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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Converting equipment
Square PET jar in a round hole
AC Humko has successfully fit a square peg in what ordinarily is a round hole on the store shelf. The Memphis-based firm's new plastic jar for non-dairy creamer is square while just about everyone else's is round.
May 31, 1999
Food: Page 341
Sustainability
Goldfish 'swim' to overseas markets
Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers are in plentiful supply throughout the U.S. in both gable-top and paper-bag package formats. But to launch the popular snack overseas, Pepperidge Farm, a division of Campbell Soup Co.
May 31, 1999
Converting equipment
Ocean Spray firmly grasps handled PET
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., broke new ground in mid-April by introducing a 1-gal, clear, heat-set polyethylene terephthalate bottle that incorporates a preformed polypropylene side handle.
May 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
More on irradiation
In comments to USDA on its proposed new regulations allowing the use of irradiation on meat and poultry products, FMI strongly supported irradiation and said informed consumer choice is essential to its success.
May 31, 1999
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Thanks, Ben
For the first time since Packaging World began publishing in January, '94, this space is not filled by packaging news and opinions of Ben Miyares.
May 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Congress hears an earful about country-of-origin labeling
Testifying before a House Agriculture Subcommittee, representatives of food trade associations gave a resounding "no" to country-of-origin labeling legislation that requires disclosure of the origins of specific ingredients as well as the product itself.
May 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Controls system simplifies automatic case sortation
In the central packaging area of the two-year-old snack plant built by Pretzels, Inc. in Bluffton, In, corrugated cases of bagged snacks are conveyed from packaging to palletizing on a single powered roller conveyor.
May 31, 1999
Secondary Packaging
Hormel expanding MAP-packed pork
Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, believes it now has a long-shelf-life package system that delivers prepackaged pork cuts through a supermarket chain's warehouse.
May 31, 1999
Coding, Printing & Labeling
No Listeria labeling
Contrary to earlier reports, USDA is backing off the idea of labels warning of possible Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.
May 31, 1999
Closures
Paperboard packs award-winning punch
Award winners in this year's Paperboard Packaging Competition range from digital camera bag sleeves to catheter cards to bagel cartons.
May 31, 1999
Protective/transport packaging
Tinted bottles shield milk from UV light
When it comes to milk jugs, "Yellow is better," according to Smith Dairy Products, maker of the opaque yellow "Super Jug" of milk. The extrusion-blown, high-density polyethylene jug blocks out ultraviolet light emanating from fluorescent lighting in the supermarket dairy case or from the sun itself, according to the company.
May 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
TechniStar Corp.: Muffin-transfer system
TechniStar's (Longmont, CO) TMT Series transfer system for cake products uses an end-of-arm tool with as many as 36 vacuum cups to pick up baked and cooled muffins or cupcakes and place them in acetate trays, in one motion.
May 31, 1999
Closures
Hormel's pack makes bacon ready-to-eat
For the first time, fully precooked bacon strips are now available virtually anywhere in the supermarket. A new thermoformed MAP flexible package allows Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, to pack oxygen-sensitive cooked bacon slices without refrigeration for up to four months.
April 30, 1999
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