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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Cartoning
'Floating pocket' cartoner speeds ice cream novelty output
Ice cream novelty processing/packaging line helps Ingman Foods expand its product offerings in Finland.
March 31, 1996
Food: Page 392
Conveying & accumulation
Fresh seafood takes MAP tack in Sweden
Swedish producer SmgenFisk packs fresh seafood under a modified atmosphere, providing consumers with an alternative to frozen and smoked varieties.
March 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Aseptic system drives gabletop coffee creamer
Norwegian dairy stlandsmeieriet Hedmark Trrmelk is first to use aseptic system to produce 1/4-L gabletops of coffee creamer. New system lengthens shelf life by 50% and triples output of prior extended shelf life equipment.
March 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
interpack 96: more reasons than ever to go
The world's largest packaging trade show, interpack 96 in Dsseldorf, adds more conferences to its May agenda. But new equipment and machinery from around the world is still the big attraction.
March 31, 1996
Closures
New twist on aseptic juice bottling
In France, orange juice joins the ranks of fruit juices aseptically packaged in rigid plastic containers. The six-month shelf life comes with an assist from a layer of EVOH.
March 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
U.K. firm ships Costa Rican fruit via Canadian technology
Unique packaging lets Geest ship fresh-cut pineapplein clear thermoforms to markets not only in the UK but also France and the U.S. Shelf life is 35 days.
March 31, 1996
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
METPACK to 'shape' can packaging
Bigger and more important than three years ago, the Essen, Germany, trade fair includes 150 exhibitors and a full conference program, right before interpack 96.
March 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Meat labeling
According to a recently-released USDA survey, over 92% of retail stores had the required Safe Food Handling Labels on meat and poultry products. Because such labels are mandatory, USDA failed a store if one item within one category was found to lack the appropriate label.
March 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Chicken of the Sea passes muster
San Diego-based Van Camp Seafood's Chicken of The Sea® is believed to be the first tuna brand to be processed within a facility adhering to the federal government's Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points program.
March 31, 1996
Tamper-evident machinery
Kraft rotor closure improves TE
Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield, IL, has improved the tamper evidence of the rotor closure used on its parmesan cheese. The previous closure consisted of a one-piece injection-molded high-density polyethylene rotor atop an aluminum end.
March 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Health claims
Everyone from mom to Uncle Sam urges people to eat more fruits and vegetables as part of a healthful diet. So why did the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allow only raw fruits and vegetables to make a "healthy" claim on food labels?
March 31, 1996
Recycling
U.K. dairy tests Tetra Max
The Plastics Packaging Systems division of Tetra Pak Intl. (Lund, Sweden) was formed last September as part of Tetra's expansion beyond paper, where it has a huge global presence.
March 31, 1996
Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings
Heinz faces underweights
It started with a consumer complaint about an underweight plastic ketchup bottle in northern California. Officials there asked the Office of Weights and Measures at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct a multi-state survey of Heinz ketchup.
March 31, 1996
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