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Cosmetics/Personal care

Career opportunity: applications engineers

ELAU, the fastest growing supplier of packaging machinery automation, wants to hire the best apps engineers in the business.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

Report ponders plastics pricing issues

Higher feedstock costs and strong export demand drove polyethylene prices up 22¢/lb last year, according to a January 6, 2005 Market Update from The Plastics Exchange.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The Packaging Pushback Club

Among the more regrettable developments in the ongoing saga of RFID implementation is the emergence of what I like to call the Packaging Pushback Club. You know them.

January 31, 2005

Cosmetics/Personal care

User-friendly design

The new Schauma Easy Shine Conditioner range of hair care products is using eye-catching and convenient packs from RPC Verpackungen Kutenholz to help convey and reflect the user-friendly values of the product.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Pop artist does labels

Knightsbridge Fine Wines has signed a licensing agreement with Britto Central for access to certain works by internationally acclaimed pop artist Romero Britto for use on its labels and promotional merchandise.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

No label change, say two juice makers

Coca-Cola North America, manufacturers of Minute Maid orange juice, and Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., rejected a call by the Florida Department of Citrus to change the labeling on packages of “light” orange juice after studies showed consumers were confused about the juice content of the products.

January 31, 2005

Dairy

FDA collecting its own data

FDA notified the Office of Management and Budget that it intends to conduct an experimental study of health claims on food packages.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

The truth, nothing but the truth

The Food and Drug Administration has rejected a request by the soft drink industry that it be allowed to continue to use an “and/or” label when it comes to listing sweeteners on labels.

January 31, 2005

Labels

Uniform compliance date

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has established January 1, 2008, as the uniform compliance date for new food labeling regulations issued between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006.

January 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

The power of numbers, and neighbors

As we struggle to write “2005” instead of “2004” on our checks, I’m struck by how important numbers are to our lives and our jobs.

January 31, 2005

Confection/Candy

Paperboard delivers luxurious appeal to Swiss chocolates

A premium, coated-one-side paperboard material is helping Swiss company Chocolat Frey AG achieve the distinctive, prestigious look it sought for its Superior, Swiss Delice Supreme, and Tastefully Yours private-label chocolate bars.

January 31, 2005