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On Valley's newest 200'-long labeling/sortation/collating line, cassettes, CDs and videos are manually loaded into the 10 dispen
Conveying & accumulation
A new record for distributed control
Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.
September 30, 1998

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Beverage
The color of branding
A design veteran formerly with Kraft and P&G cites package examples that succeeded in meeting brand positioning objectives-plus some that did not.
September 30, 1998
Colors differentiate each variety in Kraft?s line of flavored cream cheese (left). Prior to the redesign, consumers found it ha
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Packagers struggle with staffing
Manufacturers in virtually every industry-including food, beverage, pharmaceutical and even electronics-report that it's getting harder and harder to find and keep good packaging people.
September 30, 1998
Downsizing of packaging departments in the past few years is creating a shortage of packaging professionals ?with a good history
Flexibles
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit'
Many companies look for packaging professionals at schools with packaging curricula, and some successful companies begin the process before students even graduate.
September 30, 1998
At Kraft Foods? Tarrytown, NY, development laboratories, co-op students work side-by-side with experienced professionals like Ri
Protective/transport packaging
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Euro mandates.
September 30, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
A new record for distributed control (sidebar)
Profibus network explained
September 30, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
How to find the best new hires in packaging
In today's tight labor market, companies are implementing a variety of strategies-some new, some tried and true-to attract the best talent to their packaging functions.
September 30, 1998
Like Hewlett-Packard, whose jobs web site is shown here, more and more firms are relying on the Internet to attract people to pa
Flexibles
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Technology breakthroughs on display.
September 30, 1998
Beverage
Machinery trainers need upgrading
Three major manufacturers emphasize how important training has become when they evaluate packaging equipment to buy. Too often, technician/trainers know machines, but not how to teach.
September 30, 1998
Machinery builders listened to this panel explaining what manufacturers want in training to accompany machine or line purchases:
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
An open-and-shut case for reclosability
Pharmaceutical company Galderma Laboratories switches to a reclosable clamshell for its sample size of prescription topical medicines that's 35% cheaper than before.
September 30, 1998
Galderma?s MetroCream is now available in a reclosable clamshell package so patients can test at the doctor?s office and reclos
Prepared Foods
Home cooking contest
Stouffer's freezer icon, the red box line of entrees, is about to make some cook rather famous. Nestlé USA's Food Group, Solon, OH, has begun to advertise a "real home cooking" contest, whose grand prize winner will have his or her name and picture right on the package that contains the entree "inspired" by the winning recipe.
September 30, 1998
Beverage
GPI names 12 Clear Choice winners
The Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) named 12 Clear Choice Award Winners for 1998. New in '98 is the Glass Classics category, intended to highlight the competition's 10th anniversary, and the winner was Canandaigua Wine Co.
September 30, 1998
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Flexibles
Kraft matches cottage cheese and fruit
A thermoformed dual-compartment polystyrene container is being used by Kraft Foods for its new Cottage Doubles(TM) product. Available in refrigerated sections of supermarkets and Wal-Mart stores since June, Doubles are sold nationwide in three 5.5-oz varieties.
September 30, 1998
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