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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Bottle drinks from the stream of technology
American Beverage Marketers warm-fills its Finest Call cocktail mixes into new PET bottles, then injects liquid nitrogen. The LN2 prevents bottle paneling and helps to extend shelf life. The PET bottle replaces PP, providing greater clarity and appeal for the product's introduction to the retail market.
May 31, 1997
Food: Page 376
Contract Packaging
Solid change for pet food
The rapid expansion of pet store chains and specialty pet food products is ample evidence that pet food is a growing category. What's yet to grow is pet food packaging, though Solid Gold Holistic Animal Healthcare may be in the process of changing that.
May 31, 1997
Sustainability
Plastics' broken loop
Recycled-content legislation has receded, environmentalists have been quiet and virgin PET is plentiful and cheap. Packagers are divided on whether to continue their commitments to use post-consumer resin in the U.S. market.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Temperature-sensitive film for fresh produce
Apio Inc. Value Added Group of Guadalupe, CA, is among the first companies to use a new technology for fresh-cut produce packaging. Developed by Landec (Menlo Park, CA), the Intellipac(TM) technology is based on an unusual "side chain crystallizable" polymer having an internal "temperature switch." At elevated temperatures, when respiring produce needs more oxygen, the polymer becomes more permeable, allowing the necessary oxygen in.
May 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
T&A hitches its wagon to a brand
Already a leading marketer of its own branded, value-added, fresh-cut produce, Tanimura & Antle took its fresh-cut program to a whole new level on April 28.
May 31, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Freeze-dried veggies enjoy PVOH shield
A 0.84-mil oriented polypropylene with a coating of polyvinyl alcohol plays a key role in the distribution of Veggibles(TM), a novel freeze-dried vegetable snack from Beverly Hills Farmers Market.
May 31, 1997
Bakery/Snack
Visual inspection system
The Cintex (Kenosha, WI) CPI visual inspection system provides real-time data as it inspects up to 200 plastic, paperboard, or single-sided foil packs/ min.
April 30, 1997
Flexibles
Release sheets
Winlon® Release Sheets from Winzen Film (Dallas, TX) are an alternative to coated paper sheets and are approved by the USDA and FDA. The sheets are available from 0.5 to 0.8 mil and in standard sizes from 7.5" x 7.5" to 22" x 28", as well as custom thicknesses and sizes.
April 30, 1997
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
The king of cups
Start-up company Dr. McDougall's Right Foods had lofty targets for packaging speed and accuracy. So it invested heavily in sophisticated packaging equipment before it even had a product ready for the marketplace.
April 30, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
UV flexo technology provides economic relief
Narrow-web UV flexo press allows folding carton converter Mebane Packaging to reduce costs, while it increases flexibility for Bristol-Myers Squibb.
April 30, 1997
Closures
Matrix finds 'suede' takes special handling (sidebar)
Additional winners include:
April 30, 1997
Secondary Packaging
Sara Lee launches MAP-packed Bragels
Modified atmosphere packaging that gives filled bagels a seven-day non-refrigerated shelf life may provide another reason why nobody doesn't like Chicago-based Sara Lee®.
April 30, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
In the eye of the beholder
Good looks and marketing muscle characterize this year's cosmetics and personal care winners in NACD's annual packaging competition.
April 30, 1997
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