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Dairy
FMI study touches on food packaging
Conducted for the Food Marketing Institute by Decision Analyst, Inc., Trends in the United States: Consumer Attitudes & the Supermarket, 2004 focuses primarily on the consumer shopping experience.
August 31, 2004

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Bakery/Snack
Olympic champions appear on Wheaties boxes
General Mills released special-edition Wheaties cereal boxes featuring record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps, gymnastics champion Carly Patterson, and sprinter Justin Gatlin.
July 31, 2004
Beverage
Four elected to Packaging Hall of Fame
Dr. Raymond Bourque, Audrey Marsh King, Stanley Kopecky, and Lawrence Starr will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame during a November 7 awards reception at the Hyatt McCormick Hotel in Chicago. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with Pack Expo International 2004, sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.
July 31, 2004
Beverage
Training for mechanics, technicians, engineers
Worth noting are upcoming training opportunities and newly developed resources for automation professionals and industrial maintenance mechanics.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
OMAC/WBF update
Ongoing efforts to harmonize the standards being developed by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Batch Forum took a significant step forward at an August 17-18 meeting at Pfizer’s Peapack, NJ, facility.
July 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Hartness International launches conveyor company
Hartness International announces the creation of Hartness Conveyor Systems (HCS) LLC.
July 31, 2004
Closures
New PEN bottles in Denmark
Danish Brewery Group (DBG) has launched its Royal Pilsner and Royal Classic beers in new refillable 38-cL bottles of polyethylene napthalate (PEN), made by Rexam Petainer in Lidköping, Sweden.
July 31, 2004
Closures
Closure energizes Olay vitamins
Consumer convenience is behind Pharmavite LLC’s use of Weatherchem’s NutraFlapper® closure for an Olay-brand vitamin supplement line introduced in August ’03.
July 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor
A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.
July 31, 2004
Containers
Table-top bag maker brings savings
A tabletop bag maker installed in late 2002 at Arkwright, Inc., was so effective in reducing wasted packaging materials and wasted time that it paid for itself in two months.
July 31, 2004
Detergents/cleaners
Appliance maker chooses Sonoco as package partner
BSH Home Appliances Corp., Huntington Beach, CA, has entered into a five-year packaging supply agreement with Sonoco. BSH, a joint venture of Robert Bosch and Siemens AG for home appliances, makes premium laundry, cooking and dishwashing appliances for the North American market.
July 31, 2004
Labels
Svelte bottle gets skin-fit labeling
Skin care products specialist Raymond Anthony Intl. (RAI), Costa Mesa, CA, recently upgraded the packaging for its Tanology line of premium indoor tanning lotions in 8-oz high-density polyethylene bottles.
July 31, 2004
Bakery/Snack
Adding security to multiwall bags
Larry Lichter is Director, Commercial Development and Supply Chain for McCormick & Co., Hunts Valley, MD. Here he discusses the development of ShurSealâ„¢, a tamper-evident seal system for multiwall bags, with supplier Exopack LLC.
July 31, 2004
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