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Sold to school foodservice programs in five states, these fresh apples in MAP pouches are a big hit with students
Flexible packaging
Apple and tortilla packs break the foodservice routine
Fresh, sliced apples for school foodservice customers and tortillas for hotel and restaurant kitchens both come in packages that look like they were lifted from a retail setting.
June 30, 1998

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Bakery/Snack
Brands 'Sing' with consistency
Tying in with recent graphic updates of Michelina's® and new Michelina's Lean 'n Tasty(TM) brands, redesigned packaging for Michelina's Yu Sing® entrees and egg rolls began reaching store freezers this April.
June 30, 1998
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Dairy
PMMI expects really big show
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (Arlington, VA) says Pack Expo 98, November 8-12 in Chicago, will be a record setter. On April 30, exhibit space stood at 1걗꼬 net sq'.
June 30, 1998
Flexibles
Fresh French soup takes shrink-film label
Boldly decorated and full bodied, shrink-film labels have captured beverage marketers in a big way. Now Soup Ideale, a soup manufacturer in Saint Laurent, Blangy, France, is using a shrink-film label for 1-L bottles of fresh, refrigerated soup in high-density polyethylene bottles.
June 30, 1998
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Egg carton labeling
As part of a new initiative to ensure the food safety of fresh eggs, the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed to require safe handling labels on egg cartons.
June 30, 1998
Tamper-evident machinery
Bayer adds TE to wide-mouth cap
A wide-mouth TE cap offers extra safety for Bayer's agricultural insecticide. Neck rings in the mold make it easier to change the container finish for the cap.
May 31, 1998
Pesticide applicators lift a tab (far left) to remove a very visible tamper-evident band from the 110-mm, one-piece polypropyl
Labels
The incredible power of shrink packaging
Shrink packaging of bottles, jars, cups and other rigid containers has amazing product merchandising and protection powers. While assuring the wholesomeness of food and beverages contained, shrink packaging can also transform a container frog into a packaging prince.
May 31, 1998
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Cartoning
Carton takes Chessters to supermarket freezers
Rhino Foods of Burlington, VT, had a nice little business going with Chessters, a frozen chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich named after a Chesapeake Bay retriever.
May 31, 1998
Rhino Foods is relying on artwork by a prominent Vermont artist to help its Chessters frozen cookie sandwiches cut through the
Flexible packaging
Pouched beverages pour into global markets
A stand-up, spouted pouch for an energy gel filled in the U.S. and sold in Japan, a first-of-its-kind milk pouch in Germany, and a stand-up frozen fruit pouch MAP-packed in Costa Rica illustrate the global power of the pouch.
May 31, 1998
A stand-up pouch with a pour spout is expected to help Nu Skin?s SportaGEL energy gel stand apart from the competition when it?s
Flexible packaging
Future shock (sidebar)
Blue-sky packaging ideas
May 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
Pouched beverages pour into global markets (sidebar)
While it contains no liquid, Quaker Oats' new "dual pack" for its 100% Natural Granola is bound to make waves in the cold cereal category.
May 31, 1998
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Clicking, polishing, adhering, deterring
From shoe polish in plastic to a "clickable" cream deodorant, innovative containers, materials and equipment took center stage at Pakex '98.
May 31, 1998
Consumers can see the shoe polish through this clear PET container. Cream deodorant (below left) is dispensed from this novel co
Flexibles
Trebla 'develops' pouch for U.S., foreign markets
U.S. maker of photoprocessing liquids moves to a stand-up, handled pouch pre-made in Switzerland. With its thicker LLDPE/adhesive/nylon structure, the film allows the pour-spouted pouch to better withstand shipping rigors than a previous version.
May 31, 1998
Trebla?s 2-L stand-up pouches are filled through their pour spouts at rates of 16/min, which is the total output of four filling
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