Secondary Packaging

Paper Discovery Center opens

After years of planning and fund-raising, The Paper Discovery Center is now open to the public in Appleton, WI. Located in Kimberly-Clark’s former Atlas Mill on the Fox River, the mill has been transformed into the only science and technology museum in Northeast Wisconsin.

April 30, 2005

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Flexibles

A 'cool' data-logging temperature sensor

An economical and compact new temperature-tracking device is being used by Cool Dog for frozen novelties.

April 30, 2005

Sustainability

interpack insights

The buzz at the über-sized interpack packaging show in Germany included integration, function-block technology, Rx ‘pens,’ simplicity, esthetics, and concern for machinery ‘made in China.’

April 30, 2005

Prepared Foods

Smurfit-Stone's VPS.5 merchandiser system

Smurfit -Stone’s VPS.5 Merchandiser System combines the innovation of display-ready designs with the production efficiency and superior performance of a machine-erected box.

March 31, 2005

Flexibles

On paper, a world of opportunity

The consensus view is paperboard is hardly old-fashioned. But both consumers and retailers believe it can do far more to intensify the visual theater, clarify the price-value relationship with the product, and improve security.

March 31, 2005

Prepared Foods

How the research was conducted (sidebar)

Sponsored by the Paperboard Packaging Alliance, the consumer research involved eight focus groups of adult consumers and four groups of teen-agers and younger consumers known as “tweens.” They were held in 2003 and 2004 at NewProductWorks, a new product development consulting organization in Ann Arbor, MI.

March 31, 2005

Containers

Jolt relaunch is 'electric'

After 20 years, Wet Planet reintroduces Jolt in a 23.5-oz aluminum resealable can decorated with thermochromic inks.

March 31, 2005

Closures

Baby boomers may be the demographic 'bomb'

Companies would be wise to develop convenient packaging for aging baby boomers that have plenty of disposable income.

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

Recloseable MAP bags differentiate Farmer John's bacon

Farmer John Meats/Clougherty Packing Co., Los Angeles, CA, is marketing precooked bacon in a uniquely designed, contoured bag made of barrier film supplied by Curwood.

February 28, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Foodservice firm to use time indicator

Foodservice supplies company DayMark, Bowling Green, OH, expects to be to be the first North American user of diffusion-based expiration-date indicators from Timestrip this month when it introduces Cooler Strips.

February 28, 2005

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Convenience pack is no turkey (sidebar)

Highest Achievement—Packaging ExcellenceSilver—Printing AchievementAn innovative carrier bag from Curwood has provided big improvements for customers of Jennie-O Turkey Store, Willmar, MN, for whole frozen turkeys.

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

Non-foil 18-oz retort pouch provides microwaveability (sidebar)

Gold—Packaging ExcellenceTo help position its 18-oz Homestyle Express Asian Style Selections as highly consumer convenient, The Wornick Co.

February 28, 2005

Dairy

Odom's takes 'Tennessee Pride' in cartoning

New carton-forming and -closing equipment improve efficiency at Tennessee Quality Foods’ breakfast sandwich packing facility in Dickson, TN.

January 31, 2005