Flexibles

Pizza dough gets custom gas-valve packaging

Nestlé’s subsidiary Leisi, Wangen, Switzerland, is using model R530 thermoforming machinery, custom-adapted by manufacturer Multivac (www.multivac.de), to package fresh, refrigerated Buitoni-brand rolled pizza dough.

March 8, 2007

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Additives, coatings & inks

And just like that, packaging for irradiation is broadened

There may never have been a technology quite like irradiation of foods and packaging. Legal clearances for its use keep expanding, but commercial acceptance of it doesn’t appear to be keeping pace.

March 8, 2007

Beverage

Why manual palletizing can be more costly than automating

New white paper from FKI Logistex debunks common myths that prevent companies from automating their palletizing operations. Provides criteria to evaluate the true cost of remaining with a manual palletizing operation.

March 8, 2007

Household/Automotive

A role for robots

Senior director of operations Jack vanderDeen of Siptop Packaging talks about robotic solutions implemented recently at Siptop’s Mississauga, Canada, plant (see www.packworld/view-22569).

March 8, 2007

Labeling

'Natural' claims on RTE food packaging

USDA has a beef with some ready-to-eat deli packages. Companies are being forced to ditch “natural” copy on packaging.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Detergents/cleaners

Ecolab's club store cleaner earns NACD award

Ecolab's bundled cleaning package sold at Sam’s wins NACD's top honors for 2007.

March 2, 2007

Protective/transport packaging

Bad packaging: Consumer Reports' 2007 Oyster Awards

The magazine welcomes new inductees into its packaging 'hall of shame' for hard-to-open packaging.

February 28, 2007

Bakery/Snack

GM to promote kids' health issues on its packaging

General Mills will include Ad Council 'Healthy Children' information on 500 million packages this summer.

February 27, 2007

Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

Beverage

Homework and ingenuity produces light-up bottle

Homework and three years’ of globetrotting legwork produces TY KU, a sake liqueur filled in a bottle that lights up whenever it’s lifted.

February 23, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

High-visibility packaging demand climbing

U.S. demand for high-visibility packaging, including clamshells and blister packs, is expected to increase 5.1 percent annually to $8.5 billion in 2010.

February 22, 2007

Beverage

A-B re-embraces teardrop bottles

It's back to the future for Anheuser-Busch's new Michelob bottles debuting now.

February 22, 2007