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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexible packaging
Nature's Pleasures launches fresh-cut apple slic es
This processor may not be the first to package apple slices in an extended shelf-life MAP format. But management believes its technology gives it an edge over those who pioneered the concept.
September 30, 1997
Food: Page 370
Beverage
Purchasing people lack pay, sourcing opportunities
Purchasing agents are compensated the lowest among all respondents to Packaging World's exclusive salary survey. They say opportunities are being missed for sourcing better materials and arranging strategic partnerships with suppliers.
September 30, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Running long and going strong
Metal detectors and checkweighers 'run and run and run' at Grimmway Farms' high-volume, washdown-environment carrot processing plant.
September 30, 1997
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Modem bridges 8,000-mile gap
New Zealand's Grated Cheese Co. relies on its vendor's engineers for tech support of its new combination weigher-from 8ꯠ miles away.
September 30, 1997
Contract Packaging
Canned marketing
Last month it was Pepsi/Frito-Lay snacks in a can for vending machines (see PW, Sept. '97, p. 4). What else does the future hold for automated vending?
September 30, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Cooking up hot graphics
"It really screams barbecue." That's how Tony Arancio, product buyer at Lechters, Inc., describes the new Cooks Club BBQ line, sold nationally through the Harrison, NJ-based Lechters chain.
September 30, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Country of origin
Diehards are still attempting to require front panel country-of-origin marking on packages of frozen fruits and vegetables. In the latest developments, Rep.
September 30, 1997
Flexibles
Fruit snack comes in a 'nifty' cup
Introduced in late August at 7-Eleven stores across the country was Sunfresh® FruitJelite(TM), a fruit gelatin snack in a colorful textured cup and foil lid.
September 30, 1997
Labels
Dean Foods unveils HDPE bottles for milk
As Packaging World went to press, Franklin, IL-based Dean Foods was introducing its new Milk Chug line of bottled milks in resealable pint, quart and 8-oz high-density polyethylene bottles.
September 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
Nestlé 'Flipz' for new bag
Nestlé Chocolate & Confections, a division of Glendale, CA-based Nestlé U.S.A., introduced Pretzel Flipz(TM) nationwide in August in the Stabilo Bag® from Rovema (Lawrenceville, GA).
August 31, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Auger filler for dry, flowable products
Developed to replace volumetric cup fillers, the Neotron System® is a multi-auger filler from GEI Mateer Burt (Wayne, PA) that fills dry, flowable products like soup base, parmesan cheese, drink mixes and spices into PS and paperboard containers 10-up.
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn
In an on-site container production partnership first, bottle maker Schmalbach-Lubeca leases a portion of AquaPenn's facility to reheat and blow PET preforms into bottles that AquaPenn fills at the same site.
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Widmer's bottle inspectors craft success
Widmer Brothers verifies fill level, missing crowns, as well as full cases of its newly introduced 12-oz bottles of beer. Newer bottling line produces draft 'biers' much like kegs.
August 31, 1997
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