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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Secondary Packaging
A short course on plastics technology
A new book promises to explain plastics packaging technology to scientists, engineers, even college graduates who begin new jobs and need a quick tutorial.
August 31, 1998
Food: Page 355
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA to streamline dietary supplement labels
Agency proposes to shrink options for health claims, product names and symbols that can be used by makers of vitamins, supplements and herbals.
August 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Displaying a concern for retailers' needs
Fremont custom-designs a new type of display-ready, film-wrapped shipper around the needs of supermarket customers. A new case-packing/shrink-wrapping line makes the design a production reality, paid for by materials savings.
August 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Caito says, 'We'll do it ourselves'
This Indianapolis produce wholesaler is breaking into a whole new market segment as it brings its 12-oz Fresh Line fruit bowls to supermarket produce departments in the Midwest.
August 31, 1998
Dairy
Packaging positions ice cream for upscale sales (sidebar)
Positioning for high retail pricing
August 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
Longer life for life-saving blood product
SiOX-coated film delivers the barrier properties required for this human blood substitute product. Film clarity lets clinicians perform important visual inspection.
August 31, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Packaging positions ice cream for upscale sales
Farm Fresh's new all-plastic, rectangular ice cream package features full-coverage, in-mold-labeled graphics, believed to be one of the first applications of its kind in the U.S.
August 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
PET spreads to mayonnaise
Manufacturers looking to stand out from the competition introduce mayonnaise in 32-oz PET bottles. They cite reduced breakage and lower freight costs as plastic's advantages, while cost and shelf life are competitive with glass.
August 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
The Web's new trick: it's now useful
In our daily strolls out onto the Internet, we are noticing that an increasing number of web sites have become more sophisticated, offering genuinely useful information to packagers.
August 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labeling uniformity bill introduced
The "National Uniformity for Food Act of 1998," designed to ensure consistent food labeling requirements, has been introduced in both the House and Senate.
August 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Produce, meat labeling
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) scored a major victory when an amendment requiring front panel country-of-origin labeling on frozen produce was dropped before being included in the Senate's FY '99 Agriculture Appropriations bill.
August 31, 1998
Converting equipment
Pace picks barrier bottle for picante sauce
In July Campbell Soup's Pace Foods, San Antonio, TX, rolled out its picante sauce in a proprietary 20-oz squeezable plastic barrier bottle.
August 31, 1998
Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings
Chinese sauce maker is secure with ink-jet coding
In Guangzhou, China, a recent conversion from contact stamp coders to ink-jet coding is helping guarantee the authenticity and quality of Jammy Chai Food Co.'s flavorful bottled sauces.
August 31, 1998
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