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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
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Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Food: Page 389
Flexible packaging
Testing the power of PEN
Tests of hot-filled jam in a jar and pasteurized beer in bottles are among the latest signs that PEN's packaging potential may soon be realized.
June 30, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Brewers getting 'fresh'
BATF weighs brewers' petitions for freshness dating, and considers requiring brewers to disclose corporate names.
June 30, 1996
Converting equipment
Shaping technology injects market excitement in metal cans
Until a couple of years ago, American packagers using cans seemed satisfied with the straight sidewall profile and functionality of most metal cans. The cans were strong, easy to fill and seam, and offered a number of labeling, case packing and stacking options.
June 30, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Film pack launches sub sandwich in Canada
Printed film replaces a manually applied label for Burns Meats' EZee Sub sandwich meat packs, saving 50% in combined material and labor costs.
June 30, 1996
Flexibles
Supplier news: International agreements
A strategic alliance was announced between Robert Bosch in Germany and Elopak a.s. in Norway to launch a new aseptic pouch packaging system for milk and fruit juices.
June 30, 1996
Beverage
Bottle bill expansion likely to make ballot in Oregon
It appears almost certain that proponents of a ballot initiative expanding Oregon's bottle bill will collect enough signatures to get it on the ballot in November.
June 30, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
FDA wants access to claims data for food labeling
FDA wants to change the rules so it is better able to enforce the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act while not impeding the development of new food technologies.
June 30, 1996
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Native American design for salmon
Juneau, Alaska-based Health Sea, Inc., and the Native American community of the Kake Tribal Corp. are counting on package design to successfully launch the Keta(TM) line of 99% fat-free smoked salmon products within four U.S.
June 30, 1996
Closures
Composite canister cuts costs
When a metal can supplier phased out the can sizes used by Beer Nuts, Inc. for its namesake snack, the Bloomington, IL-based snack company turned to composite canisters from Sonoco Products (Hartsville, SC).
June 30, 1996
Dairy
Trilingual label cleans up
Last year, Naperville, IL-based Babson Brothers introduced a line of PRECISE dairy pipeline cleaning tablets. To satisfy its international customers, the firm had to be sure that usage instructions were available in English, Spanish and French.
June 30, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Vertical f/f/s machine for food and nonfood applications
The Butler(TM) 3 is a new vertical form/fill/seal machine from UVA-Butler (Richmond, VA) suited for frozen foods, cereal, pasta, pet food, powders and granulates.
May 31, 1996
Prepared Foods
Mission's on a MissionRIPE mission
A California firm recently installed the first automatic set-up and sealing system for an unusual MAP produce shipper. It provides a three-week refrigerated shelf life for ripe avocados, allowing nationwide distribution.
May 31, 1996
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