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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Cartoning
Sliced apples stay fresh for 36 days
Reichel Foods has moved from nacho chips and dip to luncheon meat to PBJ ‘Snax’ to carrots to celery, all in thermoformed trays. Now comes sliced apples with a 36-day refrigerated shelf life.
April 30, 2001
Food: Page 311
Cartoning
Sliced apples stay fresh for 36 days (sidebar)
Robotics to the rescue
April 30, 2001
Flexible packaging
Heinz speeds oval container to market
Heinz Pet Snacks’ new Savory Bites dog snacks, packed in a tall oval container, epitomize the company’s new speed-to-market initiative.
April 30, 2001
Flexibles
Heinz speeds oval container to market (sidebar)
Heinz ‘Pounces’ on resealable pouch
April 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
New machine 'maps' out sandwich packs
Manufacturer relies on modified atmosphere packaging for its line of convenience store sandwiches.
April 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Wrapper stretches Sargento output
Sargento supplements a well-liked workhorse stretch wrapper with a system that’s 30% faster and also saves on film.
April 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Expo Pack Mexico
The Sports Palace in Mexico City plays host to Expo Pack Mexico from June 26 to 29. With some 600 exhibitors on hand, it’s the key packaging show in Central America.
April 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Downtime shrinks with new wrappers
When Georgia-Pacific needed to speed up wrapping rates for its 9” Dixie paper plates, management picked servo-driven, side-seal shrink wrappers that maintain high speed and tight registration.
April 30, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Dean Foods pours into extended shelf life
Dean Foods’ National Refrigerated Products Group employs extended shelf life technologies to market new products. New Marie’s Pourables and NesQuik demonstrate this strategy.
April 30, 2001
Prepared Foods
Dean Foods pours into extended shelf life (sidebar)
Suiza agrees to buy Dean Foods
April 30, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
New organic and 'gmo' label standards
USDA and FDA are imposing order on claims for organic and genetically modified organism (GMO)-free foods that appear on packages and labels.
April 30, 2001
Flexibles
Costco bags gravure honors
A bag holding 4 lb of four-cheese ravioli was the Best of Show winner in the recent packaging competition sponsored by the Packaging & Label Gravure Assn.
March 31, 2001
Closures
FDA OK's Pharmacia's aseptic system
In December, Peapack, NJ-based Pharmacia Corp. received Food and Drug Administration approval to produce its parenteral drug Caverject on an aseptic filling system that improves sterility assurance before and during vial filling, checkweighing and stoppering processes.
March 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.
Recyclable Lidding Film for Produce
Sustainable Seafood Packaging
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