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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
X-ray provides total inspection
A metal detector at the end of each packaging line may be fairly typical for any type of food packaging operation. Herr's tried that route a few years ago, only to experience many false rejects.
August 31, 1996
Food: Page 387
Palletizing/depalletizing
Load 'roping' helps Callery Judge quality
Florida fruit grower produces top quality pallet loads that reflect its computerized state-of-the-art packinghouse technology.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Skin packs serve up Swift's pork chops
A multilayer film coextrusion combined with vacuum skin packaging machines help Swift gain a stronger presence in supermarkets with newer varieties of marinated pork chops.
August 31, 1996
Prepared Foods
Frozen produce marking proposal
The U.S. Customs Service has again proposed that country-of-origin must be marked on the front panel of frozen produce packages. A similar front-panel marking rule by the agency was declared null and void in 1994 by the Court of International Trade.
August 31, 1996
Flexibles
Drop-in replacement film cuts costs
President Baking Co., Atlanta, GA, saved 10% in material costs by making a switch in films for its Famous Amos® brand cookies in a 16-oz bag-in-box package.
August 31, 1996
Prepared Foods
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
American Frozen Food Institute (McLean, VA): McNair Bishop, vp, industry & govt. affairs.
August 31, 1996
Bakery/Snack
Pack Expo eye-openers scheduled
Attendees at Pack Expo 96 can pick up unique insights on future packaging challenges by attending three Eye-Opener Breakfast Sessions. All three sessions will run from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.
August 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
Frozen--and functional--Paradise
Frozen Paradise Drinks(TM), Seagram Beverage Co.'s late entry to the successful premixed, shelf-stable frozen drink category, may prove that good things happen to those who wait.
August 31, 1996
Closures
Casual tamperers tempted no more
An unlikely "marketer"--the State of Maryland--has taken steps to discourage casual tampering of crab meat packed in containers with snap-on lids. Seems that even the best-behaved supermarket shopper will occasionally sneek a peek, whiff or even a bite of that luscious but expensive fresh crab meat.
August 31, 1996
Flexibles
Resins OK'd for fatty food packaging
In June the Food and Drug Administration approved Exxon Chemical's (Houston, TX) Oppera® modified polypropylene film resins for use in direct contact with fatty foods such as salty snacks, processed meats and cheeses, and confectionery items.
August 31, 1996
Flexibles
Twist-wrapper coating
The Twistall System from UCB Transpac (Brussels, Belgium) allows thin films to be used as a twisting material for candy, throat lozenges, or similar applications.
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Heat-resistant resin
Capron® PA 6 and PA 6.6 homopolymer resins from AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ) are heat-resistant and have a high barrier against oxygen, flavor and aroma permeation.
July 31, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
New press focuses on flexibility
Converter Graphic Packaging's Franklin, OH, plant is the first in the U.S. to use a new press that can print flexible packaging by gravure and flexography, and dry-bond laminate and apply cold-seal or hot melt wax-coat in-line. Kroger's coffee bags represent the first commercial application.
July 31, 1996
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