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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 342
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Beef labeling
Congress continues to ponder requiring country-of-origin labels on some imported foods, including beef and lamb. Package labels would indicate the origin of the meat source and the percentages of both domestic and imported meat when they are blended, as in ground beef.
April 30, 1999
Flexible packaging
Standing up to the competition
By early this summer, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler expects to complete its nationwide rollout of Cheez-It® baked snack mixes in three varieties.
April 30, 1999
Dairy
Kellogg, IP team up in school
A new school milk program from Kellogg Co. and International Paper (Memphis, TN) features 8-oz milk cartons displaying popular Kellogg characters on the side panels.
April 30, 1999
Bakery/Snack
Supplier news: Achievements
Mott's (Stamford, CT) won the American Marketing Assn.'s Gold Edison Award for its single-serve Fruitsations® blended fruit snacks.
April 30, 1999
Dairy
Package designs shine among Mobius winners
The 28th-annual Mobius Awards were handed out late last year. The package design category highlighted some of the year's most exciting and successful packages.
April 30, 1999
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ): Tim Fitzgerald, mgr., global and strategic accounts; Tom Salmon, business leader.
April 30, 1999
Containers
Fomo tracks many happy returns
A tracking system better controls Fomo Products' fleet of returnable containers holding foam insulation chemicals. That helps the company save up to $60ꯠ/yr.
April 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Fire gives snack baker a clean slate
Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.
April 30, 1999
Sustainability
More than just a pretty package (sidebar)
Additional winners include:
April 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic tray loaders speed cookie loading
A state-of-the-art line at Voortman Cookies in Canada uses 10 vision-guided robots to simultaneously pack cookies into five trays at 1걄 cookies/min. Saves C$450ꯠ/yr in labor costs and provides 10-minute tool-less changeover.
April 30, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Film's flexibility fits ice packs
Puncture-resistant film protects Forever Ice's 'reusable' ice to withstand repeated freezing and thawing. A custom tf/f/s machine improves efficiency.
April 30, 1999
Flexibles
Candy package meets a tough deadline
Beverly Hills-based Taste of Nature was all set last spring to launch its new Cookie Dough Bites at Chicago's All Candy Expo in June. There was just one small problem: The company hadn't settled on a package.
March 31, 1999
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