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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 308
Flexibles
Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH) and Outsourcing Services Group (Allendale, NJ) have signed a letter of intent for OSG to purchase P&G’s North Norwich mfg.
June 30, 2001
Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings
Sizzling graphics
Packaging for the new Jack Daniel’s Grilling Sauce was designed to show consumers that the product can be as good over grilled food as Jack Daniel’s whiskey is over ice.
June 30, 2001
Flexibles
Campbell's meal kit packs convenience
Spotted by Packaging World editors at FMI, Campbell’s Supper Bakes will rollout nationally in July with five packaging components. Each outer paperboard carton contains a 10¾-oz easy-open steel can of baking sauce, a high-density polyethylene/ethylene vinyl acetate-blend pouch of starch mix, and paper/plastic and foil/plastic-laminated tandem packets of seasoning and crumb toppings.
June 30, 2001
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Distributors show off creativity
A total of 21 packages in seven categories were honored with awards in the annual NACD competition. Winners in the food category are products of precise engineering.
June 30, 2001
Sustainability
Weirton stretches for film/paper 'cocoon'
This steel producer works closely with a distributor to protect shipments of its 36ꯠ-lb steel coils by stretch wrapping them in vapor corrosion inhibitor film.
June 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Two-line strategy copes with growth
Two new lines at U.K. contract packager Axxis Intl. both rely on puck systems to handle personal care products. One line is tailored for long runs, the other for quick-change versatility. See in-plant video
June 30, 2001
Flexibles
Gravure winners solve problems
During the technical meeting of the Packaging & Label Gravure Assn., 11 entries were cited in the group's first packaging competition. The Best of Show and a winner in the flexible packaging category was the Kirkland Four Cheese Ravioli pouch by Nordenia USA (Jackson, MO) for Costco.
May 31, 2001
Closures
Love Bus Brew tours the West
South Beach Beverage Company, Norwalk, CT, is rolling out the new SoBe Love Bus Brew June 1 to the West Coast. The chocolate drink comes in a lizard-embossed 16-oz glass bottle, decorated with a colorful 2-mil polypropylene label and a 50-micron polyvinyl chloride neck sleeve.
May 31, 2001
Flexibles
Packets add spice to pork packs
Farmland Foods, Inc., Kansas City, MO, introduced case-ready Extra Tender Fresh Pork in random-weight vacuum packs earlier this year. Each pack contains a ½-oz seasoning packet to promote a custom, do-it-yourself approach to seasoning.
May 31, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Marinade bottle delivers
Liquid marinades in 15 shelf-stable flavors from Excalibur Seasoning Co. Ltd., Pekin, IL, were repackaged earlier this year from an 86-oz bottle with pump dispenser to a 64-oz high-density polyethylene “Tip-N-Pour” container.
May 31, 2001
Flexibles
From gabletop to plastic
Both Nestlé USA and Hershey Foods used the Food Marketing Institute 2001 show as a platform to promote plastic containers that replace gabletop cartons.
May 31, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Catering to convenience (sidebar)
Other winners
May 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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