Discover your next big idea at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
Experience a breakthrough in packaging & processing and transform your business with solutions from 2,300 suppliers spanning all industries. Click to learn more.
Subscribe
Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Golden Stream adds 'zip' to its bags
To give consumers a sealed and reclosable bag, candy and snack maker Golden Stream adds new compact zipper applicator onto an existing form/fill/seal line. Savings vs preapplied bags and an option to run nonzipper webs keeps company as flexible as its packaging.
March 31, 1995
Food: Page 408
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Dry offset printing reaches eight colors
Brand managers who market their products in plastic cups are no longer limited to six colors now that Polytainers has commercialized an eight-color dry offset printer. Yogurt marketers are clearly impressed.
March 31, 1995
Controls & Machine Components
Converter adds third wicketer for PE bags
Sengewald USA's 140ꯠ-sq-ft Marengo, IL, converting facility has added a third bag wicketer to produce 2- to 4-mil polyethylene bags at rates to 175/min, for food, nonfood and medical packaging applications.
March 31, 1995
Beverage
Coffee can is chock full of convenience.
New York-based Chock full o' Nuts Corp. has incorporated an easy-open ring-pull end on 12-oz cans of its new Cafe Blend line of coffee. Consumer appeal was the main attraction, says the firm's Andrea Bass.
March 31, 1995
Dairy
Hershey tries aseptic milk, too
Aseptically packaged milk has been a supermarket staple in many countries for years. But U.S. consumers have never quite managed to adjust to the flavor change that results from high-heat processing.
March 31, 1995
Flexibles
Dual-compartment yogurts are catching on
First it was TCBY Enterprises with its Twosome line (see PW, November '94, p. 24) of two-compartment yogurts. Now The Dannon Co. has launched a similar line called Double Delights.
March 31, 1995
Controls & Machine Components
Twin-pack carriers
The Slim-line of colored twin-pack carriers from International Omni-pac (Walnut, CA) are designed for easier application and greater holding power. Mainly used for dairy products, they are available in 1/2- and 1-gal sizes.
February 28, 1995
Flexibles
HDPE resin
Quantum Chemical's (Cincinnati, OH) Petrothene® LT 6194-69 HDPE resin for blown film applications has good moisture barrier properties, low taste and odor characteristics and is easy to process.
February 28, 1995
Closures
Coleman saves with performance packaging
In shifting to performance-oriented corrugated packaging for hazardous materials, Coleman found it could save $63ꯠ by reducing specifications on containers of camping fuel.
February 28, 1995
Containers
U.S. packaging rules square with UN recommendations
Performance-oriented packaging regs for hazardous material shipping are more sweeping than simply shifting to United Nations standards. Some changes relating to drum packages are being criticized.
February 28, 1995
Flexibles
Films make foods easier to handle
For applications in foodservice, wholesale, or retail, winners in the 1994 FPA competition show how flexible packs can take on new food packaging tasks.
February 28, 1995
Flexible packaging
Flexibles promote 'enviropackaging'
Refill packs for Tide and Cheer laundry detergent garnered FPA's "Green Globe" award for 1994. Three other FPA winners were also big contributors to source reduction efforts.
February 28, 1995
Prepared Foods
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
American Frozen Food Institute (McLean, VA): McNair Bishop, dir. of government affairs.
February 28, 1995
Previous Page
Page 408 of 482
Next Page
Products
Robotiq Launches PAL Ready and PAL Series and Introduces the Lean Palletizing Experience
Learn about Robotiq's Lean Palletizing Experience, an approach to end-of-line automation that includes the modular and scalable PAL Series, at PACK EXPO Booth SL-11054.
Fat Analysis Systems
Transparent, Heat-sealable Paper
More Products
