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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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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Flexible packaging
Packaging revolution IS changing everything
"This changes everything." That line, taken from a recent crop of Chrysler ads, would have us believe the company's doing something revolutionary in its field.
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn (sidebar)
HDPE container production 'captiv-ates' AquaPenn
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Sweetening your medicine
A new auger filler/checkweighing system allows Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturer to double its output and incorporate a new formulation onto its line.
August 31, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Machinery receives 'heavy' emphasis at Pack Expo West
PMMI's second Western show will feature 25% more machinery than '95 during its run in Las Vegas, Oct. 13 to 16. Co-located International Exposition for Food Processors and Solutions 97 conference will add a processing flavor.
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Ball inspects becausePepsi expects quality
On-line machine vision system helps Ball's Chino, CA, plant deliver high volumes of PET bottles to Pepsi-Cola's California bottlers.
August 31, 1997
Beverage
Soaring demands, shrinking resources
Readers are concerned with unequal pay, heavier workloads for shrinking staffs, and constant crisis control. Packaging World's first exclusive salary and job satisfaction survey reveals a majority are content with their paychecks.
August 31, 1997
Sustainability
3Com relies on 'greener' loose fill
A leading manufacturer of routers, hubs, switches, modems, and other computer networking devices, 3Com Corp. has a strong record of responsible environmental leadership.
August 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Machinery receives 'heavy' emphasis at Pack Expo West (sidebar)
Learning in Las Vegas
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
PepsiCo tests canned snacks
Some Pepsi-Cola can vending machines are now offering consumers something to go along with their cold drink preference: Fritos and Doritos chips and Rold Gold pretzels.
August 31, 1997
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Poultry law hit
For decades the beef industry has complained that USDA regulations give poultry a competitive edge, since current regulations allow poultry to take in as much as 8% water during the chilling process without any mention of additional water on the label.
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
General Mills' cartons go 'Jurassic'
Coinciding with the release of the popular movie "The Lost World: Jurassic Park(TM)", Minneapolis-based General Mills introduced Jurassic Park Crunch cereal in an 111/4-oz carton and a 301/2-oz twin-pack size.
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
Plastics packaging for milk reduces waste
Despite a 22% increase in milk consumption within the province of Ontario between 1968 and 1995, the amount of solid waste from milk packaging is down 20%.
August 31, 1997
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