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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Sustainable Packaging
Winners cited by Glass Packaging Institute
An amber soft drink bottle and wide-mouth salsa container earned top honors from the Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) in the seventh annual Clear Choice Awards.
September 30, 1995
Food: Page 401
Dairy
Pack size restrictions dropped
Thanks to a change in the uniform weights and measures regulations for dairy products, processors have new opportunities for marketing their products.
September 30, 1995
Flexibles
Sliced apples get the value-added treatment
Peeled, cored and sliced, fresh Granny Smith apples have joined the growing list of value-added fresh produce items available to consumers at retail.
September 30, 1995
Flexibles
A wedge up on the competition
Cheesy packaging is not necessarily a bad thing. Just ask Jan Berger, president of Chicago-based Turtle Island, Inc., marketer of Just for Joy(TM) cheese-based gourmet soups.
September 30, 1995
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Souprising changes
When Atlanta, GA-based restaurant chain Lettuce Souprise You switched from a paperboard carton to a polystyrene clamshell for its carry-out muffins, it also changed from a 6- or 12-count package down to a 4-count package.
September 30, 1995
Beverage
General Mills is Leader of the Year
The Packaging Education Forum has named General Mills, Inc., its 1995 Packaging Leader of the Year. The Minneapolis-based firm is ranked second worldwide in the cereal market and is well known for brands that include Betty Crocker, Gold Medal, Wheaties and Yoplait.
September 30, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Keeping dirt clean
Bags of premium nursery soils don't sell well when they're dirty or faded. Bandini Fertilizer moves to automatic wrapping of pallet loads with a cover to keep bags-and company image-clean.
August 31, 1995
Converting equipment
Brach's bags a winner with nine-color candy graphics
A 10-station gravure press lets Morrill Press print in nine colors, then laminate that structure to a sealant layer in-line on a single pass for Brach & Brock Confections' chocolate-covered raisins.
August 31, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
Part 2How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)
Purchasers skewer vendors with increasing prices
August 31, 1995
Beverage
Environment-influenced packaging: It ain't over yet (sidebar)
Companies big and small
August 31, 1995
Secondary Packaging
Software proves "bueno" for Mexican food producer
Bueno Foods turns to software to more efficiently pack pouches and cups into corrugated shipping cases, then stack those cases onto a pallet. The result: Lower labor costs, reduced case inventories, and more space in the warehouse.
August 31, 1995
Labeling
FSIS says no to AMI
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) denied a request by the American Meat Institute (AMI) for a blanket 6-month extension of the August 8, 1995, deadline for revising ingredient labeling standards.
August 31, 1995
Coding, Printing & Labeling
How effective is nutrition labeling?
It must depend on who is asked. GMA claims that an "overwhelming majority of consumers" read food labels, and that 63% of consumers find the nutritional information on the label to be "easier to understand." However, a survey by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Prevention Magazine reported that most food shoppers are not familiar with the new nutrition label.
August 31, 1995
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