Containers

Compact baggers pack improvements

World Flavors adds new and refurbished vf/f/s units to replace hand-filling operations and simplify changeovers.

April 30, 2004

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Beverage

Printers help bottom line become healthy

Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating, a maker of nutritious meals, replaces preprinted labels with in-house printed labels that reduce cost and waste.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label limbo

Uncertainty over country-of-origin labeling regulations leaves food packagers wondering what’s next.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

Putting a wrap on shelf life

A new USDA-formulated all-fruit bar achieves impressive shelf life thanks in part to its high-barrier wrapper that was initially developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to offer a healthy alternative to traditional military meals.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling updates

Reports on OTC drug labeling, Codex meeting, fighting obesity with labels, and the Senate's passing of an allergen bill.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

Kellogg's tests portable cereal

Talk about dashboard dining. Kellogg’s Drink’N Crunch! portable cereal is packaged in a tapered cup that snaps onto the rim of an outer tapered cup for on-the-go consumption.

April 30, 2004

Dairy

Packaging debut in Spain

With the March launch of the NaturLínea line of premium milk, Central Lechera Asturiana of Ovieda Asturias, Spain, is the first to commercialize the combishape aseptic packaging concept developed by Sig Combibloc.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

Perfect Popper pulls in prizes

Both the President’s and Innovation awards at the 61st National Paperboard Packaging Competition were snagged by the Perfect Popper popcorn box from Family Time Snacks of Valparaiso, IN.

April 30, 2004

Cosmetics/Personal care

China's voracious packaging appetite

To be sure, an alarming number of American manufacturing jobs have gone to plants in China and other offshore locations. Lots of people are wringing their hands over this and, in the case of politicians, trying to develop plans to counter it.

April 30, 2004

Reusable/Returnable

PPC Gold award winners

Following is a list of companies that won Gold Awards at the annual PPC competition.

April 30, 2004

Beverage

Packaging strategies add up on Coca-Cola's bottom line

More often than not, a faxed press release concerning a packager’s financial results ends up in the circular file. Upon further review, however, frequent mentions of packaging in the Coca-Cola Co.’s 16-page, first-quarter earnings-per-share report at least merited a quick read.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC/WBF working session

Two leading manufacturing industry organizations—World Batch Forum and Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group—will hold their first working session May 19 as part of their effort to coordinate their development of manufacturing standards for machine and batch control.

March 31, 2004

Converting equipment

Oil's better in sleeved tottles

Apparently, it’s not enough differentiation if your products contain emu oil. The TanZotic Tanning Products division of Natural Emu Products, Dodge, TX, relies on distinctive packaging for its Xotic Xplosion tanning accelerators.

March 31, 2004