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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 352
Flexibles
Home meal replacements stay hot (sidebar)
Home-delivered HMRs
October 31, 1998
Flexibles
Employee retention through TLC
Want to keep packaging professionals from seeking opportunities elsewhere? Demonstrate clearly how much you want them in your 'career tent.'
October 31, 1998
Dairy
Supplier news: International agreements
A mutually exclusive agreement signed by Twinpak's (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) dairy and food packaging group and RPC Bebo Plastik GmbH (Bremervorde, Germany) grants both parties access to the other's marketing and technology rights for their own market regions.
October 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
Plastic packs let Jobe's grow outdoors
Easy Gardener introduces a stand-up pouch and overwrapped "cookie pack" for its outdoor plant, tree and garden fertilizers. Replacing paperboard cartons, the plastic packs withstand moisture in flourishing outdoor lawn-and-garden centers.
October 31, 1998
Sustainable Packaging
People do make the difference
By now, you know that Packaging World doesn't frivolously publish editorials. This month, I'm turning over this editorial space to John Wasserlein, who, just a few months before his retirement from Fraser Papers (Stamford, CT) as president and CEO, addressed the graduates at the University of Maine with a message that's at the core of our special reports on recruiting and retaining talented employees.
October 31, 1998
Labeling
New egg labeling
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has decreed that as of August 1999 egg cartons must bear a label indicating that eggs must be refrigerated and that uncracked, uncooked eggs must be kept at a temperature of 45°F while being processed and shipped to consumers.
October 31, 1998
Closures
Candy container for captured creatures
Amurol Confections had kid collectors in mind with its Bug City package, a polystyrene jar filled with 2.4 oz of insect-shaped candy tarts. The Bug City product is not new.
October 31, 1998
Converting equipment
Jams and jellies take to PET
Recent advances in injection stretch/ blow molding technology have made it possible for food marketers to hot-fill foods into wide-mouth jars made of heat-set polyethylene terephthalate.
October 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
No imported meat labeling
The food industry breathed a sigh of relief when House and Senate conferees agreed to drop from the 1999 Agriculture Appropriations bill a requirement that all fresh and processed meat products containing imported beef or lamb be labeled "imported." The labeling requirement would have covered everything from ground beef to frozen dinner entrees.
October 31, 1998
Closures
Palm Beach style for every consumer
Lake Success, NY-based Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, makers of AriZona beverages, is introducing a new malt liquor product called Palm Beach. The two cocktail-style drink flavors, Margarita and Cosmopolitan, are in frosted-glass, flask-style bottles.
October 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
P&G tests snacks in stand-up, resealable pouches
Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has begun test-marketing Eagle-brand snack foods in stand-up pouches with zipper reclosures. The test, which began in August, is only in Portland, ME.
October 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Cellulose film is a star
Candy maker Bonbons Napoleon NV has started packaging its sweets in UCB Films' (Smynra, GA) Star-Twist(TM) 315 XC.
October 31, 1998
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