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Conveying & accumulation
Water bottling line completed by farmer (sidebar)
Making do
March 31, 1998

Food: Page 363

Sustainable Packaging
Grappling with eco-fees
Packagers shipping abroad can't afford to leave data reporting requirements and fee liabilities out of package design decisions.
March 31, 1998
The idea of a single ?green dot? logo 9;used in several European countries 9;belies the complexity behind each country?s requi
Secondary Packaging
The Sunkist seal of approval
Open cases were a hassle for Sunkist Growers affiliate Baird-Neece Packing Corp. A dual hot and cold glue system solves the problem, and increases output.
March 31, 1998
A combination of hot melt and cold glue placement helps maintain seal integrity on citrus cases (above). Harley Nuckels (lef
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Water bottling line completed by farmer (sidebar)
Selecting containers
March 31, 1998
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Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding
Catching the rays
Packagers seek FDA approval of resins for use in overwrapping and trays for irradiated beef and poultry.
March 31, 1998
Fresh steaks are vacuum-packaged in clear films using an ionomer sealant layer, and then boxed for shipping
Cartoning
Looking for machinery trends? Read PMMI's numbers; forget DoC's
Ben Miyares is editor and publisher of the newsletter Packaging Management. He may be reached at 31408 Narragansett Lane, Bay Village, OH 44140. Telephone: 440/892-0998; Fax: 440/892-0208; e-mail: [email protected].
March 31, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Water bottling line completed by farmer
To bottle its spring water in volume, Wisconsin farmer uses creativity to complete an automated bottling line. Homemade feeders and some change parts help keep total costs low.
March 31, 1998
Bottles are conveyed up and into the bowl of the unscrambler thanks to a feeder that Ledge Rock had fabricated locally. The sam
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Donnybrook over spring brooks (sidebar)
Putting the squeeze on fresh fruit juice
March 31, 1998
The label from the Just Pik?t brand emphasizes the juice is not pasteurized but rather frozen when it?s fresh
Flexible packaging
Tortilla packs always get a date
La Siesta Foods tested a new ink-jet coder designed for food processing plants. Better reliability, easy cleaning and operation, and improved portability cut downtime for tortilla bakery.
March 31, 1998
After each bag is coded, it passes through a metal detector and is discharged onto a turntable for manual case packing
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Catching the rays (sidebar)
Old MacDonald never had this kind of farm
March 31, 1998
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
New machines and materials fuel prepackaged fresh beef (sidebar)
New measures for meat profits?
March 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter
Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.
March 31, 1998
A sample print run for a Nestlé frozen novelty wrap promoting Walt Disney?s Hercules movie displays the impression-by-impres
Conveying & accumulation
New machines and materials fuel prepackaged fresh beef
An unusual foam tray, seven-layer coextruded lidding, a high-speed rotary backflushing/lidding machine, and weigh/price labeling let this Florida meat packer respond to supermarket demand for case-ready ground beef.
March 31, 1998
Near the end of the automated ground beef packaging line are two blow-down p-s labelers. The first (right) applies a label car
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