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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 382
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
No clear 'vision' from FDA on label inspection
Agency hopes to give additional detailed directions to drug manufacturers on the requirements for verifying cut labels and other components.
December 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
Retailers' influence strengthens over packaging
ECR, pre-built displays and J-I-T delivery are just three reasons why many retailers are now calling the shots on both primary and secondary packaging. Three of the largest manufacturers help converters understand how they respond.
December 31, 1996
Sustainability
Plastic beer bottle could be big
Australian brewing giant Carlton United Breweries has high hopes for a barrier beer bottle made of plastic. In the meantime, it's launched a monolayer PET bottle that's causing quite a stir.
December 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
Header labels applied automatically
Three years in the making, a machine that automatically applies header labels to pouches produced on vertical form/fill/seal machines is ready for the packaging marketplace.
December 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Skimming fat, not nutrients
FDA has issued new rules on milk labeling designed to eliminate consumer confusion about the fat content of milk and milk products. Until now, milk was not held to the same nutrition labeling standards as other products on the use of terms like "low fat." As a result, many consumers believed skim milk contained fewer nutrients than other types, and that 2% milk was low fat.
December 31, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
No-fluff package
O'Tec, Inc., one of the few producers of bagged cotton candy for the retail market, attributes much of its success to the high-barrier flexible bag it uses to protect the spun sugar from moisture.
December 31, 1996
Flexibles
Patent infringement suit judgment expected soon
As Packaging World goes to press, a U.S. Federal District Court judge in Chicago had yet to make a final decision concerning the dollar amount awarded to Viskase (Bedford Park, IL).
December 31, 1996
Bakery/Snack
Packagers challenged on logistics engineering
As a packaging professional, where do you go with Efficient Consumer Response?
December 31, 1996
Flexibles
Uncanny developments at Campbell Soup
Campbell Soup Co. (Camden, NJ) has an undeserved reputation as a one-product/one-package company. It almost never has been a single product company, and it has always used a variety of packaging forms.
November 30, 1996
Flexibles
Only leaders need apply
In the year 2000, say Packaging World sources, the key ingredient in a director of packaging will be dynamic leadership skills. The candidate had better be a people person, too, and be able to wear a number of interdisciplinary hats.
November 30, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Duralam presses for short and sweet runs
Flexible packaging converter Duralam is among the first to use a quick changeover flexo press for short-run jobs. One of its most challenging is a reverse-printed OPP structure used for bags of Sun*Maid candy.
November 30, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Dairy makes markets abroad
German dairy starts up two aseptic thermoform/fill/seal lines that produce yogurt and pudding with a 130-day unrefrigerated shelf life.
November 30, 1996
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