Flexible packaging

Nature's Pleasures launches fresh-cut apple slic es

This processor may not be the first to package apple slices in an extended shelf-life MAP format. But management believes its technology gives it an edge over those who pioneered the concept.

September 30, 1997

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Modem bridges 8,000-mile gap

New Zealand's Grated Cheese Co. relies on its vendor's engineers for tech support of its new combination weigher-from 8ꯠ miles away.

September 30, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Country of origin

Diehards are still attempting to require front panel country-of-origin marking on packages of frozen fruits and vegetables. In the latest developments, Rep.

September 30, 1997

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

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