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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
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Secondary Packaging
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Beverage
Food
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Flexibles
Winn-Dixie leverages its own brand name
One-stop shopping provides Winn-Dixie with a comprehensive redesign for 60 private-label brands involving more than 3ꯠ items.
May 31, 2002
Food: Page 293
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Addition by subtraction
Golden Flake doubles speeds and reduces labor costs for potato chip packaging by replacing 21 outdated lines with eight new vf/f/s machines. See in-plant video
May 31, 2002
Flexibles
Are distributors valued? (sidebar cont.)
The survey allowed participants to explain how they felt about buying through distributors. Here’s a sampling of both the positive and negative comments about distributors:
May 31, 2002
Closures
2002 NACD Packaging Awards
Packaging World highlights the Gold Award winners of the National Assn. of Container Distributors 2002 Awards.
May 31, 2002
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Diamond of California: Scale systems for shelled nuts
Computerized scales from Hayssen deliver accurate amounts of nuts on this 16-head system that includes an upper scale with a booster hopper directly beneath. Nuts released from the scales fall through stainless-steel tubes into vf/f/s equipment.
April 30, 2002
Conveying & accumulation
Diamond of California: Side-by-side form/fill/seal machines for nuts
Filled and sealed bags of nuts discharge from two side-by-side vf/f/s machines onto a conveyor that runs perpendicular to them. Bags are then conveyed downstream. Meanwhile, printed film is pulled through tensioning rollers on one of the vf/f/s machines (right).
April 30, 2002
Secondary Packaging
Diamond of California: Automated case erector for bagged nuts
A key improvement to downstream packaging functions at Diamond of California is this automatic case erector. Erected cases are packed manually before tape is applied to top flaps (right) to seal them shut. An ink-jet system then prints best-before date, Julian date code, and line and shift codes.
April 30, 2002
Flexibles
Aseptic carton moves organic milks
“Organic” milk—produced without the use of pesticides, synthetic hormones, or antibiotics—has been around for a while. But Horizon Organic of Boulder, CO, claims it’s the first to launch an organic flavored milk in a single-serve format: the Tetra Prisma aseptic carton from Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL).
April 30, 2002
Closures
Shapely bottle pours into yogurt
For its new line of 10-oz drinkable yogurt, Stonyfield Farm is using a contoured high-density polyethylene bottle decorated with a full-body shrink-sleeve label.
April 30, 2002
Closures
Alfresh extends into PET
Toronto, Canada-based Alfresh Beverages Canada in January began selling its 473-mL (16-oz) fruit juices in PET bottles, rather than glass, under the Everfresh brand name in Canada and Fairlee in the United States.
April 30, 2002
Secondary Packaging
PVC tray protects Stilton cheeses
In England, the Tuxford and Tebbutt brand of the country’s potent white and blue Stilton cheeses has moved from overwraps to a new wedge-shaped thermoform from Anson Packaging (Cambridgeshire, England).
April 30, 2002
Flexibles
Green designs artfully presented
Ambitious and authoritative coverage of green, or environmentally friendly packaging, tastefully presented from a design perspective.
April 30, 2002
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
New twist on graphics
For Lip Twirls lip protectant recently introduced by The Mentholatum Co. of Orchard Park, NY, Fisher Design (Cincinnati, OH) created a brand identity that is meant to contribute to a strong brand equity over time.
April 30, 2002
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