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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Controls & Machine Components
Wake up and smell the standards!
Attention packaging machine buyers. Take this quick quiz: Are you fed up with trying to maintain increasingly computerized packaging equipment, networks, and plants?
November 30, 2001
Food: Page 302
Conveying & accumulation
Scale system shines at Diamond
A twin-head, triple-pan scale system at Diamond of California’s Robertsdale, AL, plant reduces giveaway, lessens labor costs, and saves on forklift rental costs.
November 30, 2001
Flexible packaging
Listerine packs strips in 'vials'
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Morris Plains, NJ, debuts Cool Mint Listerine PocketPaks™, tiny hinged "vials" within a carded blister pack. The vials, which measure 1 3/4’’ x 1’’ x 1/4’’, contain paper-thin, postage stamp-sized oral care strips. The strips dissolve instantly on the tongue where they kill germs on contact.
October 31, 2001
Beverage
EU blocks Tetra Laval's takeover bid for Sidel
The European Commission of the 15-nation European Union in late October blocked a $1.53 billion bid by Lausanne, Switzerland-based beverage carton maker Tetra Laval SA to take over packaging equipment manufacturer Sidel SA, Le Havre Cedex, France.
October 31, 2001
Bakery/Snack
Bonds a hit with Wheaties
As announced October 17 by General Mills, Minneapolis, MN, San Francisco Giants' slugger Barry Bonds will be honored with a special Wheaties box to be introduced nationally by around the end of October. "This is a great way to end the season–with a victory, another home run, and now my own Wheaties box," says Bonds. "What more could you ask for?"
October 31, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Holding it together
USDA has issued a final rule requiring labeling of natural sausage casings if they are derived from a different type of meat or poultry than the sausage.
October 31, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Non-GE labels misleading, says CSPI
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has called on FDA to take action against seven food manufacturers for making false and misleading label claims related to the absence of genetically engineered ingredients.
October 31, 2001
Tamper-evident machinery
Packaging's role in combatting terrorism
Originally, I had intended to overlook the issue of terrorism in this month’s column, recognizing that timing is one of the perils of writing something that won’t be in readers’ hands for several weeks.
October 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
X-ray system spices up on-line QA
An X-ray inspection system at Flavor Delite checks for ?anything? out of the ordinary inside canisters of seasonings, including clumps. A ?guardian angel? for the line, the system confirms packaged product weight, too.
October 31, 2001
Labels
Plastic bottles move toward aseptics
It won’t be a ‘slam dunk,’ but some experts say that aseptic filling of both high-and low-acid products into plastic bottles will gain wider acceptance across the United States.
October 31, 2001
Beverage
Plastic bottles move toward aseptics (sidebar)
What about probiotics?
October 31, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Yogurt producer fills craving for higher throughput
Yofarm reduces waste dramatically with a new auger filler that achieves consistent volume control of yogurt toppings.
October 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Delivering for dairy
Oberweis Dairy’s investment in new filling, capping, labeling, conveying, bottle-packing, and shrink-wrapping machinery begins to pay off with the introduction of single-serve milks.
October 31, 2001
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