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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
On-line case printing supports ECR at Borden
In addition to simplified inventory, faster changeovers, and material cost savings, on-line case coding at six Borden plants means faster response to customer needs.
January 31, 1997
Food: Page 381
Flexibles
Masterbatch for films and trays
Adding ProFresh masterbatch from E-I-A Warenhandels (Vienna, Austria) to PE film and PS or PE trays can delay unwanted deterioration of meats, produce and flowers.
January 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
Balluff, Inc. (Florence, KY): James C. Birkmeyer, sales and mktg. mgr.; David R. Bird, sensor product sales mgr.; Robert W.
January 31, 1997
Bakery/Snack
Supplier news: International agreements
Pechiney (Paris, France), Schmalbach-Lubeca AG/Continental Can Europe (Ratingen, Germany) and Doughty Hanson & Co. (London, England) will form a new company which will combine their food can, general line and steel aerosol businesses.
January 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Label this one a winner
A package redesign for Canadian Mist blended Canadian whisky earned manufacturer Brown Forman Beverages Worldwide a 1996 Pyramid Award for excellence in labeling from the Films Div.
January 31, 1997
Closures
Spouted cartons extend milk's shelf life
Alta Dena® Certified Dairy is one of the first U.S. dairies to use SPOUT-PAK® spouted paperboard gabletop cartons from International Paper (Memphis, TN).
January 31, 1997
Prepared Foods
Campbell tests home delivery program
Last month in Ohio, Campbell Soup Co. began testing its Intelligent Quisine concept. The three-meals-per-day, 10-week program includes more than 40 items-from sirloin beef tips to French toast with sausage to peanut butter bars-that are shipped via UPS to consumers' homes.
January 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Reclosable label puts Andy Capp's into party size
Whether the motivation was to sell through club stores or just to offer a larger pack, GoodMark Foods, Raleigh, NC, has begun to use reclosable labels in a big way.
January 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Ulcer therapy pack touts ease of use
Introduced in December, Procter & Gamble's new Helidac(TM) ulcer eradication therapy is packaged in a 14-day cube-shaped "kit" designed to make the new three-drug prescription medication easy to take several times a day.
January 31, 1997
Bakery/Snack
Waking the Dough Boy
Pillsbury Canada Ltd.'s recent overhaul of its Refrigerated Baked Goods Business was more than just skin deep. Larger portions, increased product offerings, and an aggresive advertising campaign were all part of an effort to stir this sleeping product category.
January 31, 1997
Dairy
Neckband doubles as UPC label for milk
When Floresville, TX-based Promised Land Dairy debuted its all-natural flavored milks in old-style glass jars about a year ago, management elected to use a single universal glass bottle for quarts and another for half-gallons.
January 31, 1997
Labeling
Labeling meat substitutes
FDA and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) want to encourage more nutritious variations of traditional foods, but are wrestling with how such foods should be labeled.
January 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Oscar Mayer rolls out lunch pack for adults
Since 1988, says Oscar Mayer, more than one billion prepackaged Lunchables®-brand lunch combinations have been consumed. Based on that product's success with kids, the Madison, WI, Kraft Foods division introduced in November Lunchables Deli-Carryouts(TM) sandwich combinations for adults.
January 31, 1997
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