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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Controls & Machine Components
KISS Packaging Systems a div. of the Frain Group: Positive displacement filler
The automatic positive displacement filler from KISS (Addison, IL) fills 1-oz to 1-gal glass or plastic bottles with lotions, creams, oils, gels and other viscous liquids.
June 30, 2000
Food: Page 325
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
All-Fill Inc: Volumetric filler
Model 305 single-head piston filler from All-Fill (Exton, PA) handles liquids, creams, pastes and other viscous products in fills from 50 mL to 2 ½ L.
June 30, 2000
Bakery/Snack
Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Pakrite Inc. (Cleveland, OH) will join the Steel Service Center Institute DealRoom™, which is produced by e-commerce firm eWinWin (Hopewell, NJ).
June 30, 2000
Dairy
Tasteful redesign
As Haagen-Dazs® prepared to launch Dulce de Leche Low-fat Frozen Yogurt and Mango Ice Cream, marketers there decided that the packages for the new products needed to be a little jazzier than packages used for the company’s flagship brand.
June 30, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Meat nutrition labels
Plugging a hole in the government’s mandatory nutrition labeling, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture announced it would seek such labeling on all fresh meat and poultry.
June 30, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Rules for GM foods
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) along with other food groups filed formal petitions with the Food Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to establish clear guidelines for the voluntary use of genetically modified designations such as “GM-free,” “Non-GM,” and others on product labels or in advertising.
June 30, 2000
Additives, coatings & inks
Polypropylene shows growth potential
Foodservice and retail applications will help drive growth in thermoformed packaging at an annual rate of 5.6%, with polypropylene leading the way with an estimated annual growth of nearly 20%.
June 30, 2000
Flexibles
Pudding in paperboard
In the U.S., ready-to-eat refrigerated pudding is often sold in multipacked plastic cups with flexible lidding. But in Helsinki, Finland, dairy giant Valio Ltd.
June 30, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
The legend of Jimmi; an ode to cosmetics
Last month in this space, you learned a bit about how some of us view package design, another way of saying, the “cosmetics” of packaging: how great printing or decorating of a container can attract customers.
June 30, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Kringle tray's a sweet success
Racine Danish Kringles is first to use a thermoformed, E-flute corrugated tray for its baked pastries. Tray delivers strength and environmental and marketing advantages.
June 30, 2000
Containers
Fruit flourishes with first-class accommodations
Florida grapefruit buyer switches to new fiber partition system to ship fragile grapefruit to Japan, dramatically reducing complaints of damaged fruit.
June 30, 2000
Cartoning
Planters picks a packing line
Consumers are clearly fond of single-serve “tubes” of Planters nuts. An automated packaging line helps keep the nationwide pipeline full.
June 30, 2000
Protective/transport packaging
Practice makes perfect
With the help of a low-cost prototype tool, ink-jet printer manufacturer Lexmark was able to successfully test mold fiber cushions as a means of protective packaging. As a result, the company enjoys both cost savings and environmental benefits.
June 30, 2000
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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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