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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexible packaging
Flexible materials earn Green Globe Award
Heath Manufacturing wins a Green Globe Award from the Flexible Packaging Assn. for a bird suet cake package that uses less material than its predecessor. New equipment increases productivity while saving labor costs.
February 28, 1999
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Labels
Innovative applications bag awards
Flexible bags protect bone-in meat products, provide a barrier for respiring cheese, and allow high-altitude shipping of tortilla chips. All three earn awards from the Flexible Packaging Assn.
February 28, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Protecting gourmet flavors for canines
Breeder's Choice opts for a high-barrier, all-plastic lamination for two sizes of its new Pinnacle super-premium dog foods. Long shelf life, nutrient protection and minimizing of infestation are among benefits.
February 28, 1999
Flexible packaging
Flexible film use wraps up awards
A bag for grease lubricant and a label for bottled juice are just two examples of innovative film uses that earned Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards.
February 28, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Collating candy at 3,000/min (sidebar)
How digital motion control works
February 28, 1999
Sustainability
Plastic beer bottles: coating or multilayer?
From Carlton and United Breweries of Melbourne, Australia, Lite Ice beer joins Carlton Cold in a plastic bottle. (See Packaging World, December '98, p.
February 28, 1999
Dairy
Autoprod Inc: Filling/closing system
The Fast-Pack filling/closing system from Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) is a double-indexing, 12-lane machine with microprocessor-controlled filling stations, SpeedLoader(TM) quick-change foil lid magazines and servo-driven heat-seal stations.
January 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Seneca sets its sights on plastic
Seneca Foods was among the first to convert from glass to hot-fillable plastic jars for applesauce. Now it fills both glass and plastic containers on essentially the same line.
January 31, 1999
Cartoning
Technology 'inches' forward at Oral-B
Oral-B concludes three-year project to develop new brush and creative preprinted package structure. Inks, thermoforming, materials handling, package closing systems all gain in new developments.
January 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
HDPE-bottled dairy beverages 'milk' 90-day shelf life
Canadian dairy products marketer Natrel is the first North American user of an ultra-high-temperature processing/aseptic filling line. The process permits Natrel to launch single-serve milks and shakes with a 90-day refrigerated shelf life.
January 31, 1999
Converting equipment
Colgate-Palmolive clarifies its polypropylene position (sidebar)
Colgate-Palmolive moves to a three-resin strategy
January 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Chuy's preps pouches for sauces
Plastic pouches enable Chuy's restaurants to store, cool and reheat fresh sauces for on-demand use at each outlet. Easier handling and improved food safety also benefit this Texas restaurant group.
January 31, 1999
Flexibles
Packaging's synergistic era will push professionals in new century (whenever it arrives)
Have you noticed?
January 31, 1999
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