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Sustainable Packaging
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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
Food: Page 393
Controls & Machine Components
Aseptic tub filler
Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) has introduced a new Gasti high-speed aseptic tub filler that uses servo-drives for product-specific settings of filling and transport parameters.
February 29, 1996
Flexibles
Ener-G goes glass
Silica-coated polyester in a three-layer pre-made bag gives Ener-G Foods the 12-month shelf life needed to market its dietetic bread products around the world.
February 29, 1996
Flexible packaging
Competition nurtures flexible packaging innovation
Like many movie, television and music awards programs, packaging competitions tend to be judged by "experts" who try to assess how well entries meet a given set of criteria.
February 29, 1996
Flexibles
Will silica coatings become more affordable?
From a relatively inexpensive liquid source, PC Materials extracts silica and chemically bonds it to the surface of polyester to create clear, high-barrier films.
February 29, 1996
Bakery/Snack
Supplier news: Achievements
Milprint, Inc.'s (Oshkosh, WI) Lancaster, PA, facility was awarded the valued supplier award for 1995 from Kellogg's Muncy, PA, bakery.
February 29, 1996
Flexible packaging
Simplified wrapper boosts output
Despite a high-tech wrapping material, Saputo had too many leakers of its block cheese packs. New wrapper greatly improves seals while it boosts line output and slashes changeover time.
February 29, 1996
Flexible packaging
Films let produce breathe comfortably
Passive controlled atmosphere technology that lengthens the shelf life of fresh-cut produce takes many forms, as these three FPA award winners demonstrate.
February 29, 1996
Bakery/Snack
Barking up the wrong trademark
Should a company be able to call its dog biscuits DOGIVA and package them like Godiva chocolates?
February 29, 1996
Flexible packaging
Flexible packaging advances reap rewards
This year's FPA awards recognized converters for packages that permit product viewing--even touching the product--without compromising package integrity. Reclosable and/or stand-up pouches drive into new product categories.
February 29, 1996
Beverage
Countering counterfeiters
Congress wants to toughen criminal and civil penalties against product and package counterfeiting. Today, infrequent prosecutions and soft sentences drive the debate.
February 29, 1996
Flexible packaging
When the package becomes the 'oven'
Designed for the military, a flameless ration heater is now used for a shelf-stable consumer entree that converts the carton into an oven. HeaterMeals packs 'everything but the appetite' into meals for people on the go.
February 29, 1996
Beverage
Norwegian dairy improves shelf life of gabletop for creamer
Unlike their counterparts in the U.S., many European consumers are no strangers to shelf-stable coffee creamers in aseptic bricks, even though that style of package lacks some of the user-friendliness and pouring ease of the gabletop carton.
February 29, 1996
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