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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packager survey: details & prices, yes; e-commerce, no (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
April 30, 2000
Food: Page 328
Conveying & accumulation
Temporary plugs aid aseptic filling
Aseptic filling of PET containers in Japan includes the unusual step of temporarily plugging bottles so that H2O2 sprayed inside will more effectively sterilize bottle interiors.
April 30, 2000
Bakery/Snack
Club stores driving corrugated changes
Warehouse membership stores are one of the primary drivers of change in corrugated packaging. Here’s how some major manufacturers are coping.
April 30, 2000
Flexibles
Grape grower adds 'zip' to bag
A new bag with a sliding zipper keeps a grower’s grapes unitized and adds consumer convenience. The gussetted bags also display well on store shelves.
April 30, 2000
Labels
Sleeve label dresses exotic Chai teas
Celestial Seasonings’ stunning full-body sleeve label provides marketing advantages for tapered, square bottles of hot-filled Mountain Chai tea lattes.
April 30, 2000
Flexible packaging
Packaging of chicken wings takes off
When Canadian poultry producer Olymel automated the packaging of its chicken wings, it was able to redeploy 12 operators formerly required for manual packaging.
April 30, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Shipping problems warrant 'krafty' solution
Mathews Conveyor saves time, money and reputation by re-evaluating its void-fill packaging for the shipment of small spare parts.
April 30, 2000
Flexibles
Soft graphics provide a hard sell
Since introducing its yo baby™ organic whole milk yogurt last September, Stonyfield Farm has enjoyed incredible sales success.
March 31, 2000
Closures
Cap ordering goes electronic
With the proliferation of Web sites devoted to purchasing complex packaging machinery, it seems only natural that buying closures online would be the next step.
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Prisma-powered drinks are aimed at adults
An acknowledged leader in aseptic filling of PET bottles, Lassonde Industries is among the first to install a Prisma aseptic packaging system from Tetra Pak. It is used for 236-mL packages.
March 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Smurfit-Stone: Paper canister
Smurfit-Stone (Chicago, IL) has developed PaperCan™, which uses a paperboard body with an integrated easy-to-open-and-close paperboard lid. Made of laminated or barrier-coated paperboard that can be linear or blank-formed.
March 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labels on crab
Some people in Maryland don’t want consumers to think they are eating Maryland crab when they’re not. The Maryland legislature is considering a bill that would require country-of-origin labeling of any container of crab meat packed or processed outside the U.S.
March 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Milk questions soy labeling
The National Milk Producers Federation filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration in February seeking to prohibit soy beverages from being labeled as “milk.” Soy drinks are popping up in dairy cases in packaging that closely resembles milk cartons, and NMPF is trying to protect the distinct identity of its product.
March 31, 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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