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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA packaging guidance gets bad 'wrap' (sidebar)
Safer institutional drug packaging?
February 29, 2000
Food: Page 330
Containers
Look Ma, no hands!
Automation, custom molding and a packaging partnership allow an inventor to bring a hands-free tube applicator to the marketplace.
February 29, 2000
Bakery/Snack
Unsaleable product costs reach $4.2 billion in '98 (sidebar)
Manufacturers studied
February 29, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Unsaleable product costs reach $4.2 billion in '98
Packaging is often the problem when products and packages are diverted from retailers to reclamation centers. Credits issued are a growing cost for distributors and manufacturers, says a new report.
February 29, 2000
Contract Packaging
Contract packaging bets on Las Vegas
As part of the third annual Private Label Expo, show sponsor Bentley Intl. has added a Contract Packaging Expo, April 5 to 6, in Las Vegas. Conference sessions on outsourcing will also be featured.
February 29, 2000
Closures
Label copy a charged issue for irradiated beef
Beef processors and food companies can be excused for thinking the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s final approval of irradiation on raw red meat products is a bit undercooked.
February 29, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Dean dips into single-serve cups
Dean Foods creates a new refrigerated foods category with four-packs of 2 3/4-oz chip and vegetable dips marketed in colorful die-cut folding cartons.
February 29, 2000
Flexible packaging
Cube-like bag stands tall
Lebanon Seaboard is among the first to use a patented new stand-up bag concept called the Lincube® Bag from Linpac Packaging Solutions (Austell, GA). Since December, the Lebanon, PA, firm has sold three varieties of its bird seed in the stand-up bag in Maryland and Virginia. Other markets will follow.
February 29, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Exact Equipment Corp.: Bottom labeler
Exact’s (Morrisville, PA) SHL-100 labeler applies labels to the bottom of meat packages at speeds to 50 packs/min. Combines industrial robot technology and stepper motor drive.
February 29, 2000
Sustainability
Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards
From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.
January 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Pouch is part of a 'brand block'
In a major packaging initiative, Heinz launches a stand-up bag with a TransZip™ resealable closure as a replacement for lay-flat plastic bags for all Ore-Ida frozen french fries, hash browns and tater tots.
January 31, 2000
Flow wrapping
Klockner Hansel Tevopharm USA: Flow wrapper
The servo-driven Pack 200 horizontal flow wrapper from Klockner Hänsel Tevopharm (Sarasota, FL) uses cold- or heat-sealable film to wrap bakery and confectionery products at speeds to 350 packs/min.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Evergreen Packaging: Fillers for milk or juice
Two new fillers from Evergreen (Cedar Rapids, IA) package fresh refrigerated milk or juice at speeds to 3ꯠ gabletop cartons/hr. The GTL-1000 (shown) fills 250- to 1걶-mL (8.45- to 38.9-oz) cartons, while the GTN-1000 fills 125- to 500-mL (4.23- to 16.9-oz) cartons.
January 31, 2000
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