Flexible packaging

Additional winners

Following are DuPont award winners previously covered in Packaging World articles.

July 31, 2002

Prepared Foods: Page 52

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Make fresh data as accurate as frozen

Commenting on FDA’s proposed update of the list of the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish and their nutrition labeling values, the American Frozen Food Institute expressed its concern about what it believes to be the outdated nutrient values that are incorporated into the current voluntary labeling program.

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Jana's cookies fly high!

Although markets have been depressed, Jana’s Classics has automated the packaging of its cookies for airline desserts.

July 31, 2002

Beverage

Monobloc 'cleans up' for Cyprus company

Cyprus-based beverage producer Lanitis Bros. Ltd. is first to use a monobloc bottle-blowing, -filling, and -capping system for fresh, pasteurized milk in PET.

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Tube packs tap timely trend

Flexible tube packs match consumers’ requirements for on-the-go-anywhere eating for a new wave of portable foods.

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Flexibles growth to continue despite 'trying' 2001

Flexible packaging technology and new product introductions will fuel sales of flexible packaging materials, which FPA forecasts to reach $21.2 billion this year.

July 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Flexible packaging reigns

Flexible packages predominate in this year’s DuPont Awards competition. Innovation in biodegradable packaging and convenience also shine.

July 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

North Side: Weighing and filling of frozen beef patties

Bag filling begins at the Ohlson four-head bulk-and-dribble scale, which has frozen patties conveyed to it directly from a spiral freezer.

June 30, 2002

Secondary Packaging

North Side: Case erecting and labeling frozen beef patties

Case erecting of single-wall cases is done on a case erector from Wexxar.

June 30, 2002

Secondary Packaging

North Side: Case sealing frozen beef patties

Case taping is done by a Belcor machine with a rated speed of 20 cases/min. North Side runs in the range of 12 cases/min.

June 30, 2002

Beverage

Tyson revamps packaging design

Tyson Foods just announced a “world-class” packaging makeover to give its products a fresh, new look.

June 30, 2002

Converting equipment

'Healthy' carton energizes nutritional beverage

Multilayer, skived-edge gable-top carton for NuVim’s energy drinks virtually eliminates previous carton’s tendency to bulge.

June 30, 2002

Prepared Foods

Salaries satisfy (sidebar)

Few dissatisfied with salaries

June 30, 2002