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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
Design of the times
Editors are often asked, “What kinds of applications really get you interested in a story?” Usually, this is the preamble to a sales pitch for a story on the application du jour.
May 31, 2000
Food: Page 327
Flexibles
Flexo press colors future for Friedman Bag
California film and bag maker/converter invests in its future with an eight-color central impression flexo press that expands its opportunities. Press helps Friedman Bag retain the business of Pillsbury spinoff Potandon Produce.
May 31, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
New technology spurs Cremora launch in PET
An injection-molder occupies minimal floor space yet maximizes preform output, while a first-of-its-kind blow molder orients preforms in the mold.
May 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Amboy breaks new ground in smaller aseptic pouches (sidebar)
Low-acid pre-eminence
May 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Amboy breaks new ground in smaller aseptic pouches
F/f/s machine enlarges Amboy Specialty Foods’ reach to pouches as small as 3 oz. Products represent the most viscous application of the supplier’s technology in the world.
May 31, 2000
Converting equipment
A measure of success
Hydro Agri North America gains a foothold in the holding-tank treatment market, thanks to a redesigned package that includes built-in product measurement.
April 30, 2000
Closures
Heinz 'caps' squeeze ketchup
Complex new cap/liner on plastic bottles offers new consumer features, most prominently by ending the watery discharge caused by product settling.
April 30, 2000
Sustainable Packaging
Production ahead for corn-derived polymer
Cargill Dow breaks ground on its first world-scale NatureWorks PLA polyactide plant.
April 30, 2000
Dairy
Visual impact
Little Rock, AR-based TCBY’s ½-gal frozen yogurt packaging got a complete makeover from Fisher Design (Cincinnati, OH). The previous package featured illustrations of the flavor’s ingredients paired with light latticework set against a white background.
April 30, 2000
Prepared Foods
Short shrift
NFPA and the American Frozen Food Institute object to a proposal by FDA that it be allowed to give a “brief denial” to citizens’ petitions deemed to have no public health significance.
April 30, 2000
Flexibles
Carton graphics provide relief
Marketers at the Mentholatum Co. ached for a way to vividly show consumers how to use three new varieties of Migraine Ice cooling headache pads. They found relief in a colorful paperboard carton that uses a substantial portion of its front panel to show a consumer finding fast pain relief by applying a pad to his or her forehead, temple or neck.
April 30, 2000
Labels
Euro-chic graphics
Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp. introduces Tré Limone, a more refined, Euro-centric sister beverage to Clearly Canadian.
April 30, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packager survey: details & prices, yes; e-commerce, no (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
April 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.
Recyclable Lidding Film for Produce
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