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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Cartoning
Packagers prepare for Y2K
Most manufacturers Packaging World contacted have found only minor potential Y2K problems on their packaging lines. Still, bugs can be elusive, especially for more automated plants.
August 31, 1999
Food: Page 337
Flexible packaging
Apio expands use of smart packaging
California produce grower/marketer Apio launches a 3-lb retail package of fresh-cut veggies in a rigid PET tray with a breathable patch that provides a 14-day shelf life.
August 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Packagers appear prepared for Y2K
Confidential survey of readers identifies some problems, but assures that fixes have been offered. Performance guarantees are few and far between.
August 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
WestPack celebrates 50 years of packaging innovation
Featuring five specialty pavilions, including a new one for converters, WestPack 99 honors its history at the Anaheim Convention Center Sept. 28 to 30.
August 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Y2K fever makes bulk foods sales sizzle
For the millions of people worried about the new millennium, timing is everything. The race is on to obtain bulk foods packaged with oxygen absorbers.
August 31, 1999
Secondary Packaging
Solutions 99 conference focuses on emerging technologies
Solutions 99 is the educational conference that will be part of Pack Expo Las Vegas, Oct. 18 to 20. Three mornings of seminars feature the latest topics in packaging. Pre-registration deadlines for the conference and for the show are Sept. 27.
August 31, 1999
Flexibles
How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)
Enhancing package appeal
August 31, 1999
Flexibles
How European culture drives packaging
The Intl. Steel Packaging Congress 1999, held during interpack 99, illuminated ideas for European manufacturers at the turn of the century. Many points will resound also in the U.S.
August 31, 1999
Confection/Candy
How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)
Goelitz Candy automates
August 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Wrapper automatically bales hay for export
For the first time in the hay industry, an export company uses an automatic stretch wrapper to prepare its hay bales for shipment overseas.
August 31, 1999
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Oil packer's ink-jets add bar codes
Private-label motor oil customers seek better bottle codes and bar codes on cases. Packer siezes opportunity to upgrade to a networked system using wax-based inks that help plant achieve pollution cutbacks.
August 31, 1999
Converting equipment
Lemonade launch refreshed by innovative packaging
In launching the first major ReaLemon Brand® extension in 65-years, package designers at Eagle Family Foods brought plenty of creativity to the first shelf-stable lemonade concentrate.
August 31, 1999
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Resin performs swimmingly for Salmolux
Federal Way, WA-based smoked seafood producer Salmolux Inc. markets gourmet smoked salmon at retail and restaurants internationally. Recently, Salmolux changed packaging film specs for its skin-packs.
August 31, 1999
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