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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 349
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Ice cream maker melts label inventory
Nutrition labeling requirements threatened to throw a real wrench in the works at one family-owned dairy. Thermal-transfer printing on-site was the answer.
November 30, 1998
Sustainability
Brewers pouring into plastic
Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.
November 30, 1998
Palletizing/depalletizing
'Combo' pack puts Tropical Cheese at ease
Checkweigher and metal detector combine to reduce giveaway and help enhance quality control for this maker of natural cheeses marketed to retail and foodservice accounts.
November 30, 1998
Bakery/Snack
Creative compensation keeps packaging people (sidebar)
Retention through tough times
November 30, 1998
Flexibles
Inks save dough for tortilla maker
Switching inks and interfering with a preset ink handling system caused headaches aplenty at this tortilla manufacturer. Now operations are back to normal.
November 30, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Creative compensation keeps packaging people
To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor
November 30, 1998
Flow wrapping
Software helps Hershey slay downtime
Powerful software allows Hershey to automatically gather packaging efficiency data. Local and remote line control and monitoring are added bonuses.
November 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA says Weider's health claims lack muscle
Agency blocks the first effort to use a new expedited approval process for health claims on package labels. Who will try next?
November 30, 1998
Bakery/Snack
Erler ponders what lies ahead
Fred Erler, chairman of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Assn. and vice president of Nordson Corp., delivered a November 11 Eye-Opener Breakfast Session at PMMI's Pack Expo 98 and told his audience that "three new realities" will predominate as we enter the 21st century: globalization, personalized packaging and flexibility.
November 30, 1998
Closures
Dairy debuts an ESL 'first'
Extended-shelf-life milk in gabletop cartons offering 60-day shelf life has been a proven pack- aging format for years. With the recent launch of its Moovers(TM) brand, Smith Dairy Products of Orrville, OH, wants to offer the same 60-day refrigerated shelf life for milk in bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate.
November 30, 1998
Recycling
Dean 'Chugs' along at Pack Expo 98
Overall attendance at November's Pack Expo reached 78괡, setting a new record. That figure is even more impressive considering that the number of international attendees reportedly declined by nearly 3%, presumably due in part to economic difficulties in Asia.
November 30, 1998
Flexibles
Unusual pouch springs forth at Interbev
Spotted at Interbev '98 in Dallas this October was a most intriguing stand-up pouch for Naturelle Spring Water(TM). The 200-mL (6.75 oz) pouches are marketed by SaddleSprings Beverage Co.
November 30, 1998
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