Consumer packaged goods: Page 179

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Mobil Chemical Co.'s Films Div. (Pittsford, NY) will increase its global film metallizing capacity by adding a 3.3-m metallizer in the Belleville, Ontario, Canada, facility of Mobil Chemical Canada Ltd.

July 31, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

New CD case proves sturdier

Record label 32 Records wants to distinguish itself in the industry not only by the jazz artists it carries, but also by using a distinctive case for its CDs.

July 31, 1999

Flexibles

Kal Kan whisks 'Whiskas' pouch

In April, Kal Kan Foods, Inc., launched nationwide eight 3-oz varieties of wet cat food in a retorted laminated foil pouch with a two-year shelf life comparable to its canned pet foods.

July 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Weigher/bagger/labelers shine at Golden Gem

While on-line label printing simplifies inventory, new combination scales and automatic baggers have increased productivity and accuracy for this Florida orange grower.

June 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Food, beverage packaging to star at supermarkets

New packages stand out for major brands like Snapple, Mrs. Butterworth's and Sara Lee at this year's FMI show.

June 30, 1999

Labels

New label doesn't corrode

Aggressive cleaning products and labels often don't mix. Just ask Wayne, NJ-based Castrol. The printing on the surface-printed in-mold label used on 1-gal jugs of its Super Clean(TM) cleaner and degreaser was disintegrating whenever the liquid cleaner dripped over the label.

June 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Print market, technology perspectives

Graphical Arts Technical Foundation forcasts print markets, while a book from the Foundation of Flexographic Technical Assn. reflects recent changes in flexogrphic printing

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nitrate labeling debate

California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) wants a panel of scientific experts to review data on sodium nitrite before listing it as "harmful to consumers" under the State's Proposition 65 chemical warning label law.

June 30, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

Software awards compute well

Packages for driving and flying software win recognition in the third-annual Software Package Awards presented by the Software & Information Industry Assn.

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Brits debate genetic food labeling

The controversy between the U.S. and Europe over whether or not genetically altered foods should be so labeled heated up recently when the British Medical Assn.

June 30, 1999

Flexibles

Eidos plays no games in making package comps

Colorful game box comps produced digitally help Eidos Interactive sell computer games to retail buyers before boxes are created for production.

June 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Tea labels push process printing

Six-color process printing results in deeper colors, higher resolution and more press efficiencies for Hansen's new line of ready-to-drink teas.

June 30, 1999