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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
Food: Page 303
Closures
Delivering for dairy (sidebar)
Custom bottle helps launch Oberweis Dairy into single-serve milks
October 31, 2001
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Does meat packaging meet expectations?
Meat and poultry packaging continues to be a source of frustration for retailers and consumers. That's according to a report entitled, "Meat Packaging in Transition: Consumer Perceptions and Industry Opportunities," from The Consumer Network (Philadelphia, PA).
September 30, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Born in the USA?
USDA is considering a petition, endorsed by American Farm Bureau, AMI, National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn., National Meat Assn., and Food Marketing Institute, to create a “USA Beef” voluntary certification label for industry to use as a marketing tool to increase beef sales.
September 30, 2001
Beverage
New News
Oberweis Dairy is one of approximately 10 dairies in the United States that produces Looney-Tunes-brand single-serve milks, through an unusual business arrangement.
September 30, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Country-of-origin labeling knocked
Opponents of proposed new mandatory country-of-origin labeling requirements are worried that a pending bill, the Consumer Right to Know Act of 2001, will be wrapped into the FY2002 Agriculture Appropriations bill due for consideration in the Senate.
September 30, 2001
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
P&G tests Pringles portion pack
Procter & Gamble is test marketing Smart Stacks, a 0.81-oz portion pack of its Pringles-brand potato crisps, in a thermoformed polypropylene cup whose bottom is shaped like the curvy snack.
September 30, 2001
Closures
Welch's opts for multilayer PP, easy-spread cap
Like other juice marketers, Welch’s has typically relied on heat-set polyethylene terephthalate when converting from glass to plastic. But the firm changed that pattern when it came time to design a plastic alternative to its 10-oz single-serve glass containers. This time, the Concord, MA-based firm opted for a translucent polypropylene bottle rather than clear PET.
September 30, 2001
Recycling
Multipack markets Stonyfield's soy yogurt
Organic yogurt producer Stonyfield Farm in May introduced O’Soy, an all-natural soy yogurt, in what it believes is a unique six-pack. The multipack “wrap” is 20-pt recycled clay-coated newsback, supplied by Old Dominion Box (Madison Heights, VA).
September 30, 2001
Labels
Havana brews enticing shape, graphics
The allure of Havana’s sophisticated nightlife emerges through the image of an exotic woman to become the icon that dominates the full-body shrink label adorning Havana, an iced coffee from North American Beverage Co., Ocean City, NJ.
September 30, 2001
Labels
Oberweis Dairy is 'looney' over milks
North Aurora, IL-based Oberweis Dairy, best known for its glass containers of milk, introduced in August a line of five 12-oz Looney Tunes-brand flavored milks in polyethylene terephthalate bottles.
September 30, 2001
Bakery/Snack
Anti-tampering legislation proposed
The Product Packaging Protection Act of 2001, introduced by Sens. Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), would make it unlawful for third parties to insert written or other material inside a consumer product without the permission of the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer.
September 30, 2001
Dairy
Appointments, promotions
All-Pak, Inc. (Bridgeville, PA): Edward Wirtz, sales territory mgr., Philadelphia; Bret King, sales rep., Columbus. —DuPont Packaging (Wilmington, DE): Michael J.
September 30, 2001
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