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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 388
Flexibles
New thermoform makes tuna salad easier
After a '90s makeover, Charlie the StarKist Tuna resurfaces on packages of a new product, Ready Mixed Tuna Salad & Crackers. The product is a more convenient form of the Lunch Kit that StarKist Seafoods, Newport, KY, has been marketing for about four years.
July 31, 1996
Containers
Shrink graphics fire up hot sauce sales
Bold shrink band graphics that simulate molten lava erupting from 5 oz glass bottles of Little Freddy's Hot Lava hot sauce have spurred product sales by 15 to 20%.
July 31, 1996
Converting equipment
Brewers turn to PET bottles, wide-mouth cans
A six-month shelf life is claimed for amber 1-L bottles of polyethylene terephthalate holding dark beers produced and marketed by Canada's Algonquin Brewing Co., Ltd., Mississauga, Ont.
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Clear surgical glove pouch carves out high-end niche
At a time when most surgical glove pouches consist of paper webs that are cold-sealed together, ECI Medical Technologies is positioning its product at the high end by introducing gloves in a clear film pouch that's printed gravure in two colors.
July 31, 1996
Closures
Natrel nets 30-day shelf life
A 30-day shelf life for fresh refrigerated milk?
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Love Box Co. (Wichita, KS) opened an office and warehouse in Columbia, MO.
June 30, 1996
Closures
Dispensing closure
Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) has introduced the CC-6, a one-piece PP dispensing closure suited for food products, such as salad dressings and catsup, as well as for household cleaners.
June 30, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Vend packs turn to new materials for new markets
Designed initially for vending sales, a new material blend permits skin-packed frozen Mini Meals for microwave heating to expand into diverse outlets.
June 30, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Coffee packer finds Virtues in thin film
By downgauging the film by half for foodservice coffee packs, Virtues of Coffee reduces material, energy consumption and labor costs. Structure improves machinability and even puncture-resistance, while maintaining shelf life.
June 30, 1996
Flexible packaging
Preventive medicine for pharmaceutical producer
CPSC regulations caused pharmaceutical manufacturer Chattem, Inc., to update packaging for its menstrual pain relief products. Line changes included a rebuild-instead of a purchase-of a cartoner to help expedite the switch.
June 30, 1996
Converting equipment
Salsa jar sealed 'first class'
Polypropylene replaces glass jar for hot-filled salsa served on Reno Air flights. Special linerless cap holds vacuum, yielding 90-day shelf life.
June 30, 1996
Flexibles
Bowling them over in the produce aisle
The latest innovation from Tanimura & Antle is a line of single-serve fresh-cut salads packed in a thermoformed bowl. Refrigerated shelf life is two weeks.
June 30, 1996
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