Flexibles

Fruit snack comes in a 'nifty' cup

Introduced in late August at 7-Eleven stores across the country was Sunfresh® FruitJelite(TM), a fruit gelatin snack in a colorful textured cup and foil lid.

September 30, 1997

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Labels

Dean Foods unveils HDPE bottles for milk

As Packaging World went to press, Franklin, IL-based Dean Foods was introducing its new Milk Chug line of bottled milks in resealable pint, quart and 8-oz high-density polyethylene bottles.

September 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn

In an on-site container production partnership first, bottle maker Schmalbach-Lubeca leases a portion of AquaPenn's facility to reheat and blow PET preforms into bottles that AquaPenn fills at the same site.

August 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Widmer's bottle inspectors craft success

Widmer Brothers verifies fill level, missing crowns, as well as full cases of its newly introduced 12-oz bottles of beer. Newer bottling line produces draft 'biers' much like kegs.

August 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Packaging revolution IS changing everything

"This changes everything." That line, taken from a recent crop of Chrysler ads, would have us believe the company's doing something revolutionary in its field.

August 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn (sidebar)

HDPE container production 'captiv-ates' AquaPenn

August 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Sweetening your medicine

A new auger filler/checkweighing system allows Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturer to double its output and incorporate a new formulation onto its line.

August 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Ball inspects becausePepsi expects quality

On-line machine vision system helps Ball's Chino, CA, plant deliver high volumes of PET bottles to Pepsi-Cola's California bottlers.

August 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Machinery receives 'heavy' emphasis at Pack Expo West (sidebar)

Learning in Las Vegas

August 31, 1997

Labels

Clean, clinical cosmetics

While some cosmetics companies are moving away from a sterile, medicinal look, CAC North America has gone the opposite route with its new A'Cino(TM) skin care line.

August 31, 1997

Dairy

Upstate's cartons milk Holstein motif

"What's 'moo' and improved?" asks Upstate Farms Cooperative. Its new Holstein-cow graphics, of course. The Leroy, NY-based dairy coop is using colorful spotted graphics and a "Taste Upstate Freshness" tagline to market 49 SKUs of new and existing milk and cream offerings sold in the refrigerated case.

August 31, 1997

Flexibles

Rare cook-in pack for frozen raw fish

One of the showstoppers at this year's annual Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago was the booth of Carnival Brand-Seafood Co. The Overland Park, KS, firm displayed a wide variety of frozen fish packaged in convenient cook-in bags that let consumers microwave frozen fish and serve it in about five minutes.

August 31, 1997

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Birds Eye tries fresh, not frozen

Birds Eye fresh vegetables?

August 31, 1997