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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
Appeal inside and out
New Purina dog food bag employs vivid printing to catch dog owners’ eyes, great flavor inside to attract those owners’ canines.
August 31, 2001
Food: Page 306
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Food allergens nothing to sneeze at
FDA is looking more closely at food labels and processing/packaging materials to determine whether incidental additives must be declared.
August 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Furman polishes up brightstock packing
Furman Foods increases output with a new depalletizer, tray packer, tray stacker, film wrapper, and shrink tunnel. Conveyors assist flow control to keep things running smoothly. See in-plant video
August 31, 2001
Flexibles
Nestlé extends pasta's shelf life by 50%
A Nestlé USA facility in Danville, VA, is the first known commercial user of the OS1000 polymer-based oxygen-scavenging system from Cryovac (Duncan, SC).
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
Dairy Crest milk pouch trial
EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Dairy Crest is currently trialling a milk pouch system at selected doorstep delivery depots and supermarkets in the UK. Click logo for full article.
July 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
A pedigreed pouch
Kal Kan launched eight 150-g (5.3-oz) varieties of Pedigree Little Champions wet dog food this spring in what appears to be the same foil-laminated pouch used for the company's Whiskas-brand cat food (see Packaging World, Aug. '99, p. 83, or packworld.com/go/whiskas). Little Champions sports an 18-month shelf life, and it carries Kal Kan's Flavor-Lock Pouch trademark.
July 31, 2001
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Bakery wraps up production rates
Mail-order bakery Bellows House Bakery, Walpole, NH, found a resolution to high labor costs and low production rates in packaging its grab-and-go cookies and brownies. In fall ’99, manual labor and semi-automatic sealing was replaced by a Fuji-Formost (Woodinville, WA) Model FW-340mII horizontal form/fill/seal wrapper.
July 31, 2001
Recycling
Canister sends Rugrats to Mexico
In April, Mexico's largest baked goods company, Marinela, released a special line of cookies dedicated to the Mexican release of the Nickelodeon movie, "Rugrats in Paris." The product is housed in a slim 113x1110 composite canister from Sonoco (Hartsville, SC). It's topped with a molded plastic dispenser in the shape of one of the seven main Rugrats characters.
July 31, 2001
Labels
'Enfa' now says Mead Johnson globally
Nearly 600 SKUs of baby nutritional products around the world are now carrying a new Enfa brand design for easy recognition.
July 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
'Job shop' takes hands-on approach to skin packaging
Semi-automatic skin packaging machine improves protection of shipments of stainless-steel components and saves money.
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
U.S. Sugar zips into reclosable bags
Private-label sugar producer converts nearly all its customers to zippered flexible bags of powdered and brown sugars. The switch helps to double sales.
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
Sony in Japan, Swedish dairy introduce 'green' packs
Sony debuts computer discs in an overwrap made from biodegradable, compostable resin. Swedish dairy tries 2-L bottle for milk and juice made from a resin blended with calcium carbonate.
July 31, 2001
Closures
The problem with patented packaging
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that patents almost always mean ‘functional.’ Does this mean trade-dress protection disappears after the patent runs out?
July 31, 2001
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EOL Group to Showcase the FLEXLINE at PACK EXPO
See the FLEXLINE—an automated packing system designed to efficiently and reliably package a wide range of products, including oddly shaped stick items and various formats of cups and pouches, at speeds up to 40,000 units per hour—at Standard-Knapp's Booth W-2110.
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