

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

No foreign meat stamp

USDA wants to stop putting quality grades, such as prime, select or choice, on imported beef and other meat. U.S. meat producers strongly support the measure, while some meatpackers and countries like Australia and Canada want the grading practice continued.

February 28, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

More nutrition labeling proposed

Mandatory nutrition labeling would be expanded to include single-ingredient raw meat and poultry products under a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture proposal issued by Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman shortly before leaving office.

February 28, 2001

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

A marketer in packaging trade dress

To paraphrase an old packaging axiom: In marketing terms, the word “revision” is virtually synonymous with “deadline.” Ask any packaging professional—from R&D to engineering to the testing lab to purchasing to the packaging machinery maintenance department—and they’ll tell you that the “suggestions” from the marketing department can be major source of stress.

February 28, 2001

Contract packaging

E-commerce demands quick-change equipment

Packworld.com visitors relate packaging changes necessary for e-commerce, direct-to-consumer sales through an exclusive survey conducted late last year.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Converting technologies into solutions

CMM’s 13th biennial exposition in April plans to offer answers for converting and package printing industries, through what it calls its most comprehensive educational program ever.

February 28, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Gillette's new Venus packed with features

Both the product and package for Gillette for Women Venus razor achieve new levels of consumer convenience. An easy-open blister pack with an unusual collar highlights the razor, while cartridges are hermetically sealed in easy-open cups.

February 28, 2001

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Water, water everywhere

In another of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman's 11th hour regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a new requirement. Meat processors must list clearly on labels the percentage of retained water or the maximum percentage of absorbed water of meat and poultry products.

January 31, 2001

Flexibles

No beef with new packaging

RMH Foods’ precooked beef products were so good they won two top awards in last year’s competition held by Cattlemen’s Beef Board. However, the Morton, IL-based company didn’t feel the packaging was doing an equally good job of winning consumers.

January 31, 2001

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Sites Are Changing...Are You?

The bloom is definitely off the e-commerce rose as many sites are running out of funding. The good news is that many of these sites, at least in packaging, continue to improve.

January 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Korea bows to U.S. pressure

Korea’s new country-of-origin labeling requirements for beef and pork products were due to take effect on January 1, but at the last moment, the Korean Government agreed to a request by USDA and the Office of the U.S.

January 31, 2001

Converting equipment

Can packagers maintain productivity improvements?

As we progress into the new year, nervousness about the economy abounds. And it’s coming from a lot of fronts, including people in the packaging business.

January 31, 2001