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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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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
Food: Page 312
Closures
Dial dispenses foamy hand wash
This month, Dial Corp.’s new Dial Complete Foaming Hand Wash will be available nationwide at retail. The antibacterial liquid formulation combines with a multi-component pump to dispense as a foam.
March 31, 2001
Flexibles
Tuna to make its debut in pouc
EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Princes Foods to target the single serve market with 85g pouches. Click logo for full article.
March 31, 2001
Closures
Looney Tunes brand milk
Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes friends are now chilling out in the refrigerated milk department of retail outlets. On March 19, Bravo! Foods, of North Palm Beach, FL, introduced Looney Tunes brand flavored milk in a clear high-density polyethylene bottle that is decorated with a heat-shrink polyvinyl chloride label from Seal-It (Farmingdale, NY).
March 31, 2001
Flexibles
Pillsbury: No tear strip waffling
Catering to consumer convenience, Minneapolis-based Pillsbury introduced early this year a new, resealable package for its Hungry Jack Frozen Waffles. The 10-, 16-, and 24-count packs use a resealable tape made from a 3.2-mil polypropylene substrate coated with an FDA-compliant, pressure-sensitive freezer-grade adhesive that resists moisture and is suitable for the freezer.
March 31, 2001
Prepared Foods
Home-style design
A move from the restaurant table to the grocery freezer prompted Boston Market Homestyle Frozen entrée maker Heinz Frozen Food to contact Lipson Alport Glass & Associates (Cincinnati, OH) to design a carton that reinforces home-style ambiance, quality ingredients, and strong appetite appeal.
March 31, 2001
Labels
Peaches and lemons pop on this label
Bold, colorful images on a full-body heat-shrink label are helping Essentia Water’s Aquess turn heads. A newly launched beverage containing water-soluble fibers, Essentia comes in a 500-mL (16.9 oz) bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate.
March 31, 2001
Additives, coatings & inks
Dynamic growth for O2 scavengers
Average annual growth of oxygen scavenger packaging products in the United States is forecast at a stunning 215% between now and 2003. That’s according to George O. Schroeder Associates (Appleton, WI), international consultants in flexible and rigid plastic food packaging.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
A different kind of portal (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Air cushions salve Omron's shipping wounds
Medical supply distributor switches from loose-fill “peanuts” to an air-cushioned void fill to satisfy customers and cut space requirements.
March 31, 2001
Bakery/Snack
Pac-Ex 2001 set to roll
This biennial north-of-the-border packaging show, built on a successful formula, offers some new features for the new millennium.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
'Sprinting' to automated efficiency
New bagging equipment makes it easy for this California manufacturer to package its disposable travel toilet for either industrial or retail channels.
March 31, 2001
Beverage
Used equipment buyers offer 'suggestions'
Packaging machine buyers sound off about buying used or rebuilt packaging machines. Many say the process needs to resemble how they buy new equipment.
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.
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