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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexible packaging
Foods fit fine in flexibles
Half of the 12 winners in this year's FPA awards competition for excellence in flexible packaging are food packages. A broad range of food categories are represented.
February 28, 1997
Food: Page 379
Bakery/Snack
Bowl prompts 'Super' packages
The popularity of the Super Bowl again found manufacturers romancing consumers through promotional packaging. Minneapolis-based General Mills, for example, continued its commemorative packaging for the event with what Wheaties® brand marketing manager Jay Heflin describes as "breakthrough packaging." Heflin refers to five Super Bowl Super Replay Motion Cards on specially marked boxes of Wheaties, Crispy Wheaties 'N Raisins(TM) and Honey Frosted Wheaties®.
February 28, 1997
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Aquaria's new 'bait' catches more customers
New graphics on new bags packed in a new way have dramatically improved the look of aquarium filter packs. The appearance catches on with more retailers, too.
February 28, 1997
Flexibles
EPA tries to color converters 'green'
Pricing and performance of flexible packaging could be affected by EPA's new regulatory programs and by voluntary changes, too.
February 28, 1997
Flexibles
Not just for breakfast anymore
Films created with additive vitamin E offer protection at least equal to that of BHT-impregnated films, according to a Michigan State University study.
February 28, 1997
Dairy
No uniformity in changeover demands (sidebar)
Changeover not critical to some
February 28, 1997
Bakery/Snack
FDA allows first food-specific health claim
Setting an important precedent, Chicago-based Quaker Oats is the first company to apply for and receive permission from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to make food-specific health claims on its packages.
February 28, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
A well 'thawed-out' solution
J&J Snacks needed to automate pallet wrapping in its freezer warehouse. But only a specially insulated wrapper could function at temperatures as low as
February 28, 1997
Secondary Packaging
No uniformity in changeover demands
Almost any way you measure packaging line changeover, the answers from Packaging World readers vary widely. The major agreement is that more changes are being demanded-and less time is available for doing them. However, the strategies for hastening change
February 28, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Value-added packaging goes to sea
Seattle fish processor vacuum packs salmon right on board its two ships for sale to Japanese markets. Now there's no need to thaw and refreeze, so quality is improved.
February 28, 1997
Tamper-evident machinery
Sara Lee puts its brand on take-home foods
Look out Boston Market!
February 28, 1997
Protective/transport packaging
Void-fill maker
The CorruGuard(TM) Former is an innovative machine from Appleton Mfg. Div. (Neenah, WI) that converts waste corrugated material into patented forms of void-fill.
January 31, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
PP/polyester film
Q-PET(TM) is a patent-pending coextruded multilayer film with a core layer of PP and surface layers of polyester. This offers users a significant cost reduction over traditional PP, says the company.
January 31, 1997
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