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Flexibles
Stand-up package
To help customers maximize shelf space, Tiromat (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany) has introduced the TiroFreeze stand-up package for frozen products. These packages are thermoformed foamed PP trays topped with BOPP film, with or without a window.
October 31, 1998

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
North American Automation: Buffer-feeder system
Rotzinger's Mold-to-Wrap confectionery handling system for misshapen molded products, such as chocolate candies, will be on display through North American Automation (Glen Ellyn, IL).
October 31, 1998
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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Teamwork pays off for everyone
Wise and its film suppliers work together to develop a new metallized oriented polypropylene film that can handle the demands of potato chip packaging.
October 31, 1998
Roland Baker (inset) checks the nitrogen level in bags of Wise potato chips. To package its chips, Wise Foods, uses 33 bagging m
Containers
Sam's Club product labels turn private
Long known for presenting national-brand merchandise, Wal-Mart's Sam's Club introduces new private-label Member's Mark line, in everything from soup to jeans.
October 31, 1998
New packages bearing the Member?s Mark logo have been available for several months. Many of the early packages use flexible ma
Converting equipment
Welch's 'concentrates' on plastic can
Under development for nearly eight years, an all-plastic, easy-open, microwavable canister is now appearing in East Coast freezer cases holding several varieties of frozen juice concentrates for Welch's, Concord, MA.
October 31, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Jar line is a royal flush
Universal Foods' Red Star Yeast Div. boosts production five-fold with a new jar line. Nitrogen flushing consistently reduces headspace oxygen below 1%.
October 31, 1998
Arotating plate ?broadcasts? or spreads yeast into a bisected funnel (above, inset) that channels the flow of yeast into two ja
Conveying & accumulation
Nut bowl offers microwavability and more
Plastic bowl for nuts and snacks is microwavable, reclosable and convenient. Barrier materials extend shelf life, and footed bottom allows stand-up on-shelf display.
October 31, 1998
Near the head of the line, the black bowls in their carrier plates pass beneath the twin hoppers (left) of the filling station.
Beverage
Packaging World's experts
The following list of packaging professionals, human resources officers, recruiters and industry observers are the people who made possible our special report on The Staffing Struggle.
October 31, 1998
Closures
Beam it down...in size
FDA now says 'irradiation' disclosure on food labels doesn't have to be a 'warning label.' Still, the food industry hopes for more concessions from the Food Safety & Inspection Service.
October 31, 1998
Tamper-evident machinery
Lilly likes PEN for veterinary product
A new treatment for respiratory problems in pigs and chickens is administered in the field, where the breakability of glass packaging is a concern. A homopolymer PEN bottle provides a shatter-resistant answer and delivers all the shelf life needed.
October 31, 1998
The first PEN bottle of Pulmotil AC to reach the marketplace was the 250-mL size, shown here with its extended text label. The l
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
How training aids in recruiting
When Hunt-Wesson planned a state-of-the-art aseptic pudding production and packaging plant, it worked with a local community college to ensure its new hires were ready for the plant's high technology.
October 31, 1998
At Hunt-Wesson?s huge new Waterloo, IA, aseptic pudding plant (below), technical training was a primary ingredient. While much t
Bakery/Snack
Retaining part-time help (sidebar)
Government forecasts 'cloudy' for packaging labor
October 31, 1998
Flexibles
Home meal replacements stay hot
With Americans still clamoring for convenience in the kitchen, food marketers find packaging that offers opportunities in the home meal replacement category.
October 31, 1998
Stouffer Foods is launching ?Skillet Sensations,? frozen, stand-up, pouch-packed HMRs, which are expected to be in full nati
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