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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Clinton serves up food safety (sidebar)
President's Council: A catch-all for ideas
December 31, 1998
Food: Page 348
Closures
New year queries: Are you euro conversant? Are you Y2K compliant?
Tick...tick...tick...A quickie quiz to open the new year. A euro is: A. The hood ornament of a German sports car.
December 31, 1998
Cartoning
Tf/f/s machine big on performance, not price
Contract packager finds Argentine-built thermoform/fill/seal blister packaging equipment provides fast and flexible changeover capabilities at an economical price.
December 31, 1998
Additives, coatings & inks
Clinton serves up food safety
Food companies seem likely to face tighter scrutiny of how packaging is stored and used under proposals. New EPA testing could finger some materials.
December 31, 1998
Sustainability
Meadow Gold milks coding machinery
It wasn't too long ago that a one-line, 12-digit code was all that Southern Foods was able to hot-stamp onto its one-gal, high-density polyethylene jugs of Meadow Gold-brand milk.
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Warning to states: no warning labels
At the top of the food industry's 1999 congressional agenda will be a bill outlawing most state food labeling laws. Legislation that pre-empts state authority is always controversial.
December 31, 1998
Dairy
Supplier news: Achievements
Bomatic, Inc. (Ontario, CA) has received an IMS Certification in PET packaging to supply the milk industry.-ISO 9001 certification: Dynaroll Inc. (San Fernando, CA); Weber Marking Systems, Inc.
December 31, 1998
Flexibles
Dairy bottle blocks light?
In unveiling last month a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate for 16-oz milk, Dallas-based Schepps Dairy was not the first to put fresh, refrigerated milk in PET (see Packaging World, November '97, p.
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Global regs a trade threat?
Proposals for new international requirements on biotech-enhanced products pose a significant threat to global trade in food, beverages and other consumer products, warns the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA).
December 31, 1998
Contract Packaging
Shrink band decorates Christmas tree package
Italian chocolate manufacturer Perugina has exported chocolate-covered cherries to the U.S. at Christmas time for several years now. But this year for the first time the Christmas tree-shaped package that holds the foil-wrapped delicacies comes with an added component: a polyvinyl chloride band.
December 31, 1998
Labels
New graphics please packager and its customer
"The consumer gets a better package and we benefit as well."That's how Beaverton Foods' chief executive officer Bill Small describes his firm's recent switch from screen-printed glass jars to jars deco-rated with full-body shrink-sleeve labels for 16 varieties of Inglehoffer brand condiments.
December 31, 1998
Protective/transport packaging
Pet treats maker chooses 'greener' void fill
The folks at Bone Appetit, maker of gourmet pet treats, have revised their thinking about foam peanuts as void fill. They now prefer Sylvacurl, recyclable, biodegradable and reusable wood shavings from Eastview Enterprises (East Hardwick, VT).
December 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Pressure-sensitive labeler
EPI's (New Freedom, PA) Flex-Pac Labeler(TM) is designed to integrate with Sandiacre packaging equipment used widely in the frozen food, produce and candy markets.
November 30, 1998
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