Discover your next big idea at PACK EXPO Las Vegas this September
Experience a breakthrough in packaging & processing and transform your business with solutions from 2,300 suppliers spanning all industries.
REGISTER NOW & SAVE
Subscribe
Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Case coders sparkle at Blue Diamond
New equipment delivers three lines of type for bulk boxes of nuts. The case coders reduce labor costs, downtime, and ink loss associated with previous units.
July 31, 2001
Food: Page 307
Flexibles
Produce, pet foods grow flexibles
The value of flexible packaging is expected to grow 3.5% this year to $19.7 billion, according to the State of the Industry Report 2001. Released in June by the Flexible Packaging Assn.
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
StarKist 3-oz pouch is a smaller 'hook'
StarKist Foods Div. of Pittsburgh-based Heinz North America hopes to hook consumers with a smaller, single-serve pouch of StarKist tuna. Introduced in April, the 3-oz Flavor Fresh Pouch is a line extension of the companyâs 7.06-oz pouch introduced last fall. The new, smaller pouch is expected to be available nationally by August.
July 31, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA demands proof of botanical claims
FDA is cracking down on increasingly popular botanically enhanced foods and beverages, demanding proof they are safe and do not make false and misleading claims.
July 31, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Industry develops guidelines for allergen labeling
The Food Allergy Issues Alliance, a group of food trade associations and other organizations focused on allergy-related topics, has issued the Food Allergen Labeling Guidelines to help the estimated seven million Americans with food allergies avoid foods that might make them sick.
July 31, 2001
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
A sharper image
To help Schick/Wilkinson Sword, Milford, CT, design a package for its new razor that appeared as sculpted as the product inside, Fisher Designâs (Cincinnati, OH) creative team devised bold, sleek graphics to deliver greater product visibility.
July 31, 2001
Converting equipment
The CP moves my cheese
A couple of months ago, I prepared a packaging trends report for the conference program that accompanied the Converting Machinery/Materials Intl. show.
July 31, 2001
Closures
Nestlé package 'percolates' success
NestlĂ© Canadaâs NescafĂ© Ice coffee syrup bottle earned the âChairmanâs Choiceâ award in the 2001 National Canadian packaging competition. Developed in conjunction with Graham Packaging Canada (Burlington, Ontario, Canada), the blow-molded, black opaque high-density polyethylene bottle has turned a lot of heads in grocery dairy aisles since its Canadian national rollout earlier this year. A U. S. introduction is expected at some point in the future.
June 30, 2001
Dairy
Nestlé debuts retorted carton; Hain gains competitive 'wedge'
NestlĂ© Friskies Italia is the first globally to use a retortable carton from Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL). Commercialized in May for its new Friskies âQualitĂ Freschezzaâ petfood, the Tetra Recartâą technology is more than two years from a U.S.
June 30, 2001
Bakery/Snack
Quality product, quality coding
âItâs too easy to spend time and money on the best ingredients, careful production, and attractive packaging only to destroy the quality feel by poor printing of the âuse-byâ date and batch number on the pack.â Sales director David Marx of Giles Foods knows whereof he speaks. His firm, based in Milton Keynes, England, supplies a range of quiches and specialty breads to major food retailers in the United Kingdom.
June 30, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Other NACD winners cont.
General industrial and automotive: gold to North Pak Palmer Container (Twinsburg, OH) and Ashland Chemical for an F-style can and spout for insulation adhesives; silver to Richards Packaging and Bardahl for a bottle and closure for a custom designed bottle for automotive chemicals; bronze to TricorBraun and Senoret Chemical for a bottle and dispensing closure for a pesticide.
June 30, 2001
Flexibles
Impressions from WestPack
The king is dead. . . What once was one of the most interesting and fun national shows deteriorated this year into what looked like urban renewal--there were so many empty spaces throughout the exhibit floor.
June 30, 2001
Bakery/Snack
X-rays develop in packaged foods
United Kingdom-based plants of Nestlé, Unilever, and Thorntons Plc are among the first to use an enhanced Advanced X-ray Inspection System (AXIS) to inspect trayed salads, wrapped baked goods, and packaged candy, among others.
June 30, 2001
Previous Page
Page 307 of 480
Next Page
Products
EOL Group to Showcase the FLEXLINE at PACK EXPO
See the FLEXLINEâan 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 hourâat Standard-Knapp's Booth W-2110.
Recyclable Lidding Film for Produce
Sustainable Seafood Packaging
More Products
